🔴 Oct 8's Top Cyber News NOW! - Ep 1261

Gerald Auger (1:07)

I got you, listen, I just switched the digital output to MixCast for the microphone, didn't check that.

We're going to roll it back, people. Listen, welcome to the party, pal. I'm going to do the extended cut or the shortcut. This is October 8th, 2026, Simply Cyber Daily Cyber Threat Brief Podcast, where your hosts come to you live. We already did the intro, so we'll just not do that again. Let me know if you can hear us now. I think we can. Thank you, Dan Reardon, our visual technician today. On the soundboard, just so everybody knows, Jesse Johnson, AK, the Cosmic Cowboy.

On the panel, we have Shield and Slay and James McQuiggan at 35,000 feet. Okay, listen, guys, let's rip through this. We are at Wild West Hack and Fest. We're going to be going over the top eight cyber stories of the day. We'll give you the surface level headline and little detail that you need to know. But then, of course, because this is Simply Cyber's Daily Cyber Threat Brief, we're going to go beyond those headlines and absolutely slay it with insights and additional value that you're not going to get anywhere else. And because it is special, we're going to dip into stories with James and Lindsay and some special guest panelists that will come up a little bit later on the show. But the entire intent is to level you up like an absolute mother trucker and make you the best cyber professional that you can be. What up? Merrick has entered the house. Everybody, he's here. Let's go. Little Rick Flair.

Okay. Where's my Rick Flair? No, we didn't get Rick Flair?

James McQuiggan (2:30)

There we go. The Rick Flair.

Gerald Auger (2:31)

Okay. So we are at Dale Sportsbook Live, of course. For those who are new here, welcome to the party, pal. You've actually chose a hell of a day to pick your first Simply Cyber's Daily Cyber Threat Brief. Do let us know in chat with a hashtag first timer. We love to welcome our first timers, whether they're here in person.

You know, we've got some folks here who are Team Replay, typically, who have gotten here live with us to be here.

Marcus Cadillac, you'll have to stay tuned to see who it is. All right. Katya is in the house. We got good people here. So first hashtag first timer in chat if you got it. Also, every single episode, James, every single episode is worth what?

James McQuiggan (3:10)

Half a CPE.

Gerald Auger (3:11)

That's right. You got your own microphone. That's right. So what I would ask everybody is, if you want the CPEs, go to cyberthreatbrief.simplycyber.io.

You'll get this beautiful web page. Go to the slash CPE element right there. Claim your half a CPE. It's very simple. You put in your first name, your last name, a couple of checkboxes, hit that yellow button. You can see on stream right now. And if you're on replay, like I'm meeting people today, you can go into the show description and find this link. But of course, it's always going to be cyberthreatbrief.simplycyber.io.

Today is episode 1261, so congratulations to the panel and everybody here who's doing it. Get your CPEs here. Now, we've done CPEs, first timers, top cyber news. Let's spend a hot minute.

So Justin Gold is having FOMO. So if you are part of the community and you're not at Wild West Hack and Fest, and you are having FOMO, let us hear it in chat. We're trying to do the best we can. We're taking pictures, we're sharing them on the Discord server. So do giddy up on that if you can. Now, every single day of the week has a special segment. And not only is Dan Reardon operating the camera today, so he's behind the camera, he cooks up a special meme every single week. This week, no different. And it's a really special one. Dan has kind of hyped it up. So I hope everyone's excited. I haven't seen it myself. Normally, I get a little teaser. But Dan has asked me not to look at this until it's time. So you're going to get a raw, honest reaction.

We'll see where it goes. I don't know what's going to happen here. So stay tuned. Okay. It looks like James was going to weigh in on that one. Listen, every single episode of the Daily Cyber Threat Brief is sponsored. It would make the most sense to recognize Anti-Siphon Training is our first sponsor of the show. Anti-Siphon Training is absolutely disrupting the cybersecurity training industry by offering high quality cutting edge education to everyone regardless of financial position. And they continue to do that not only with all the training they're doing here at Wild West Hack and Fest, but their Anti-Cast Series is an absolute home run slam mamma jamma. And on October 14th, Jeff McJunkin, who I gave a crispy high five to last night at the karaoke event, is going to help you how to learn faster with AI. Sample Delve Absorb, Jeff McJunkin, senior instructor at SANS, also an all around amazing individual. Like dude, one hour, one CPE, completely free, getting access to this level of talent is insane. Don't miss out on it right now. I'm going to drop a link in chat. Go sign up. The best thing I would recommend is sign up. It costs nothing. So if you sign up, get it on your calendar and then life happens. Fine, life happens. You'll get an email. I'm pretty sure, Kat, you're right. They get an email with replay. So you'll get the replay and it's an honor system here, but you'll get the CPE too. Just saying, you choose your own adventure on this one. Also, we've got the good times over at Flare. Listen, and I know it's too bad because the audience here is just watching us yell at them versus the screens behind us. We are still working through the AV back here, for those who are in chat right now, but we're here for you. We're going to try to dance up here and entertain. Flare is offering an unbelievable opportunity on October 21st from 12 to 2 PM. Flare is known for their cyber threat intelligence and deep web, dark web research. But if you want to do it yourself and not shoot yourself in the leg like Plaxico Burris, you can learn how to build an investigation lab for the dark web. And it's not just like, here's my tool set, copy and paste it and spin up a Docker container. It's much more like, here's how you build a sock puppet account. Here's how you accidentally don't dox yourself to cyber criminals in Eastern Europe and what not.