🔴 Jun 16's Top Cyber News NOW! - Ep 1154

**Dr. Gerald Auger** (0:01)
What's up, everybody? Good morning, welcome to the party. Today is Tuesday, second Monday, if you're Luke Canfield, June 16th, 2026 Welcome to 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 here in the Lowcountry. If you're looking to stay current on the top cyber news stories of the day while engaging with an amazing community from the East Coast to the Left Coast, people going to bed at 9, people going to bed at 930, wherever you are, whatever you're doing, you're with the Simply Cyber community and you're in for a treat. So get your coffee, get settled in. We got a great show for you. Let's go tear the top of the cyber news off.
Good morning, everybody. Delicious cup of coffee. I am super jacked. I got the whole French press right here in studio with me. I just took my first sip during that little stinger video.
So yeah, the coffee hasn't taken effect yet, so I might be operating at about 70% capacity, but that's gonna change throughout the show. If you're a long timer here, you know, as the fuel starts going, it's kind of like a spaceship taking off. Like, you know, you get the initial boosters and the thing isn't moving, then all of a sudden, it starts lifting off. And then by the time you reach, you know, just north of the atmosphere, I'm going about 12,000 miles an hour and it's awesome. Love it, love it, love it, love it. Let's go. Guys, as I mentioned in the intro, we're gonna go through the top cyber news stories of the day. There's eight stories. I have not researched or prepped for any of them. I have no idea what they're gonna be. That's okay, because I've got 20 plus years of experience and just an absolute insatiable appetite for all things cyber, which means I'm gonna be able to take that news story, of course, deliver you the surface level headline and salient details, but then go beyond the headline, give editorial feedback, give insights. I'm an educator. I work at the Citadel Military Colleges in the Cyber Sciences Department. I love educating. I love helping people level up. That's how I measure success, is by how much other people level up from being engaged with Simply Cyber. So, as I mentioned, I'm a big fan of the program. Award-winning, I might add, Saiyan's Podcast of the Year for our efforts in what we're doing here. So, I hope you get value. If you're here for the first time and you're like, wow, this sounds like a lot, what's this guy up to? Welcome to the party, first of all.
Oh my God, the sound effects are not even, I can't even hear the audio of the sound effects. Can you guys hear the audio? I'm gonna mute the music.
I mean, it's very low, but I want you to know that you are welcome here, you first timers. If you can, take a leap of faith. Be like Yenia Jones in The Last Crusade when he steps on that invisible bridge. Spoiler alert, I know, Jesus, but come on. I feel like at this point, stature limitations on that movie's spoilers has expired. Say what's up in chat, you first timers. Hashtag first timer in chat. Hashtag first timer in chat. Why a hashtag first timer in chat? Very simple. There's hundreds of people right above my head right now. And we all, we all love welcoming people. Every one of us was a first timer at some point and got the embrace, got the group hug. Don't be shy. I'm telling you, it benefits you professionally. This isn't a threat. This isn't fear, uncertainty, and doubt. I'm telling you definitively, relationships and networks are going to be just as valuable as your technical skills. It's awesome that you can, you know, program, you can configure a Cisco routing device with a blindfold on to work in a very complicated environment. That is incredibly awesome. If nobody knows that you can do that, you're going to have a tough time finding a job. That's what's up. So I'm trying to help you with that part of it. So drop a hashtag first timer and for and squad members, simply cyber community members. If you see a first timer, let me know. Space Taco's got an interview. I think it's at 10 a.m. Eastern today.
So everybody, let's collectively send Space Taco's good vibes. This just this interview has been in the works for a couple weeks at least. Guys, every single episode of the Daily Cyber Threat Brief is worth half a CPE.