🔴 Jul 14's Top Cyber News NOW! - Ep 1173

**Dr. Gerald Auger** (0:01)
All right, what's up, everybody? Welcome to the party. Today is Tuesday, July 14th, 2026 This is episode 1173 of your Simply Cyber Daily Cyber Threat Brief Podcast. I'm your host, as always, Dr. Gerald Auger, coming to you live from the New England studios. If you're ready to rock, lock in and get the top cyber news stories of the day while having a scoop of community and all about good times, well, then you're in the right place. So settle in, get your coffee. We're off and running as we tear apart the top cyber news stories of the day. Getting you ready to deliver cyber risk reduction for your business stakeholders. Hold on, we're about to launch.
That's right, everybody, good morning. I hope you had a lovely Monday. We're off and running on this gorgeous Tuesday. Here in the, well, not the Lowcountry. I'm so used to saying the Lowcountry, honestly. Guys, over the next hour, we're gonna go through eight of the top cyber news stories of the day. This is a Threat Brief led by me, so I'm gonna go through the stories, give you the headline, give you the, I guess, the surface level information that you need to be able to kind of chat the water cooler, but then the value prop of this show is to go deeper, go beyond the headlines, give you insights and value from my 20 plus years of industry experience alongside many Simply Cyber community members directly above my head. That's why it's on stream. Make it available for those on replay watching, make it available for everyone to be able to benefit from this community's contributions. I love it. I want you to know of the eight stories that I have researched and prepped for none of them. A big fat goose egg because ain't nobody got time for that. And honestly, that's kind of how we how we roll here in cyber security. If the camera wasn't on, I'd still be doing this. I just wouldn't be yelling at a camera lens. You know what I'm saying? So, hey, if you're here for the first time, I want to say welcome to the party, pal.
Don't be shy. Say what's up in chat hashtag first timer if you want. Whoa, Space Tacos, Lurker Mode activated right out the gate. Ninja in the house. So, yeah, first timers, guys, I got to tell you it is critically important in the current marketplace to have relationships, to have network, to have basically social when it comes to working in cyber. And this is a great place to, I guess, begin that journey. So drop a hashtag first timer in chat. I imagine we're going to have some new people coming in the next couple of weeks. I just released a new video on Simply Cyber YouTube channel yesterday right here. GRC was Zero Tech. A lot of people check that out. I appreciate the people who are leaving comments. It is a brand new format of video style. And if I'm being real with you, it's incredibly easy to film. So I can make a lot of these. So if people like that style of video, let me know, because it's very complimentary to my workflows. And I'd love to make a bunch of videos only if it delivers value. So up, down, left, right. Oh my god, the Konami code. First timer, welcome to the party, up, down, left, right.
And hey, up, down, left, right, I just want you to know, hopefully you're familiar with Die Hard, the 1988 classic starring Bruce Willis, where he stares out the window and says, welcome to the party, pal. That's the emote in chat that you can see right now that the Simply Cyber Squad members are raining down on you. Thank you so much for letting us know it's your first time. Since it is your first time, let me show you something that you may not know. Every single episode of the Daily Cyber Threat Brief, what, hold on, every single episode of the Daily Cyber Threat Brief is worth half the CPE. So if you carry a cybersecurity certification, you definitely have to maintain CPEs. There is a very strong chance that this show qualifies for those continuing professional education credits. So what do you do? You go to cyberthreatbrief.simplycyber.io, you click on the CPE at the top, you'll be presented this page asking you to claim your half a CPE for attending this brief today. You can see it's got today's date, episode 1173 You just put your full name there, your email address. The name is because it goes on the certificate. The email address is so I can email you. The checkboxes are just for ethical reasons. You verify your human and ciment attestation and on the first of the month, August 1st, I'll email you for all of the shows that you attended in July in one snazzy PDF. Very simple, very clean. Let me do it.