🔴 Jun 30's Top Cyber News NOW! - Ep 1164

**Dr. Gerald Auger** (0:01)
What's up, everybody? Welcome to the party. Today is June 30th, 2026 It's a Tuesday.
Welcome to Simply Cyber's Daily Cyber Threat Brief Podcast. I am your host, Dr. Gerald Auger. And over the next hour, hour and a half, me, you, Ad Tech, Michael Nolan, Code Brew, Hot Plate, James McQuiggan in the green room, Dan Reardon with a surprise visit in the green room. We're all gonna be shredding the top cyber news. Listen, if you're looking to stay current on the top cyber news and do it in a fun, inclusive way where you get value that goes beyond the headlines, that's what we do here every single day. We've been doing it for over 1100 episodes in a row. We have no sign of slowing down in the future. Normally, we'd run the little intro thing, which we'll do in a second, but want to give a quick shout out to first timer at 31, 31Jane1 or 31Came1. Here we go. 31Came1, I think.
All right. I don't know if that person left or not, but they were second in chat or third in chat, saying the first time here, caught part of the show yesterday. So welcome to the party, pal. Guys, we're off and running on this beautiful day. Let's get cooking, shall we?
All right, guys, yes, it is Tuesday. The wheels are turning, we've left the station, and we're on it. You can call me L? All right, 31K1 is gonna be called L. Guys, let's just start with the first timers. Listen, if you're here for the first time, maybe you found our chef today and caught part of the show, like our friend L. Maybe a friend told you, maybe James McQuiggins, your professor, and he said, you have homework on Tuesday. Join Simply Cyber's Daily Cyber Threat Brief. Regardless of how you got here, you're watching this show right now. You're part of something bigger. The Simply Cyber community, all about support, all about inclusion, all about empowering you to be the best you can be. Because ultimately, I want you to be the CEO of you and kick butt as a cyber professional. So if you are here, let us know with a shout out with a hashtag first timer. Space Tacos with the Taco Tuesday Cheers, talking 37 months sub member. Space Tacos, love it, love it, love it. Let's give you a little anime wow.
I don't have that one. I guess I have to do it manually, which is perfect because Space Tacos does love herself some manual sound effects. Wow.
All right, guys. Listen, you can get the news yourself. Of course, you can AI nowadays. You can have it friggin curate you a very specific news feed and send it to your email. Heck, you can even have it read it for you. And then you don't even have to do that, which would be a bad idea. But there's a lot of people out there doing a lot of shortcuts with AI. The problem is, AI hasn't sat in the seat for 20 years. AI hasn't been in the trenches. AI doesn't have fingers to get dirt under the nails. And that's what we have here. Not just myself, but James McQuagan, HaircutFish, friggin Code Brew, Mara Levy, Fleetus Postin, Cyber Guy. There's so many of them. Literally, if you totaled up our experience level, we'd be in the thousands of years. So, why do we call that out? Because we can use that experience to go beyond the headlines and give you additional insights and values. Things that you wouldn't get ever from a textbook. Listen, a textbook is never gonna tell you that you gotta grease the IT people with donuts in order to get them to prioritize your patches. Show me a textbook that says that. I should have written a textbook that says it, because it's true. You know what? If you're a jerk, all of a sudden, your projects aren't priorities. No one in the classroom is gonna tell you that. So, that's what we're doing here. I saw a first timer-ish in chat. Hold on. Let's go.
Lucille Terry Musical Arts. Lucille Terry Musical Arts, welcome to the party, pal.

**Sarah Lane** (4:19)
Welcome to the party, pal.

**Dr. Gerald Auger** (4:21)
All right. Let's get those first timers there. If you are here for the first time, do us a solid hashtag first timer. Hashtag first timer in chat. We got L, not to be confused with big L, as Gangstar, put it big L, rest in peace.
That's a shout out for you Gangstar fans in the chat. And we got Lucille. So some first timers in here. Drop a hashtag first timer. Squad members, if your name is green in the chat right now over on YouTube, like many of you are, thank you first of all for the support. That means you're a squad member. But number two, you have access to an emote trade, just like Jim Wales does with the John McClain emote. So be a friend, welcome those first timers with the John McClain as we get cooking into the show.