🔴 Jul 27's Top Cyber News NOW! - Ep 1182

**Dr. Gerald Auger** (0:01)
What's up, everybody? Good morning, welcome to the party. Today is Monday, July 27th, 2026 This is Simply Cyber's Daily Cyber Threat Brief Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Gerald Auger, coming to you live from the Buffer Auger Flow Studio. If you're looking to stay current on the top cyber news stories of the day while engaging with like-minded professionals from entry level to the CISO, well, then you're in the right place because we're going to go through it. We're all about inclusion, support and empowerment and getting you ready for your day in the cyber world. Get your coffee, get ready. We're off and running on this beautiful Monday morning.
What's up, everybody? Welcome, welcome, welcome. That's right, this is Daily Cyber Threat Brief over next hour. We're going to go through the eight top cyber stories of the day. We'll give you the headline and the highest surface level information that you need in order to understand what's going on. And then as a value proposition for this show, I take my 20 plus years of experience alongside many Simply Cyber community members who are appearing live directly above my head in the chat. And we give you additional insights, value, things that you wouldn't get from the headlines. You'd only get them from sitting in the chair, that's what we do here every single day. This is episode, you know, 1000 and close to 200 Let me see really quickly. I think I have it up here. No, that's CTI SummerSlam. My guy, where? Oh, here it is. Let's see what today's episode is. 1182 So we've been doing it for four plus years now, just straight crushing like a bunch of bosses. I want to say what's up to the squad members and to the Simply Cyber community. Ad Tech, Phil Stafford, Marcus Kyler, Nerman, my guy, Nerman.
Good to see you in chat, Nerman.
So we do it as a crew, we do it as a group, and it's all about good times. Now, if you're here for the first time, I'd like to welcome you personally. Welcome to the party, pal. Hope you have a great experience. Whoever told you about this, holler at that person. They know what's going on. They know the score. But let us know that it's your first time with that hashtag first timer in chat.
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Now, every single day of the week has a special segment. And Mondays is Simply Cyber's Community Member of the Week, sponsored by ThreatLocker. ThreatLocker recognizes that it takes a village just like it takes holistic cybersecurity and they choose application deny by default approaches. We recognize one of our own. I believe this member is in the chat right now, so we're going to get some recognition. I just love recognizing members of the community for their contributions and efforts. Also, because it's a sponsored segment, hey girl, hey, I get to throw a $100 Amazon gift card at that Simply Cyber community member. We've been doing this for years. I probably, this isn't even an exaggeration. I've given out over $10,000 in gift cards and merch since we started this program. So shout out to all you all and thank you, ThreatLocker for allowing me to give money away.