🔴 Jul 16's Top Cyber News NOW! - Ep 1175

**James McQuiggan** (0:01)
Good morning, everybody. Good afternoon or good evening to everyone who's joining us here today on July 16th, 2026 Now, whether you're here live or watching the recording, we want to thank you for joining us here today on the Daily Cyber Threat Brief on the Simply Cyber Channel. Coming to you live here from the Central Florida Studio. Now today, we're gonna run through the top, well, top, we're gonna run through eight cyber securities of the day. I'm gonna share with you my insights, my perspectives and thoughts about them. So, this is episode number 1175
So get your coffee or your favorite beverage, get comfortable and let's go.
All righty, and we're back. Great introduction there. And of course, I'm not really Gerald Auger, Dr. Gerald Auger. No, I'm James McQuiggan at 35,000 feet, and I'm thrilled to be filling in today for Dr. Auger, who is traveling today, and he graciously asked me to fill in for him, which it's always an honor, it's always a pleasure to be able to chat with all of you, this awesome community that we have out there, the Team Simply Cyber. And if you're not a member of the Team Simply Cyber, that's okay, the part of the squad, not a problem. We are always very excited to have any new members, anybody showing up for the first time. We got a fun way that we like to recognize or call you out, but just to welcome you, because that's the thing about Team Simply Cyber, very welcoming, all about inclusion. Drop a hashtag there in the chat, hashtag first timer. Let us know that this is your first time here, and if it is, I know our whole, our team members have a great little emoji, or emote, or whatever we like to call it, that we have in our trays that recognizes you. It goes along with the John McLean saying, and it's one of my personal favorites, seeing as it was almost 40 years ago yesterday that the Die Hard movie came out. But the welcome to the party, pal.

**Sarah Lane** (2:42)
Welcome to the party, pal.

**James McQuiggan** (2:43)
So if we got any first timers in there, definitely drop it in chat. Be excited to see you join us, excited that we have new folks joining us here today. So give a little love also to the mods that are working backstage that are helping me out, letting me know if things aren't going right. Then again, yesterday was a great example of that. If you happened to catch the show yesterday, we won't say it was a train wreck because train wrecks take a long time to recover. We'll just say it was a bit of a hiccup. But I was able to use my backup system, get back up and running. Now today, I have stress test my studio setup here. We've gone through everything, let it run for hours. It went fine. No lockups, nothing like that. So we should be good for today. Now, you're here, you're looking for some education, looking for some good information overall. And that's great. You know, you're going to get these eight cyber security stories. You're going to get some great insights. Well, hopefully, they're great insights, but insights from me. And that actually goes towards CPEs. If you are a certified member of one of the organizations, ISC2, ISSA, ISACA, insert whatever other association that you might be a part of, that you have to earn those continuing education credits. Well, here at the Daily Cyber Threat Brief, you can get a half CPE for watching the show. Well, that's great. Well, how do I, you know, show that I was here? Well, it's just so handy that Jerry has a page for handling those things where you can actually sign in. If you do the exclamation mark CPE, it'll drop it there in chat. The link, but the link cyberthreatbrief.simplycyber.io/cpewilltake you out here to the website where you can claim a half CPE for attending today's webinar brief essentially. And you basically just drop your name in there, put your email, click a couple checkboxes and click Submit. You will actually get a response back from the web page saying that, yep, we got it. Here it is. Okay, great. So now what? On the first day of every month, Jerry will send out an email to all of you with the listing of all your days that you attended, where you filled out this form. So it's important that you use the same email address, because if you do any variations or different ones, you will get an email for those different variations or different ones. So make sure you use the same email address every day, enter it in there, check the box, and you'll be off and running and get those CPEs, because it makes life a lot easier. And if you think about it, that's 20 CPEs a month, well, 20 episodes a month, average.