🔴 Jun 17's Top Cyber News NOW! - Ep 1155

**Dr. Gerald Auger** (0:01)
All right, everybody, welcome to the party. Today is Wednesday, June 17th, 2026 This is Simply Cyber's Daily Cyber Threat Brief Podcast. I'm your host, as always, not always, as most of the time, Dr. Gerald Auger. And we're gonna be covering the top cyber story news of the day. I'll be going through each of those stories, giving additional insights and value, and alongside this amazing group of professionals above my head, which you are part of by being here, whether watching live with us right now or on replay. Getting after it, Team SC. Love it, love it, love it. Get your coffee, get comfortable. I got a full cup right here, piping hot, ready to rock and roll. We're off and running. Let's go do this.
Yes, good morning, everybody. Welcome to the party. Want to say what's up to AA Witherspoon. I see them giving a shout out. A guy named 303, Tom Lavin up in the Buffalo space. Good to see you, Tom. Hopefully you guys are thawing out. Marlon J, Marcus Kyler on the elliptical potentially. Phil Stafford dropping some great news that his first round of product review is complete. Got testimonials and some great action. Way to go, Phil. Ric Flair, there we go. Ric Flair says, woo, Phil.
Guys, super excited. It is Wednesday, but like every single day, we're going to go through the top cyber news stories of the day. We'll go through eight stories. I have not researched or prepped for these stories. I don't know what they are.

**Rich Strafalino** (1:46)
Ain't nobody got time for that.

**Dr. Gerald Auger** (1:48)
And that's okay because, frankly, it's the way the job goes. It's the way each of us as practitioners really do the work. And it would just be disingenuous for me to stack the deck and make it look like I got a big brain when I really don't. We'll go through it. My 20-plus years of experience, I'll dissect the stories. Obviously, you get that main headline and the key salient points for the surface level, but we don't do basic here at Simply Cyber. We go down deep. We go extra.
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