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Risky Business

By Risky Business Media

Risky Business is a weekly information security podcast featuring news and in-depth interviews with industry luminaries. Launched in February 2007, Risky Business is a must-listen digest for information security pros. With a running time of approximately 50-60 minutes, Risky Business is pacy; a security podcast without the waffle.

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Risky Business #847 -- Oops! Claude's accidental hacking spree

1 hr 8 min

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Weekly
Typical length
1 hr
Latest release
Aug 5, 2026
Language
EN

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Risky Business1 hr 2 min

Risky Business #846 -- OpenAI built a fireplace out of wood

On this week’s show special guest co-host Pete Ranks, the former director of the CIA’s Centre for Cyber Intelligence, joins Patrick Gray and James Wilson to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover: Everyone signs the open weights open letter, except Anthropic… of course. OpenAI had no idea it had hacked Huggi

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Risky Business1 hr 10 min

Risky Business #845 -- OpenAI's Skynet moment

On this week’s show special guest co-host Chris Krebs joins Patrick Gray and James Wilson to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover: Oopsie daisy! OpenAI agents went rogue and hacked Hugging Face US and China trade AI model ban threats Iran has been using SS7 queries to locate and target US troops Scattered

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Risky Business35 min

Soap Box: Using threat hunting to drive detection

In this wholly sponsored Soap Box edition of the podcast Patrick Gray chats with Damien Lewke, the CEO and founder of Nebulock, about the future of threat hunting and detection. Damien spent a decade in the EDR and MDR space before founding Nebulock in 2024. It started off as an AI-powered threat hunt platform but has

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Risky Business1 hr 3 min

Risky Business #841 -- Microsoft gets owned and 0day'd

On this week’s show special guest co-host Chris Wade, the founder of Corellium turned Cellebrite CTO, joins Patrick Gray and James Wilson to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover: Microsoft has repos owned, GitHub tokens popped, and a new 0day dropped on them Meanwhile, researchers are choosing full disclos

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Risky Business37 min

Soap Box: Detection and response in the AI age

In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray chats with Edward Wu, founder of Dropzone, about what AI is doing to detection, response and the SOC more generally. Dropzone makes AI agents that conduct alert investigations in your SOC, but will the SOC as we know it even exist in the futu

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Risky Business1 hr 3 min

Risky Business #838 -- GitHub investigates possible breach

On this week’s show Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover: GitHub announced a possible breach CISA leaks important creds, keys in public repo Awful vulnerability in Bitlocker renders it useless without a PIN So. Many. Patches. Polish Government urges officials to

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Risky Business34 min

Soap Box: Where does AI fit into cloud security?

In this sponsored soap box edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray chats with Toni de la Fuente, the founder of Prowler. Prowler started off as a bunch of scripts in a trenchcoat, then became an open source cloud security tool, and it’s now a venture-funded cloud security business. In this interview Toni tal

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Risky Business1 hr 2 min

Risky Business #836 -- You can't patch the bugpocalypse

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest co-host Brad Arkin. They discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: The US Government says we just have to patch faster, but… Bugs in cPanel, MoveIt and all Linux distributions this week show that patching alone isn’t enough James get

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Risky Business44 min

Snake Oilers: Ent AI, Spacewalk and Mondoo

In this edition of the Snake Oilers podcast three vendors stop by to pitch the audience on their products: Ent AI: Co-founder Brandon Dixon pitched Ent, an intent-aware, AI-powered endpoint security control. Spacewalk AI: Founders Chris Fuller and Tim Wenzlau pitch Spacewalk, an AI-powered incident response platform. M

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Risky Business1 hr 6 min

Risky Business #835 -- Why the Fast16 malware is badass

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest-host Dmitri Alperovitch. They discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: The US government is mad as hell about Chinese firms stealing American AI technology Dmitri has an opinion or two about the US selling Nvidia chips to China Spea

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Risky Business1 hr

Risky Business #833 -- The Great Mythos Freakout of 2026

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover: Everyone has an opinion about Claude Mythos… even though almost nobody has used it yet CISA adds a 2009 Excel bug to the KEV list, u wot? Adobe also parties like it’s the 2000s, and fixes an Acrobat Reade

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Risky Business48 min

Snake Oilers: Burp AI, Sondera and Truffle Security

In this edition of the Snake Oilers podcast three vendors stop by to pitch the audience on their products: Burp AI and DAST: The founder of PortSwigger and creator of legendary security software Burp Suite, Dafydd Stuttard, drops by to pitch listeners on Burp AI and Burp Suite DAST. Sondera: Josh Devon talks about Sond

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Risky Business47 min

How the World Got Owned Episode 2: The 1990s, Part One

In this special documentary episode, Patrick Gray and Amberleigh Jack take a look back at hacking throughout the 1990s, from the feel-good vibes of the early hacking communities to the antics of young hackers who wound up on the run from the FBI. Part one features recollections from: Jeff Moss (The Dark Tangent), DefCo

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Risky Business1 hr

Risky Business #831 -- The AI bugpocalypse begins

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover: Those pesky North Koreans shim a backdoor into a 100M-downloads-a-week npm package TeamPCP appear to have ransacked Cisco’s source and cloud environments AI is getting legitimately good at being told to “

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Risky Business30 min

Soap Box: Red teaming AI systems with SpecterOps

In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the show, Patrick Gray and James Wilson talk about red teaming AI systems with Russel Van Tuyl, Vice President of Services at elite penetration testing firm SpecterOps. SpecterOps is the company behind attack path enumeration tool Bloodhound and Bloodhound Enterprise, but they’re a

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