🔴 Oct 5's Top Cyber News NOW! - Ep 1258

Dr. Gerald Auger (0:01)

Yes sir, yes sir, what's up everybody? Welcome to the party. Today is Monday, October 5th, 2026 This is Simply Cyber's Daily Cyber Threat Brief Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Gerald Auger, and over the next hour, we're gonna rip through the top eight stories of the day, break down with analysis, get your coffee, get comfortable. We got a great show for you, let's go.

All right, everybody. Yes, that's right. We are back. I was in North Dakota doing the show from the hotel, and I went camping. If you get the newsletter, you are definitely well-informed on what it is. I broke it all down in the newsletter video email. If you don't get the newsletter, not a big deal, but if you're interested, simply cyber.io/newsletter. We do it every week, and I do a little video journal entry to connect with y'all and just let you know what's going on personally, professionally, and a wicked cool tool to share. Phil Stafford, let me know if you saw the tool. It is an AI-related one. So definitely ready to be back. Fully recharged, guys, over the next hour. Eight stories, break it down. You're gonna get the headline. You're gonna get the top level surface of the story so you'll be able to understand what other people are talking about, be able to bring your own conversations to bear with other people in our practitioner circles. But one of the best things about Daily Cyber Threat Brief, arguably, is we're gonna go beyond those headlines, give you additional value, additional insights, things you would only get from having sat in the chair. Whether it's an engineer, a CISO, analyst, pen tester, AI researcher, we collectively go beyond the headlines. I don't know it all, believe me, no one does in cyber, but I am joined by this amazing Simply Cyber community, you and many like you. So we're able to pull it together and absolutely deliver value every single episode of Daily Cyber Threat Brief, including today's episode, which I might add is episode 1,258.

Bruise and Hacks, I did talk about cyber hygiene. I don't script or prep for that newsletter. So when I said it, I was like, oh my God, I think I even tried to use a different word than cyber hygiene. Today's October 5th, y'all, episode 1,258. Every episode is worth a half a CPE. So go to Simply Cyber, excuse me, cyberthreatbrief.simplycyber.io/cpe and hit those checkboxes. You will get an email on November 1st. Now, I was out for a couple of days. Please grant me some grace. I do try to balance my mental health and my professional responsibilities. I don't, I did not, I don't know if people got their email. Marcus, Kyler, you're kind of turned into the, the, I guess, the, what's the word I want to say? Like the avatar for people in the CPEs. So let me know if you got the CPE letter. If not, we've had challenges month over month with it going out. I have a manual process I can run that runs the dang thing. So I will do that later today. I'm trying to work a half day today as for those who don't know, I'm going right back out on the road going to South Dakota for a few days. I miss my wife and children. So I'm trying to take a half day today. All right. So it looks like some people got their e-mails. So this is good. I can go back and just see how many e-mails got sent out. Make sure.

All right. So we got our half a CPE. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Every single day of the Daily Cyber Threat Brief has got a special segment. And today, guys, Monday, Simply Cyber Community member of the week, we're always representing and bringing to bear a member of our community who is absolutely crushing it. It is a sponsored segment, which means ThreatLocker gives me money and I turn around and give money to the community member of the week in the form of a hundred dollar Amazon gift card. So look forward to that. Today's community member of the week should probably surprise no one. He's been just a very, very kind contributing member to the community. All right, guys, what do we got here? We got it. Oh, hey, let me get my coffee.

If you guys, all right, so some people got it, some people didn't. All right, I got it. Hey, so check it out.

If you're here for the first time, welcome to the party, pal. We love having you here. For all those who are letting me know about their e-mails, thank you very much. Thank you. It's good to know we're working towards it, getting it automated. That's the dream, right?