🔴 Sep 28's Top Cyber News NOW! - Ep 1253

Gerald Auger (0:01)

Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the party. Today is Monday, September 28th, 2026 This is Simply Cyber's Daily Cyber Threat Brief Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Gerald Auger, coming to you live from the Buffer Auger Flow Studio. And if you're looking to stay current on the top cyber news stories of the day while engaging with a community that is second to none, well, then you're in the right place, my friend. So get your coffee, get comfortable. We're off and running.

All right, everybody, what is up? Yes, over the next hour, you are tuned in to Simply Cyber's Daily Cyber Threat Brief Podcast. We're gonna go through the eight top cyber stories of the day. We'll give you the headline and the surface level, you know, quick hit, if you will, above the fold of what that new story is. But then the whole value prop, the whole deal here is that we will go beyond those headlines. We will provide additional insight. We will give you something you won't get anywhere else to be able to either elevate your career, help you drive cyber risk reduction, inform you on how to engage IT or your end users. All of it is designed to help you be more, I guess, more awesome at cyber security, right? Support, inclusion, empowerment is what we're doing here. Speaking of support, inclusion, empowerment, on the inclusion tip, I want to remind everybody that we welcome our first timers here. We see a lot of really great familiar friends, Marcus Kyler, Cyber, Eddie, Port Zero, Elliot Matice, The Real Vanilla Ice, AdTech and Anthony. But if you're here for the first time, welcome to the party, pal. I do want to say, I want to say, don't be shy, whether you're, you know, on the TV, on the mobile, wherever you are, drop a hashtag first timer in chat, pound sign, shift three, first timer. The whole reason we ask you to identify as a first timer, if you truly are here for the first time, is so that we can play a special sound effect. We have a special emote. But really, it's more of just a way to, you know, wave and say hello, right? You know, when Norm walks into Cheers, whoa, there's our, if you don't know what I'm talking about, hey Norm, it's like, you know, you want to welcome people, you want to feel, I guess, part of a community. And that's what we're doing here. So we don't want you to have to like, meet some type of minimum threshold of, oh, here's your card, you got to punch it. And on your 10th punch, you get 10% off your next cup of coffee, and we will say hello to you. No, you get it the first time. All you got to do is say, hashtag first timer in chat. Now, whether you're a first timer, a long timer, or an old timer like me, every single episode of the Daily Cyber Threat Brief is worth half a CPE. So if you go to cyberthreatbrief.simplycyber.io, you'll see on stream right now, you can see, if you go there, you'll get the same website I'm showing right now, September 28th, episode 1,253.

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Put in your name, your email, a couple check boxes, hit that yellow button, and on October 1st, I'm going to send you an email with all the days you showed up, plus a snazzy little PDF that you can use as evidence. Do you want to say a quick shout out to DigitalGhost92, Simply Cyber Community member Lazaro, Ben MIA. He says, hope you and everyone are doing good. We are, and thank you for 38 months of support, Lazaro. All right, get your CPEs here. So we got our first timers, we got our CPEs.

Every single episode of the Daily Cyber Threat Brief has a special little segment in the middle of the show. And Mondays has a long been Simply Cyber's Community member of the week. I'm very excited. I get to, this is a sponsored segment, sponsored by ThreatLocker. Thank you, ThreatLocker Zero Trust across all the facets. But the cool thing is because it's sponsored, right? Like let's not pretend what that means, right? It's sponsored, meaning I get money for this segment, which is awesome because I take some of the money and I turn around and I give $100 Amazon gift card to our Simply Cyber community member of the week. We got a good one this week as always. Every week's a good one. We'll see if she, what? There's a hint. We'll see if she shows up in chat a little later. She typically does. We got a first timer in here, Cyber Jimothy. Cyber Jimothy, welcome to the party, pal.