Risky Business
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.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 52 minutes
- Episodes
- 115
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Risky Business #755 -- SSH 0day! Polyfill drama! Entrust crushed!
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:
- Widely used polyfill javascript gets hijacked by its new owners
- MacOS supply chain disaster bulle…
Risky Biz Soap Box: Why AI shouldn't really change your security controls
This is a sponsored Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast.
Abhishek Agrawal is the CEO and co-founder of Material Security, an email security company that locks down cloud email archives. A…
Risky Business #754 -- Assange pleads guilty to espionage, walks free
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:
- Julian Assange finally cuts a deal, pleads guilty, and goes free
- USA to ban Kaspersky - even upda…
Risky Business #753 – Congress and vuln researchers maul Microsoft
On this week’s retreat special, the entire Risky Business team is together in a tropical paradise for the first time. The team takes a break from the infinity pool to discuss the week’s security news…
Risky Business #752 -- Apple announcements thrill and terrify at the same time
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau are joined by long-time NSA boffin Rob Joyce. Now Rob’s left the government service, he’s hobnobbing with us pundits, talking through the week’s news…
Risky Business #751 -- Snowflake, operation Endgame and Microsoft's looming FTC problem
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Mark Piper discuss the week’s security news, including:
- What on earth happened at Snowflake?
- A look at operation Endgame
- Check Point’s hilarious adventure…
Risky Business #750 -- Why Microsoft's Recall is an attacker's best friend
On this week’s show Patrick and Adam discuss the week’s security news, including:
- Russian delivery company gets ransomware-wiper’d
- A supply-chain attack targets video software used in US courts …
Risky Business #749 -- Google answer to Microsoft's insecurity? Buy Google stuff!
This week’s episode was recorded in front of a live audience at AusCERT’s 2024 conference. Pat and Adam talked through:
- Google starts using security as a marketing tool against Microsoft, along w…
Wide World of Cyber: Krebs and Stamos on How AI Will Change Cybersecurity
In this podcast SentinelOne’s Chief Trust officer Alex Stamos and its Chief Intelligence and Public Policy Officer Chris Krebs join Patrick Gray to talk all about AI.
It’s been a year and a half sin…
Risky Business #748 -- New cyber rules for US healthcare are coming
This week Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau along special guest Lina Lau discuss the week’s news, including:
- The ongoing Ascension healthcare disruption, and
- Whether its reasonable for healthcare o…
Risky Business #747 -- Lockbit Leader Has A Very Bad Day
Patrick dials in from RSA in San Francisco to discuss the week’s security news with Adam, including:
- The west doxxes LockbitSupp, who must now hide his hundred million dollars
- Revil hacker behi…
Risky Business #746 – Microsoft takes your security seriously*
On this week’s show Patrick and Adam discuss the week’s security news, including:
- Microsoft reassures* us that they take security very seriously*
- Cisco ASA firewalls get sneakily backdoored, bu…
Snake Oilers: Push Security, Knocknoc and iVerify
In this edition of Snake Oilers we’ll be hearing from:
- Push Security: A browser plugin-based security company that combats identity-based attacks. (Much more compelling that it sounds in this des…
Special Edition: Chris Krebs, Alex Stamos and Patrick Gray
In this special edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray chats with former Facebook CSO Alex Stamos and founding CISA director Chris Krebs about sovereignty and technology.
China and Russi…
Risky Business #745 – Tales from the PANageddon
On this week’s show Patrick and Adam discuss the week’s security news, including:
- Palo Alto’s firewalls have a ../ bad day
- Sisense’s bucket full of creds gets kicked over
- United Healthcare dr…
Risky Business #744 -- Ransomware upstarts jostle in Lockbit's absence
On this week’s show Patrick and Adam discuss the week’s security news, including:
- Ransomware: down but not out
- Zero day prices on the rise…
- … and what it means for enterprise software
- Geopo…
Snake Oilers: Kodex, ClearVector and Censys
In this edition of Snake Oilers you’ll hear pitches from three companies:
- Kodex: Makes a platform companies can use to interact with law enforcement (Solves the law enforcement impersonator probl…
Risky Business #743 -- A chat about the xz backdoor with the guy who found it
On this week’s show Patrick and Adam discuss the week’s security news, including:
- The SSH backdoor that dreams (or nightmares) are made of
- Microsoft gets a solid spanking from the CSRB
- Ukrain…
Risky Business #742 -- China bans AMD and Intel, pivots to Linux on the desktop
On this week’s show Patrick and Adam discuss the week’s security news, including:
- FVEY protests China’s widespread hacking of western politicians
- China bans western CPUs, Windows and databases …
Risky Biz Soap Box: Why Azure vulns should get CVEs
In this Soap Box edition of the podcast Patrick Gray talks to Nucleus Security co-founder Scott Kuffer about whether or not cloud service vulnerabilities should get CVEs, what on earth is happening w…