🔴 Oct 19's Top Cyber News NOW! - Ep 1268

Gerald Auger (0:01)

All right, what's up, everybody? Welcome to the party. Let me know if you can hear me. Little mixing board snafu here right at the riff, of course. Good morning. Today is Monday, October 19th, 2026 This is Simply Cyber's Daily Cyber Threat Brief podcast. I'm your host. Big cup of coffee, big smile, and just happy to be here. Dr. Gerald Auger, we're coming to you live from the Buffer Auger Flow Studio. If you're looking to stay current on the top cyber news or high fiving and carousing with like minded cyber professionals, you're in the right place. So get your coffee. Thank you, SP Tables. Get your coffee and let's get into it.

All right. It's great to be here this morning. Half a pot of coffee down, another half to go. I am super excited. I hope everybody had a great weekend. As always, if you are a subscriber to the Simply Cyber Actionable Intel Newsletter, you would have seen a custom video I make. It's a video that you can't get anywhere else, and it's a very personal video. I make it every Sunday night. But so you would be fully aware of how my weekend was and what was going on with all that. If you don't know what I'm talking about, go to simplycyber.io/newsletter.

You can't get this week's, but next week's you could get. Let's see. Hey guys, what's the format here? Simple. We go through eight stories. I have no idea what they're going to be. Ain't nobody got time for that. But I'm going to break them down for you, give you the high level headline and the surface level part of the story. But then what makes this show special or unique or its own kind of vibe is that we go beyond those headlines and give you additional insights and value that you just won't get anywhere else. Based on my 20 plus years of experience, based on community members' experience, it really is a phenomenal opportunity to get additional insights in. Basically, not have to make the same mistakes others have made in the past. Now, the value train is going strong. It's left the station, choo choo. And first stop on the value train is CPE Station. Guys, every single episode of Daily Cyber Threat Brief is worth half a CPE. So very simple, go to cyberthreatbrief.simplycyber.io/cpe.

You can also type in exclamation point CPE into the live YouTube chat. And Nightbot will give you the link so you can just click on it. As always, if you're listening on audio only, if you're Drew on Spotify, walking the puppy on Tuesday morning listening to this, there is links in the description wherever you're consuming this to take you right to it. Now, what does it do for you? Very simple. It's a simple form field where you type in your name, email, and a couple check boxes and hit that Submit button. And on the first month, I'll send you a sweet email with all of your CPEs aggregated into one sick, submitable PDF form. It's as easy as that. You can see today is October 19th, episode 1268 Just so everybody knows, you have to get the CPE during the 24-hour window. So 8 a.m. today to 7.59 tomorrow, you will have an opportunity to grab this. If you wait until Saturday, you're not getting this CPE, OK?

If you're here for the first time, welcome to the party, pal. I hope you are enjoying yourself. We do ask one small thing out of folks if you're here for the first time. Guys, I know it can be tough to get momentum. It can be tough to lean into something. It's easy to just kind of hang out in the shadows. But I humbly ask you, if you're here for the first time or if it's your first time ever engaging in chat, typically you just hang out. Drop a hashtag first timer or pound symbol first timer if you're old like me. Shift 3, first timer. Because we have a special sound effect that I'll play. We have a special emote that a lot of the squad members will drop. Add text, drop it right now. And if we get enough first timers, spoiler, the answer is two or more. I'll even do some fun stuff on screen. So it's as easy as that. Let us know where you're at, first timers. Every single day of the week.

Okay, so the land shark is pointing out a feature, not a bug. Technically, the CPE form runs until the next episode starts. So on Friday, you can get the CPEs up until 7.59 Monday morning. Great point, great point. This is why I'm not great at pen testing. I don't think of these fringe cases, but you got a great point there, the land shark. So giddy up on that. Sleep in on Friday, if you will.