🔴 Jun 3's Top Cyber News NOW! - Ep 1145

**Dr. Gerald Auger** (0:01)
All right, good morning, everybody. Welcome to the party. Today is Wednesday, June 30th, 2026 Welcome to Simply Cyber's Daily Cyber Threat Brief podcast. I am your host, Dr. Gerald Auger. Two thumbs coming to you live at 5 a.m. Pacific time from Las Vegas.
This is Daily Cyber Threat Brief. If you're looking to stay current on the top cyber news stories of the day while being entertained, educated, and having community experiences right above my head, then you're in the right place. We're off and running. Get your coffee. Get ready. I need a second cup of coffee, frankly. But we are about to cook. Let's go.
Yes, yes, good morning, everybody. Hopefully, I'm coming in loud and clear. Got the audio on my mic, so you can hear my voice. And then maybe a little bit of, maybe a little bit of music underneath as we get the show started. It's day three here at Cisco Live. I've been putting content out on social medias about my Cisco Live experience. I got another banger coming out. I don't have time. So after the Cyber Career Hotline today, I should have about 30 minutes where I can focus on getting a piece of content out to let people know how it's going here day two, before I have to run downstairs and get breakfast and then go to the second keynote. Guys, if you want to know what, not only what the top cyber stories are of the day, but then go one step further and have somebody who's been a practitioner for 20 plus years, break it down and give you insights that you wouldn't get from a textbook or from a classroom. Well, that's what we do here today. We're going to go through 8 stories. I've seen none of them. I literally have no idea what stories we're going to be covering. And that's perfectly fine with me. I love riding by the seat of my pants. And for me, it's actually part of the show because I don't know what I'm going to say either. Honestly, ain't nobody got time for that. I have the soundboard, but it is the mobile studio. I'm in a hotel room. So, of course, everything is like 80% of what the normal show is. Say what's up in chat, everybody. If today's your first time, Dark Iceman, you definitely need more coffee, my guy. Hey, if today's your first episode with us, thank you for joining. Thanks for checking us out. Welcome to the party, pal. I do have that one on the soundboard.
Don't be shy, John McClane. You can speak.
Dude, I had to reboot my stream deck right before the stream started and it worked for like a split second and now it doesn't. So I guess we're on manual sound effects today, everybody. Welcome to the party, pal, to all those first timers. Drop a hashtag first timer in chat. If you would let us know it's your first time. Not only is it for you to get comfortable with chat, so you aren't shy and you can say what's up and ask questions and whatever, but also we, the Simply Cyber community, have a special e-mote. We have a special sound effect, which I will be doing manually. We just love welcoming new people. We are all about support, inclusion, and empowerment here at Simply Cyber. Welcoming first timers is one way we demonstrate that inclusion. I want to say what's up to people in chat, because I am traveling. I do have a little bit of a different flow here at the show. Jesse Johnson getting up early. My guy, I feel you Jesse, getting up early. DreamLogic, of course, Marcus Kyler. Hope everything is going well. Space Tacos is in her glory. We've got the Team Sippy Cup and Manual Sound Effects. I feel like that's a double win for her. And she's in the running for auditor two position as a promotion. So things are looking very good in the Space Tacos world here. Roswell UK says he's got a medie lurked for months before saying what's up. Well, that's fine. I'll say it every single day. Come on down. Welcome everybody. I am going to take a slug off this coffee.
You know, guys, honestly, the coffee when I'm on the road is like, like the mobile show, like it's 80 percent of what it is when I'm at home.
All right. Phil Stafford, manual wrecking balls coming in. Yes. Rhonda Rummifield. Good to see you. As always, AA Witherspoon dropping the tag in chat. Andre Mack. Good to see you. Nintendude from Georgia bringing the heat, guys. Every single day of the week has a special segment. And Wednesdays, every Wednesday, we've been doing this for years, is well, I should rephrase that. We've been doing a special segment every day for years. Way Back Wednesday is our newest edition. It came into a vogue maybe, I don't know, six months ago. And Way Back Wednesday, I'm old. I stopped developing culturally in 1998 So I love throwing it back to some old tech. Seeing if we vibe, I've got a fun one for you guys today. Shot, warning, there's a PTSD triggering that you need to know about.