🔴 Jul 23's Top Cyber News NOW! - Ep 1180

**Dr. Gerald Auger** (0:00)
All righty, good morning, everybody. Welcome to the party. Today is Thursday, March, July 23rd, 2026 Welcome to Simply Cyber's Daily Cyber Threat Brief. I'm your host. As always, Dr. Gerald Auger, coming to you live from the Buffer Auger Flow Studio back at the main rig.
You know, we got toothpicks, popsicle sticks, glue sticks, and duct tape, and we managed to get it back together. No promises, though. This thing is like putting a doughnut on your car and driving it down the highway to get to the service station. Okay, so we're going to take it together. Thanks. Shout out to Phil Stafford, who requested manual sound effects. Then all of a sudden, my soundboard gave me an ultimatum. Like you get one sound effect and then the whole show crashes, or you can do manual sound effects. So I don't know if Phil's taken his AI skill set and put it to the dark arts. But if a Gentic AI gremlins are living in my stream deck, Phil, fists to the sky. Guys, you're going to go through the top cyber stories of the day. I'm going to break them down, give you everything you need. You're going to leave, leveled up like a boss, get comfortable, get your coffee. We're off and running.
All right, guys. Loving it, loving it. Thank you all so very much, squad members and community members for letting me know how the audio sounds. It's always reassuring to hear that it's crispy and sounding good. Shout out to James the Quick at 35,000 feet, who dropped in to the...
The music's a little loud. Okay, let's go.
Went down two bars. All right.
All right, guys. Hey, listen. Over the next, I don't know, let's say, hour, we're going to go through the top cyber stories, eight of them, I don't know what they are. Literally, I have no idea what they are because they just got published about five minutes ago.
We'll go through, it doesn't matter what they are. I have the skill, the ability, the knowledge and the passion to handle any story that you throw at me with the goal of giving you the headline and the surface level information, of course, that you'll need. But also taking my 20 plus years of experience and going all the way down the rabbit hole in mining out value for you. Code Brew likes the old whatever this is. It gave me Metal Gear Solid vibes.
Thank you, Code Brew.
The whole idea is this is what cyber practitioners do every day. If you didn't know, if this seems like a foreign concept to you, let me introduce you to reality.
Working in cyber is never-ending, constant development, constant work, it's constantly changing. We are not, you know, like I'm not dogging on plumbers, for example, but like clog drains, a clog drain, a clog drain, right? Like with cyber, threat actors are constantly changing. You know, techniques are constantly changing. Motivations, nation states, geopolitics change. We have a very demanding job and a very demanding career, and part of the way that you stay sharp, right, is to go through the top moves of the day. This is called threat modeling, threat landscaping. All those activities require intelligence in order to be able to do them correctly. It's no different than sharpening the knife guy. If I gave you a brand new knife, you came out of a boot camp or a college course or whatever with a brand new wicked sharp knife, and you could slash and cut and everything. Oh my God, look at this cyber knife. This guy is just crushing it. If you never sharpen that knife, guess what? Four years later, it's like, oh yeah, you're talking about the spoon over down the hall, last cubicle on the left? Yeah, that's not a knife. That's a spoon all day, all right? So you got to stay sharp. All right. Now, in addition to staying sharp, what I love about this show is I qualify as an instructor, qualified instructor, I would argue. And this is an hour long show, so to cut the difference, we say it's a half hour of actual educational content. This episode every single day gives you a CPE, half a CPE, excuse me.
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