🔴 Jun 26's Top Cyber News NOW! - Ep 1162

**Daniel Lowry** (0:01)
Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining me today. This lovely Friday morning, that is June the 26th of 2026 This is the Daily Cyber Threat Brief. Here, we're gonna go over all the hot security topics of the day. Hopefully, you are ready to go, because we're about to blow your minds. So strap your helmet on and let's get cracking.

**Steve Prentice** (0:21)
See you soon.

**Daniel Lowry** (0:45)
Well, good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Daily Cyber Threat Brief from Simply Cyber. As you can tell, all week long, it has not been Jerry. It has been me, your lovely host, Daniel Lowry. I call myself lovely, and that's just a thing I say. It doesn't actually mean that I believe it. Oh, I've got a voice for, a face for radio, don't I?
I'm glad to see everybody today, because guess what? Today is episode 1,162.
We keep the trainer rolling. Jerry's just going to have it. By the end of the Daily Cyber Threat Brief, when there's just skeletons of skyscrapers hanging around, and there's but five people left on earth, Jerry will have racked up about, what? 32,671 Daily Cyber Threat Briefs. He'll put it on. He'll be the one that's still there doing the Daily Cyber Threat Brief. But this is going to be a lot of fun today, because let's see here, what do we got to do? Well, we like to start off the show with letting you know if you are new, if this is your first time at the show. Well, one little thing we like to do for you is have you put a hashtag first timer in the chats, because when you do that, we can then say, hey, how's it going? Give you a proper warm welcome to the show because we enjoy all the new folks that are out there. I think Jerry was mentioning this the other morning. We have seen a bit of people dwindling. The numbers have calmed down. I think people think, you know what, maybe cyber is too hard to get into. Maybe it's just too much. It seems to be a bit of a shi-taki show over there. It can be, not going to lie, but guess what? It's still pretty dang fun. And that's why we all get in here and do this. So we got to spread the gospel, kids. You got to tell your friends, you know what? A lot of people have asked cyber, now's a good time to bring a little butt back in and have some fun. At least you don't have to make it your job necessarily. You can just enjoy it because the last time I checked, which is why I still do this, it is fun. All right, so if you got that hashtag first time out there, chat, make sure you give them a warm welcome when you see that. We do enjoy the new folks out there. All right, moving on, we have CPEs to get to. That's right. Do not forget that when you watch the Daily Cyber Threat Brief, you earn yourself a CPE. You're like, what's that for? Well, that's cool. Like if you get yourself a certification and to maintain that certification or some sort of official standing with some governing body, CPEs can be very, very useful for making that happen. They necessarily require it actually, and watching the show earns you one. If you go to cyberthreatbrief.simplycyber.io, you'll find at the top of that page right here, it says, CPE. Bing, click that, and from there you can see, this is how you claim your CPEs, and you earn 0.5 CPEs for every episode of the Daily Cyber Threat Brief that you watch. So this is a really great resource. Don't forget about it. Don't sleep on it. If you need CPEs, this is literally the easy button for collecting them. So it doesn't cost you a dime other than to sit here and listen. It's time and effort. Put it on the background, collect your CPE when you're done, drop a comment in the chat and it verifies that you were actually there because you're in the chat history. I like gaming the system, so why not you as well? What else do we need to talk about today?
I think we're pretty good. It's about time to get to the news.
We've done the intro.
I've got my list. I got Jerry does the stuff on top of his head. I got to keep a little laundry list here for the intro. We've talked about today's show, what number it is.
Well, if you're unfamiliar with the Daily Cyber Threat Brief, the thing we do here is we get into the cybersecurity topics of the day. Thanks to the CISO series, we go to the CISO series and we crank through every one of those topics. We talk about them, give you the insights that I have based off of my experience, the last 20 some odd years in cyber and IT.