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Risky Business

Patrick Gray

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Technology

Frequency: 1 episode/6d. Total Eps: 102

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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🇨🇦 Canada - techNews
21/08/2026
#18
🇬🇧 Great Britain - techNews
21/08/2026
#10
🇩🇪 Germany - techNews
21/08/2026
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🇫🇷 France - techNews
21/08/2026
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🇨🇦 Canada - techNews
20/08/2026
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🇬🇧 Great Britain - techNews
20/08/2026
#8
🇩🇪 Germany - techNews
20/08/2026
#11
🇺🇸 USA - techNews
20/08/2026
#10
🇫🇷 France - techNews
20/08/2026
#15

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Risky Business #761 – Telegram v frogs. Fight!

Wednesday, August 28, 2024 • Duration 01:04:32

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discusses the week’s security news, including:

Telegram founder’s arrest in France
Volt Typhoon 0days some SD-WAN gear
Russia frets about Ukraine all up in Kursk’s webcams
Cybercriminals social engineer payment card NFC relay attacks in the wild
The slow burn of Active Directory name collisions
And much, much more.

This week’s episode is sponsored by Nucleus Security. Aaron Unterberger joins to discuss how vulnerability management starts out easy, but gets serious very quickly.

You can also watch this week’s show on Youtube.

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Feature interview: ASIO Director General Mike Burgess on encryption and access

Monday, August 26, 2024 • Duration 29:49

Mike Burgess is the director general of ASIO. But the thing about Mike is he’s actually a cybersecurity guy. He joined ASD, Australia’s NSA, back in 1995 when it was still the Defence Signals Directorate. He was there for 18 years before he bounced out to the private sector for a while to work as the CISO for Australia’s largest telco, Telstra. In 2017 he returned to ASD to run it, and in 2019 he was appointed director general of ASIO.

Back in April, Burgess made a series of comments on the topic of encrypted messaging during a Press Club speech in Canberra. Our right to privacy, he said, is not absolute, and he implied that if certain providers didn’t start helping Australian authorities out a little more, he’d use some of the provisions in Australia’s Assistance and Access bill to force them to provide access to certain content.

So I reached out to organise this interview to get some more detail from him about exactly what sort of cooperation he’s seeking and why.

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Risky Biz Soap Box: Mike Wiacek on lazy mode threat hunting

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 • Duration 31:20

This Soap Box edition of the show is with Mike Wiacek, the CEO and Founder of Stairwell.

Stairwell is a platform that creates something similar to an NDR, but for file analysis instead of network traffic. The idea is you get a copy of every unique file in your environment to the Stairwell platform, via a file forwarding agent. You get an inventory that lists where these files exist in your environment, at what times, and from there you can start doing analysis.

If you find a dodgy file you can do all the usual malware analysis type stuff, but you can also do things like immediately find out where else that file is in your organisation, or even where else it was. From there you can identify other files that are similar – variants of those files – and search for those. And you can unpack all this very, very quickly.

This is the type of tool that EDR companies use internally to do threat hunting, but it’s just for you and your org – you can drive it. And as you’ll hear, the idea of a transparent, customisable and programmable security stack is something that’s on-trend at the moment. Mike lays out the case that doing this sort of file analysis in your organisation makes a whole lot of sense.

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Wide World of Cyber: State directed cybercrime

Wednesday, July 10, 2024 • Duration 39:41

In this podcast Alex Stamos, Chris Krebs and Patrick Gray discuss the relationship between cybercrime and the state, which is often more complicated than it should be.

While the US Government and its allies fight the scourge of ransomware, other governments are using it to either raise revenue or irritate their foes. North Korea sees ransomware as a money spinner, while the Kremlin enjoys poking the west in the eye with it.

Join us for a breakdown of the relationships between governments who should know better and the worst types of people on the planet.

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Risky Business #755 -- SSH 0day! Polyfill drama! Entrust crushed!

Wednesday, July 3, 2024 • Duration 59:19

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 bullet dodged
That OpenSSH remote code exec OH MY <3
Entrust gets its CA business kicked to the kerb by Google
South Korean telco intentionally viruses 600k customers
Microsoft continues to deeply underwhelm
And much, much more.

This week’s episode is sponsored by Greynoise. Founder Andrew Morris joins to talk about ways to track attackers across NAT and VPNs, as well as how you can join in the fun of running an internet-scale honeypot network.

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Risky Biz Soap Box: Why AI shouldn't really change your security controls

Friday, June 28, 2024 • Duration 35:29

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. Attackers have been raiding mailspools since hacking has existed, and with those mailspools now in the cloud with services like o365 and Google Workspace, guess where the attackers are going?

Material built a product that helps you lock up your email data, to archive and redact sensitive information. The idea is to really just limit what an attacker can do with email data if they pop an account.

Abhishek joined me to talk about a few things, like how non phishing resistant MFA is basically dead, how email content is very useful to security programs, and about how the gen AI won’t really change much on the defensive control side.

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Risky Business #754 -- Assange pleads guilty to espionage, walks free

Wednesday, June 26, 2024 • Duration 57:00

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 updates
Car dealer SaaS provider CDK contemplates paying a ransom
Intolerable healthcare ransomware attacks continue
We revisit Windows proximity bugs via wifi and bluetooth
And much, much more.

This week’s episode is sponsored by enterprise browser maker Island. Crowdstrike co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch is an investor in Island, and joins on its behalf to discuss why an enterprise browser is really starting to make sense.

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Risky Business #753 – Congress and vuln researchers maul Microsoft

Wednesday, June 19, 2024 • Duration 01:03:37

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:

Microsoft recalls Recall, but why did it have to be such a mess
And a Windows kernel wifi code-exec, really?
Passkeys and identity are hard
Scattered Spider bigwig arrested in Spain
The pentagon runs a deeply flawed info-op
Is it time E2E crypto nerds accept their place in the world?
And much, much more.

This week’s show is brought to you by Corelight… Corelight’s CEO Brian Dye will be along in this week’s sponsor interview to make a really compelling case for something that shouldn’t exist… which is NDR in cloud environments.

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Risky Business #752 -- Apple announcements thrill and terrify at the same time

Wednesday, June 12, 2024 • Duration 01:04:07

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:

Apple announces a big leap for confidential cloud computing into the mass market
While at the same time, letting you just mosey around your iPhone from your Mac
Mandiant reports in about the Snowflake breach
Moody’s say credit ratings might consider cyber incidents
Microsoft fixes an Azure flaw with a… “comprehensive documentation update”
And much, much more.

This week’s show is sponsored by Yubico, maker of the Yubikey hardware authentication token. Jerrod Chong, Yubico’s COO and President joins to talk about the challenges of the passkey and hardware authenticator ecosystem.

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Risky Business #751 -- Snowflake, operation Endgame and Microsoft's looming FTC problem

Wednesday, June 5, 2024 • Duration 01:04:01

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 adventures with dot dot slash
Report says the FTC is looking at Microsoft’s security product bundling
More ransomware hits Russia
Much, much more

404 Media co-founder Joseph Cox is this week’s feature guest. He joins us to talk about his new book, Dark Wire, which is all about the FBI’s Anom sting.

This week’s show is brought to you by Resourcely. If your Terraform is a mess or your CSPM dashboards are lighting up with insane and stupid things, you should check out Resourcely. Its founder and CEO Travis McPeak will be along in this week’s sponsor interview to talk about all things Terraform.

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