🔴 Jul 28's Top Cyber News NOW! - Ep 1183

**Dr. Gerald Auger** (0:01)
All right, what's up, everybody? Welcome to the party. Today is Tuesday, July 28th, 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. Thanks for being here. If you're looking to stay current on the top cyber news stories, while getting deeper insights, leveling up your career, and just hanging with like-minded, supportive professionals, you're in the right place. Get your coffee and let's get cooking.
All right. Good morning, everybody. Welcome. I hope everybody had a wonderful Monday. We're off and running on this Tuesday. The week is in full tilt.
As I said in the intro, guys, we're going to go through eight stories today. They're all curated and ready. I don't know what they're going to be. I don't research or prep the show or the stories, because I want to give you my authentic, real reaction, real emotion, and real hot takes on these particular stories and give you those insights. We will give you the headline and the surface level story as you would get with any RSS feed newsletter or, you know, slash dot website. But what we do here that's particularly special is we go beyond those headlines. We dig deeper. We give you insights and value that you wouldn't get from a classroom or a textbook. You get it from people who sat in the chair, myself with 20 plus years of experience and a lot of education, as well as the Simply Cyber community that is composed of a very diverse, a very eclectic, and a very, just really powerful community of cyber professionals. Dan Reardon in the sock chair, DJ Beseck in the networking chair, Marcus Kyler, Space Tacos, GRC Action.
Ad Tech as a solo operator doing all the things IT and cyber. Code Brew bringing the heat. Deb and Grady on the government side. Guys, whatever it is, we've got people in the community who have done it and can help you and want to help you level up. And by the way, this isn't just helping people who are looking to break in. If you're a director of IT, if you're a CISO, guess what? There's all sorts of value to be had for you. We have what I would consider one of the best, most diverse communities in cybersecurity, so let's giddy up on that. Now, I want you to know that every single episode of the Daily Cyber Threat Brief, because we go through the top stories, I lead the webinar. It's a threat intelligence briefing if you boil it all the way down.
Every episode is worth half a CPE. Now, the math is it's one hour, one CPE, but we have a good time. We goof around a little bit.
We do a little Ric Flair wooing, right? So we say it's a half a CPE, so we don't have to argue with anybody.
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Across the top, you'll see CPE. This is the official website of the Daily Cyber Threat Brief. By the way, if you ever miss an episode, you can come back. All the episodes are captured here, and I want you to know that I dynamically, using AI, update the show notes after the show ends, and cover each story, what happened and why it matters and what to do, as well as key takeaways. So there's value if you only got a minute, and you really don't have time to consume the whole show, but you do want these insights, check out the show's official website, because I basically programmed AI to do this for me, and it's pretty powerful stuff. I love it. And it's all taken directly from the transcript of the show itself.
Go to the CPE page, put in your name, email address. You can see that it's for July 28th, episode 1183 That's today's episode. This will turn over tomorrow at 8 a.m., July 29th. So you only have 24 hours to capture your CPEs for this. On Saturday, I'll email you the first of the month, every month. I'll email you with a collection of all the CPEs you earn for the month of July, and a cool little snazzy PDF you can download with all the information, including my name and sign off and all that stuff, so it's official. Get your CPEs. Listen, you're already here. You might as well grab them. All you have to do is type in your name. I do the hard work. Very easy stuff. I love it. If you're here for the first time, I want to say welcome to the party, pal.
I hope you are in good spirits, and I hope you enjoy the show. We do ask one thing of our first timers. If you could, drop a hashtag first timer in chat. We do it for a couple of reasons, guys. This industry, it's vitally important in 2026 to network, build relationships, engage with others. If you think that we work in a meritocracy, you are gravely mistaken and someone has lied to you. We do not. You do have to be able to do the job, but the top person being able to do the job is not always the one who gets the job. It's the group of people who can do the job and then what the relationships and networks are. That is why I demand, I guess, frankly, strongly implore you. If you're here for the first time, drop the hashtag first timer. If you're here a lot and you just never chat, please, I can't make you type on your phone or on your keyboard, but I'm telling you the value is there. You just have to seize it. Drop a hashtag first timer and chat, and we will welcome you as a community with the John McClain from Die Hard. Welcome to the party, pal. Such a good movie. Screaming out the window at Nakatomi Plaza. Welcome to the party, pal.