The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) proposed policy statement puts a new consumer-protection frame around AI model behavior: if an AI company represents that its system is designed to deliver accurate, objective, or user-directed outputs, the company may create a reasonable
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Privacy Tip #498 – ShinyHunters Hits Medtronic
Threat group ShinyHunters continues its incessant campaign to torture companies trying to provide products and services to consumers, with no indication of letting up.
One of its latest victims, Medtronic, the manufacturer of medical devices, healthcare technologies, and therapies, confirmed
Threat Actors Using FIFA Spoofed Websites to Launch Attacks
The FBI and the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has issued a public service announcement warning the public about a surge in malicious spoofed websites related to the FIFA games. Cybercriminals are using these fake sites to impersonate FIFA, tricking
Message Received: PA Courts Say TCPA Do-Not-Call Rules Apply to Text Messages
On June 17, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania denied Brown-Daub Chevrolet of Nazareth’s motion to dismiss a putative class action alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s (TCPA) National Do Not Call Registry
Another CIPA Warning Shot: DraftKings Sued Over Website Tracking Tools
DraftKings is the latest target in California’s wave of California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) website-tracking litigation. In Hughes v. DraftKings Inc., filed in the Central District of California, plaintiff Dana Hughes alleges that DraftKings operated its website with data broker software from
Five Eyes Issue “Call to Action” to Protect Against AI Cyber Threats
The leaders of the Five Eyes cyber security agencies, representing Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, issued an alert on June 22, 2026, entitled “The AI Shift in Cyber Risk: Why Leaders Must Act Now”
AI in Insurance: The Real Test Is Readiness, Not Technology
After several years of experimenting with generative AI, machine learning, and AI agents, many insurers are no longer asking whether AI belongs in the business. The harder question is whether a pilot is ready to scale. The answer usually is
Privacy Tip #497 – LastPass Security Incident Raises Concern for Targeted Phishing Attacks
LastPass has confirmed that a security incident with a vendor, a third-party market intelligence platform “which integrates with our Salesforce and Gong systems” has compromised some customers information. As a result, the threat actor was able to use credentials to
Darktrace Report Highlights Cyber Threats Against Global Sporting Sector
In a recently released report titled Cybersecurity in Global Sport: Threats, Signals, and Strategic Implications for a Digitized Industry, cybersecurity firm Darktrace has outlined “the current challenges the global sporting sector faces and…forward-looking views on future challenges as AI
ShinyHunters Targeting Higher Education Sector
Researchers from Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group are warning the higher education sector, including universities, that ShinyHunters has exploited an Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day vulnerability and has “potentially infiltrated the networks of more than 100 organizations in an attack spree