🔴 Jul 8's Top Cyber News NOW! - Ep 1169

**Dr. Gerald Auger** (0:02)
What's up, everybody? Welcome to the party. Today is Wednesday, July 8th, 2026 This is episode 1169, yeet, of Simply Cyber's Daily Cyber Threat Brief Podcast. I'm your host, as always, Dr. Gerald Auger, coming into you live from the New England studios. We got a great show for you. If you're looking to stay current on the top cyber news stories of the day while following, not following, while engaging and following the path of networking within the cybersecurity community, you're in the right place. Get your coffee, get comfortable, my friends, because we're off and running on this beautiful Wednesday morning.
All right, all right, what's up? Jonathan Bailey just passed his Comtia Sec Plus X yesterday. I don't know if it's Sec Plus or Sec X, maybe they re-branded it and I missed that. But either way, Jonathan Bailey, longtime squad member and also Sec X CERD holder.
Way to go, dude, straight crushing it like an absolute boss. Guys, this is the Daily Cyber Threat Brief. We're gonna go through eight stories over the next hour. The top cyber stories in our, you know, today basically, because it's vitally important to stay current on the top cyber news stories of the day. If you want to be an effective practitioner, get leveled up, get those bonuses, get those pay raises, be able to switch jobs like, you know, no big deal. Staying current is one of those kind of implicit, unspoken techniques that are just gonna serve you well. So that's why I started the Daily Cyber Threat Brief, to be able to deliver this to you in a nice, packaged, easy to deliver way. This is basically like, you know those, those like ready to go meals that you can get, like you go on an airplane, you like rip the plastic off, and there's like cheese, nuts and crackers, maybe a grape. That's the Daily Cyber Threat Brief, where a nice little packaged, num num num num num, cyber news of the day. Now listen, you can get an email with the top cyber story of the day, right? Like all kind of like packaged for you, and you read it or whatever, but you know what you're going to get there. You're going to get the headline. Maybe you're going to get like a sentence or two on like what's the story about, but you're not going to go deep or you're not going to go beyond that. So that's part of the value prop here is my 20 plus years of experience, the Simply Cyber community, just so many of them in chat right now with tons of experience across different dimensions of our industry, offering their thoughts and deeper analysis on each of these stories. And that, my friend, is the secret sauce on what makes this show so friggin awesome. So definitely take advantage of that. Of course, of the eight stories I've researched and prepped for Zero Goose Egg, ain't nobody got time for that, for reals, for reals. What's up, neckbeard? Good to see you, John. Mondo Avila is in the house. Steve Young up in the Great North. Christopher K. Hall dropping it. I saw Chris K. Hall with either GitHub or Medium Post or something in the Discord server yesterday. Team Solo Operators, AdTech at the ready there.
Love it. All right, dudes.
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By the way, in case you were trying to like think I was trying to trick you or something, one, this is absolutely free. You can attend this show for free. You can get these CPEs for free. We're not trying to goose you here. Number two, your e-mail that you drop in here, it's not going into some type of like Salesforce HubSpot thing where you're going to get 1,000 emails from me. I'm literally doing it so I can e-mail you your certificate of attendance, period, full stop. Giddy up on that. Now, I do want to tell everybody just as a quick programming note or whatever. I migrated my backend infrastructure. Behave, Jerry.