🔴 Jun 11's Top Cyber News NOW! - Ep 1151

**Dr. Gerald Auger** (0:01)
All right, good morning, everybody. Just realizing I should have checked my microphone before going live. I've been sitting here for like two minutes hanging out with everybody, and then realized immediately, I'm an idiot. Here we go.
Good morning, everyone.
Let's see how that works. Guys, if you can get me a mic check, audio check. I can't believe I just did that. Oh my God. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the party. Today is June 11th, 2026 This summer is flying by. This is Simply Cyber's Daily Cyber Threat Brief, and I'm going to be bringing you the top cyber news stories of the day. If you'd like to engage with community, get insights and value from the show to help you along your career professionally. That's what we're doing every single day here. I want to say welcome to the party, pal. Coming to you live from the Mobile Studio here in Western Georgia. Sit back, relax, get that coffee. I got two cups, my standard issue, and we're off and running.
All right, good morning, everybody. Welcome to the party. Thanks for the shout out in the chat. A lot of great people in chat, a lot of squad members. I was saying hi, spending some time in there before the morning started. I wanna say what's up to Toasty Pops, Kansas City's own. Toasty Pops, I was talking to somebody in Las Vegas who was turning me on to the Kansas City security scene is actually quite lively and thriving. SecKC, I think is the community of the meetup.
Worth, that's a banger out there. Someone was telling me about that. You're the first person that came to mind. Shout out to Sunny Allen who's learned so much this last month here. Welcome to the party. That's what we do here.
Love, deliver and value so much guys. Listen, let me go through the intro of the show. Welcome to the show. We're going to go through eight stories. I've researched and prepped for none of them because I want to give you off rugged raw hot takes on my thoughts around this industry. My name is Dr. Gerald Auger. I've spent many, many decades, frankly, studying, learning, loving, hugging, kissing cybersecurity. I love cybersecurity. I love touching it. What is touching? I like to invent new verbs over here as well. I love teaching it. I love talking about it. I love educating. I love helping. I love being mentored. I love mentoring. All things cybersecurity and my goal with this show is to not only keep you up to date so you can be a better practitioner and interviewed better, but also to provide community inclusion, support, empowerment for everybody in here. So if you're down with that, get in here. You are part of the crew. Now, if you are a...

**Sarah Lane** (3:11)
Here.

**Dr. Gerald Auger** (3:13)
No, no, I still got the spicy. Spicy!
Hey, listen, if you're here for the first time, welcome to the party. I do appreciate it. I haven't seen too many first timers this week. It can be a little off putting the mobile studio here in Western Georgia. The lights are a little creepy. I feel like this is like my Crypt Keeper October special. Like, I come up from the coffin to start the show, but it is what it is. We try to make the best of what we have available to us. And honestly, that's a lesson learned for everybody. Business continuity, it doesn't have to be pretty, 80%, 70% of operational capacity is fine, as long as you're continuing to deliver on the critical mission of whatever your business is. And that's what we're doing here at Simply Cyber. So, first timers drop a hashtag, first timer in chat, if you will. What's up Boss Finale, good to go. Drop a hashtag, first timer in chat. And just to have some fun guys, drop a hashtag, long timer, if you've been here for a minute.
Jazzy Jazz loves the show. Thanks so much. Appreciate it, Jazzy Jazz. Ric Flair loves the show too. Long timers, first timers, everybody is welcome, all the timers. Guys, every single episode of the Daily Cyber Threat Brief is worth half a CPE. I do want to say there was a request from Team Replay to have this link put in the show description. Several of the shows were already pre-scheduled as we have to do for this program. But any new shows coming out, I've talked to Kimberly. Kimberly does the scheduling. She will be adding the hyperlink to this. So if you're on Replay, if you've been looking for this, please look in the description below for the CPEs you can. James Aquigin, James Aquigin at 35,000 feet with the five gifted subs. What? Did we just become best friends, James? Be up. Definitely appreciate James Aquigin. And if you're one of the five people who just picked up gifted subs, giddy up on that. In fact, well, let me finish the CPE. Go to cyberthreatbrief.simplycyber.io/cpe.