๐Ÿ”ด Jul 22's Top Cyber News NOW! - Ep 1179 artwork

๐Ÿ”ด Jul 22's Top Cyber News NOW! - Ep 1179

Daily Cyber Threat Brief

July 22, 2026

The stories that matter most to #cybersecurity insiders, analysts, and business leaders. Delivered every day. Get your CPEs: https://cyberthreatbrief.simplycyber.io/cpe Stop ransomware without the hassle.
Speakers: Dr. Gerald Auger
**Dr. Gerald Auger** (0:01)
All right, what's up, everybody? Give me a second. I don't even know if you can hear me. I don't know if you can see me. Everything's a hot mess for various reasons. Give me a second. Figured I'd go live, though, just to...
Of course.
One sec. Can you even hear me? Hold on one second. This is like a mess. All right. Yeah, that's definitely right. I don't even have audio up. So what's up, everybody? I can't see you. I don't know if you can hear me, but the deal is this is Simply Cyber's Daily Cyber Threat Brief podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Gerald Auger, and we're working through an issue right now because I bought a brand new mouse, everybody. Feel good about that. And about five... I got in the studio early, got it all going, and about sipping coffee, about five seconds before the show starts, I bust out the new mouse and move my soundboard, my mixing board, about four inches or one inch, and the frigging thing just cooks. It cooks about 30 seconds before go live. So now, what you're seeing me do here is get the show set up on my laptop. So this is like my Uber business continuity plan because my backup mixing board is my business continuity plan. So just bear with me for a hot second, please. I didn't want to leave you guys hanging though, you know what I mean? Hold on.
Where's my camera guy? All right, hold on.
Okay.
Who's jumping in the studio here? Who's this? James McQuiggan. All right, James. Good to see you. All right. We can even go with the old really terrible camera angle for now.
I can't hear anything if you're trying to talk to me, James. Hey, thanks Phil Stafford. Let me say what's up. I guess we're just going to have an unusual episode today as I sort through this.
James, I can see your face, bud. Are you wanting to go live or not go live? You want to handle the show?
I can only see head nods. OK, he said one second. Dude, so let me tell you, I bought this one. I ended up getting the Logitech MX4 in white because I own it in black. It has nothing to do with my mixing board fiasco, but it is what it is. All right, USB video. There we go. Look at this. It's getting tighter. It's getting hot in here. All right. So we got that. We got that. We got this. James might spend all this time getting in here and then not have to do the show. All right. Look at this. Oh, whoa. Somebody hold me. Hold me back. Oh, hold on. I got to do that. I don't have a stream deck. Let me plug my stream deck in. No, you guys, if you don't if you don't think the value of a stream deck.
Is awesome. You are missing out on life. I love the stream deck. Sorry, Space Talkers, I know you like manual sound effects. This is that my travel stream deck, right? As it were. And then let's do, I guess let's try this.
All right. What's the hand gestures?
You actually have perms so you can chat. So one thing that sucks, I noticed today, CSO series put 10 stories in, which is I don't know why it angers me, but it angers me. So we're not going to be doing all 10 stories. That's preposterous. So we're not going to do that. What do we got here, James? I was trying to set up his audio. No big deal. All right. So how's everyone doing? Hope everyone's well. It is Wednesday, which means it's hump day, which means it's way back Wednesday, which means we're going to do a little bit of a throwback tech. If you've been paying attention, you'll know what today's throwback tech is. It's actually a tie-in to something that happened earlier in the week or happened last week. Had to do with the...
I don't know. I made a reference. I forget. All right. So stream deck's up. Let's see if I can change screen scenes. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. That's buttery smooth, everybody. That's feeling nice. All right. Now let's see if we can do audio.
You guys can hear me, which is good. All right. Hold on one second, bro. So this is Marcus Kyler. It is easy. I don't know why I'm having so much problems, my guy. All right. Here we go. Yeah. Head text 100 percent, right? All right. So what else? Okay. Let me just check my audio and see if I can hear on Spotify.

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