🔴 Jun 5's Top Cyber News NOW! - Ep 1147

**Dr. Gerald Auger** (0:03)
All right. What's up, everybody? Welcome to the Daily Cyber Threat Brief. James, I see you here. Are you in a position where you can take this? I can't hear you. I can only see thumbs up, thumbs down.
All right. Hey, what's up, everybody? Welcome. This is Daily Cyber Threat Brief. I'm your host, Dr. Gerald Auger. We are dealing with a bit of a disaster right now. Normally, when we're coming from the hotel or we're on the road or whatever, it's business continuity. You're continuing to deliver but in a diminished capacity. I came in half an hour ago into the studio and my main rig is having significant mixing board issues, which the show doesn't work if there's no audio. And so I hopped on the old laptop here, the old mobile setup.
But it's always audio. It's always audio with this show, man. The audio is not getting picked up. Not getting picked up. So I can do the show. You just have to give me a few minutes because I have to pull out my gear from my travel bag and then figure out what pieces are part of my home studio, what pieces are part of my travel kit. So it's a bit of a hot mess. I see James McQuiggan in the studio. James, can you do this show for a minute while I unpackage myself?
All right. Hold on. Here we go. This is amazing. Listen, sometimes when you're dealing with cybersecurity incidents, you have to call external incident responders to come in. Those who are ready with the little go-bag to deploy, and that's what we're going to do right now. My friend, dear friend, James McQuiggan is going to slide in here and save the day. James, how are you, buddy?

**James McQuiggan** (1:52)
I'm doing all right. How are you, Jerry?

**Dr. Gerald Auger** (1:55)
Good. I'm good. I'm not losing my mind here.
It's just IT. But dude, yeah, not all heroes wear a cape. So James, let me throw it to you while I continue to troubleshoot. Maybe I can slide in here. Don't worry about the ads. I'll do those a little bit later.

**James McQuiggan** (2:12)
I'll kick us off. Welcome everybody in. I can do your ads for you and then...

**Dr. Gerald Auger** (2:18)
Okay. All right. All right. Well then, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to pass the mic to my man, James McQuiggan. James, thank you.
Literally, it's like, I have fire that's on fire here.

**James McQuiggan** (2:32)
Dumpster fire is on fire itself. Yeah.

**Dr. Gerald Auger** (2:34)
All right. Well, I'll leave you with James. Thank you, James. All right.

**James McQuiggan** (2:37)
We'll see you in a bit. Good morning, everybody. Talk about... It was funny because AdTech was in there earlier going, hey, is Jerry in the house or we're going to have Jerry back in the room? And it's like, yeah, no, I know he's home. We chatted last night and I'm sitting here working away. I'm still at SecretCon here in Minneapolis, but not Minneapolis, St. Paul, Minnesota. You got to be careful because you can upset the Minnesotians. And I look at my clock and it's like 7 or 2 and I don't hear Jerry. And I'm like, oh, my gosh. So I jumped in here with that. So good morning, everybody. Welcome to the Daily Cyber Threat Brief. It is June 5th, 2026 This is episode 1147, 1147 Don't ask me to do the binary. I didn't prep for it. It's probably episode 47B in Hex Code.
I did look at that. But if you are looking to stay current as we get things going here, you're looking to stay current on the latest cybersecurity stories. What's going on in the industry? Looking for a little education, maybe a little entertainment, a little entertainment today. Because I know at the mid-world, Jerry's going to need some good belly laughs with the dad jokes I sent him. But you are in good company overall. We got a bit of a delayed start, but as Jerry likes to say, let's get cooking.
All right, we're back. Good morning, hopefully, everybody's hearing me coming in nice and loud and clear. You're all having an awesome Friday overall.
It's just kind of like, you gotta dive into the fire, gotta run into the burning building to help save the folks. And that's certainly what, sounds like what's going on with Jerry. He'll be back here shortly. I'm just gonna get the show going, get us moving.
But yeah, I gotta imagine people that are here for the first time, people that have never seen the show and they're like, hey, I heard about this Simply Cyber, let me go check it out. They come in here and they got the dumpster fire. It's all good. It's all good. We're gonna give you the new stories of the day. I'm just having to quickly get my gear, my setup going here. This is not something we just kind of jump on camera and go, woohoo, hey everybody, guess what? No, it's like I had to get my audio setup, had to get everything going in. But if you are a first timer, if this is your first time on the show, please, please, please drop us a hashtag first timer in the chat. We would love to know that you're joining us for the first time. I'm trying to keep an eye on the chat as well. But if you are a first timer, let us know and we have an awesome emote that we like to use. It's the John McClain from Die Hard. Welcome to the party, pal.