🔴 Nov 13's Top Cyber News NOW! - Ep 1287

Shamiria Gonzalez (0:00)

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Gerald Auger (0:01)

All right, what's up, everybody? Welcome to the party. Today is Friday the 13th. Ooh, spooky. Listen, this is Simply Cyber's Daily Cyber Threat Brief podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Gerald Auger. Got James McQuiggan at 35,000 feet behind the glass. And if you're looking for the top cyber news stories with expert breakdown and analysis, while doing it with a like-minded, professional inclusive community, well, my friend, settle in, because you're in the right place. We're gonna do all that and more today on Daily Cyber Threat Brief. Let's cook.

All right, all right, all right, guys. We got a good one. Shout out, poor little OE out for the support. Helped us people taking relentless calls around M365 outage. My guy, I can't help you. It's Microsoft down, next caller.

It's a hot one. I'm sure we're gonna cover it in today's news. I'm sure. I had some hot takes myself. Now I've got what I feel like is a pretty confident answer on what happened. And spoiler, or a little teaser for you, it is a bigger macro indicator of where we're going as a society and how we need to. You know that meme where the car is like taking a sharp right turn off the highway and you can meme the sign, the green sign, the exit sign? That would be quite appropriate for my hot, hot take on what's going on here. Guys, Daily Cyber Threat Brief every day, eight stories. I don't know what they're gonna be, but I do know I'm gonna break them down, give you the surface level with the headline and all that. And me, James O'Quiggin, and many of you in chat are going to give our own expert analysis and insights on those to help each other level up and absolutely slay the day, whether it's today, you know, literally, or it's slay the day proverbially of your cyber career. Guys, junior analysts, mid-tier, senior, CSO, director, VC, so all along the path, you gotta stay current, you gotta keep leveling up, you gotta keep engaged. It doesn't just apply to the junior people. So that's what we're doing here.

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Guys, you come here November 13th, that's today. Episode 1287, name, email, two checkboxes, yellow button. My guy, you'll be all set the first week of December. I'll be emailing you a toasty email. Excuse me, toasty email.

Of course, that was a Mortal Kombat reference. I'll send you a toasty email with your breakdown of your CPEs. As always, if you have not received the email in the first week, check your spam folder. I did have one community member who was kind enough to wait until today to email me and say, hey, I didn't get the email for October. I went and confirmed it was, in fact, sent last week to this individual, likely in their spam filters. So definitely check those out. I am emailing close to 1,000 people. So whatever, email servers across the world are like, oh, this guy's a spammer all day, every day. But I'm not, I'm not. So get your CPEs here. Every single episode of the Daily Cyber Threat Brief has a special segment. Fridays, long been held by James O'Cregan at 35,000 feet. A man of multiple talents, father, husband, working professional, hilarious dad joke, extraordinaire and podcast producer. Like I said, behind the glass today, helping us maintain this ship and keep it upright and not tip over or list. He also is quite the chess player. Although if memory serves correct, the first time we played, I can't remember exactly who won, but you know, we'll have to do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. I will say I beat James the first time we played. And then he realized he shouldn't take me lightly. And he, he absolutely slayed me like every time after that, pretty much indefinitely. So I think, I think my record against James is one in 50 So, you know, you got to take those wins, got to take those wins when you get them. You got to set the tone, boys. All right, so James is going to give us some dad jokes at the mid-roll. If you're, if it sounds familiar, James McQuiggan, James McQuiggan, dad jokes. That's right. He is the same author of Megabyte of Dad Jokes, the collaboration piece between him and Michelle Kahn, book signing and delivery of books at Simply CyberCon. Shout out to Christina Paulica, aka the librarian who sponsored that event. So if you received one of those books, Christina Paulica funded that initiative. So thank you, Christina, for supporting some of the activities there at Simply CyberCon. And of course, thank you to Michelle and James for taking the time to sign those books and hand them out. But that's all happened at the mid-roll. So settle down. We got to get there. Settle down.