🔴 Jul 17's Top Cyber News NOW! - Ep 1176

**Jerry** (0:01)
All right, what's up, everybody? Good morning, welcome to the party. Today is July 17th. It is a Friday. I had a banger of a song intro here. Hold on, let me fix this audio thing. I know you can hear me, but you can't hear the music or anything else because, because live streaming is easy, Marcus Kyler. Hold on one second.
I know you can hear me, but how's that? Yeah, I think you can hear the music now. Look it, ready?
Let me confirm that you can hear that in the old Rick Flair woo, if you will. Guys, welcome to the party. If you are here, you are locked in and ready to just rip it apart on this Friday morning. What's up, party people? This is Simply Cyber's Daily Cyber Threat Brief podcast. I'm your host, two thumbs, all smiles. Haven't even had my first cup of coffee yet, but it's getting real in the studio. Sit in, we're locked in, ready for some top cyber news of the day. I hope you're ready. I sure am. Let's go.
That's right, everybody, and if you're not familiar with the inside joke, if you will, one Marcus Kyler, the same Marcus Kyler in chat right now, a long time, Simply Cyber community member and personal friend spoke at Simply CyberCon 2025, gave a wonderful talk on how to deliver the news, and wanted to break the myth here that this is challenging what I'm doing up here. So he had a slide about how easy it is. So I always tease him, and it's in good spirit. I love my friend Marcus Kyler. Guys, listen, if you're here, then in the next hour, you're going to be delighted and take in on a fantastic ride, ride, slippity slide as we go through the top Cyber's news stories of the day. We're gonna go through eight. I have no idea what they are. I haven't researched or prepped for those stories. I want it to be raw, authentic hot takes as we get them. Plus, ain't nobody got time for that. We can't be faking anything up here. You get the real authentic, non-AI slopped version of the Daily Cyber Threat Brief. If you're here for the first time, welcome to the party, pal.

**Robert** (2:33)
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**Jerry** (2:35)
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This community, this show, this thing we're doing, this collective, we're all about support, we're all about inclusion, we're all about empowerment. And those aren't just three buzzwords that you heard at a company corporate retreat. It's what we live, it's what we breathe, it's what we're doing here. The Daily Cyber Threat Brief is just one of those elements. Now, every single day of the Daily Cyber Threat Brief, we have a special segment. And Fridays has a reverent holded position for this guy, James O'Quiggin at 35,000 feet. He has had it locked in for years with Dad Joke Fridays. This guy, he's texted to me the night before. They were on my phone. I do not look at them. You're gonna, we're gonna go through them together. I'll read them. We'll have a laugh. It's nice to, guys, listen, here's the reality. We work in cybersecurity. It's very serious. The stakes are very high. But if we were serious all the time, we would be like Randall Thor before book 11 You know what I'm saying? There's no spoilers there, but we just be hard all the time, and we would be unpleasant to work with, and our family probably wouldn't like us. So we have to introduce some levity to our world. James O'Quiggin's doing his part with his dad joke. Stay tuned for that at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time later today.