🔴 Jun 2’s Top Cyber News NOW! - Ep 1144

**Dr. Gerald Auger** (0:01)
All right, good morning, everybody. Welcome to the party.
Today is June 2nd, it's Tuesday, 2026 This is Simply Cyber's Daily Cyber Threat Brief Podcast. I am your host, Dr. Gerald Auger. Coming to you with all sorts of washed out here in Las Vegas at Cisco Live. Coming to you live from the Mobile Studio. If you're looking to stay current on top Cyber News stories of the day, while being entertained, educated and leveling up as an absolute community of bosses, well then you're in the right place. Get your coffee. I've got mine in my travel sippy cup. And let's get to work, shall we?
All right, everybody. Welcome to the party. Hopefully, the audio sounds good. I'm making some assumptions here. Kind of flying a little, a little nakey, nakey, if you will, proverbially speaking. Guys, good morning. I want to say what's up to the squad here. I see Nerman and TJ, Marcus Kyler, Mr. Buddha. Saw Mary Ellen Kennel sighting in there. So good morning, Mary Ellen. Hope everything's well in your world. Guys, as I said, we're gonna go through eight stories, top cyber news. I'm going to give you the surface level breakdown of those stories, of course, which will give you all the things you need to get into it. And then my favorite part in the proposition I make to you of why you should show up here and hang out with me every single day, is that I'm going to go beyond those headlines. I'm going to dig in. I'm going to give you additional insights. I'm going to give you value that you might not get anywhere else based on my 20 years of experience, based on just my pure passion and love for this industry. And ultimately, my entire goal is for you to be empowered, to take your career wherever you want, to crush it however you want.
And basically, be the CEO of you. I want you to be empowered. DJ B-Sex says my mic might be the laptop mic. I'm about to give the old classic super technical, super technical check. You ready, DJ?
All right, there we go. Just gave that a good swatting.
I feel like the audio does say that it's coming through my mixing board. And my mixing board says it is there. So, yeah, buddy.
You're right.
Well, I just gave it the old hit. Let me know, guys. Is this the right mic? Oh yeah, hey, so for those who knew what's up yesterday, the CPE email went out. I'll just break it down really quickly. Again, if you're here for the first time, you're like, why is this guy wasting time just getting to the news? It's a whole vibe, what we're doing here, okay? It's an experience. So yesterday, every single episode of the Daily Cyber Threat Brief is worth half a CPE. We have a system here. It's very, very cool, in my opinion. If you go to simplycyberthreatbrief.simplycyber.io, you can see we have a website for this show exclusively. And on the top, if you hit CPE, you could see that you can get your CPE for attending. You put in your name and email address. Oh my god, good. Aim and email address, and then double checkbox here. Verify you're a human, and then on the first of the month, you'll get an email for the previous month. Now, really quickly, yesterday, I had some logic flaws in my code where some people got just one day of June. So I've corrected that. And then the other thing is, basically, I have to pay for the backend platform. It had capped at 50 emails, and there were 374 people that needed to receive emails. So basically, I did it in a super janky way on the free model. I had to basically send 50 emails, wait two minutes, send 50 emails, wait two minutes, send 50 emails. I have to upgrade it to the paid plan, which is fine, but there's a little bit of... It's not as simple as just upgrading to the paid plan. I have to migrate something off. You guys don't care. All you want is the CPEs, but the good news is everybody got the CPEs, and hopefully you guys enjoy that. So thanks for being beta testers. Until I migrate the back-ending environment, I'll still consider the product in beta. If you're here for the first time, welcome to the party, pal.

**Sarah Lane** (5:15)
Welcome to the party, pal.

**Dr. Gerald Auger** (5:17)
I am playing the sound effects off the soundboard today. I can hear them in my ear. Let me know if you hear them also. So if you're here for the first time, drop a hashtag first timer in chat, hashtag first timer in chat. We love welcoming our first timers. I am here at Cisco Live, so if you're here for the first time, let me let you know that this right here is the mobile studio. I do this show every single day, right? So if I'm on travel, if we have company, if I'm at my in-law's house, the show must go on. So sometimes we're not in the full studio. Sometimes we're in hotel rooms that have this kind of artwork going on, which I assure you is not my vibe.