🔴 December 20's Top Cyber News NOW! - Ep 265

**Dr. Gerald Auger** (0:00)
Welcome to Simply Cyber.
All right, people.
Good Tuesday morning to y'all. Good to have you here, Team Live. Saw Eric McFarlane catching it live. Alana Duke-Norris, Marcus up in here. Kimberly, the Chiller Instinct Cyber Munchkin.
All the squad members, Matthew Necchi. James Uduk, kudo, good to see you, Greg.
All right, everybody, welcome, welcome, welcome.
Today is Tuesday, December 20th. Welcome to episode 265 of SimplyCyber's Daily Cyber Threat Briefing. I'm your host, Dr. Gerald Auger, and over the next 45 minutes, I'll be delivering the top cybersecurity news stories of the day and providing my expert analysis on each of those stories, on what it means to you as a practitioner, or if you're looking to break in, there's a lot of value here. So please settle in, get ready. We're gonna have a good time. But before we get into the news and all the jaw jacking, I'd love to share the stream sponsors with you, give them the credit that they're due. Great businesses, great people.
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So, consider Recon InfoSec if you're looking for MDR solutions. Now, I want to remind everybody, and did you know, if you hold professional certifications that require CPEs, each episode of the Daily Cyber Threat Briefing, just like the one we're watching right now together, is worth half a CPE, so two and a half a week, 10 a month, they stack. Be sure to document by saying what's up in chat, by saying team live, team replay. Document literally the easiest and I would argue the most enjoyable to get CPEs. Check with the professional certification body. I looked at ISAC and ISC squared and it worked out perfect, so good to go. Those were where I have my certs. Can't let them be the only gamer donating right now. What? Did we just become best friends? Thanks, Gaming with the Cat. Hopefully you could have joined us yesterday when we were cyber gaming on World of Haiku last night. If you're live, love it. I see 79 of you already stacked in here. I'm sure many more of our friends are gonna show up as the show rolls. Thank you for being here. If you're on Team Replay, drop a hashtag Team Replay in the comments. Thanks for catching the stream. I hope you enjoy it. And remember, the audio podcast app of choice, you can listen to Simply Cyber, just the audio, as we pull the audio out of the video right after the show ends and throw it up on the interwebs, and you can pull it down on your audio podcast app of choice. Just search for Simply Cyber in your Spotify, your Apple Podcasts, your whatever, and we're good to go. Cyber Munchkin, drop in love, Super Chat. Did we just become best friends?

**SPEAKER_2** (5:21)
Yep.

**Dr. Gerald Auger** (5:22)
Happy holidays to you, Cyber Munchkin, and I hope your studies are going well. It is good to balance work and play, no doubt.