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Risky Business
by Risky Business Media · English
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 #859 -- ARTEX damage approaches crisis levels
The episode focuses on “agentic” hacking and security news, arguing that open-source AI pen-testing frameworks—especially Artex—are accelerating incident tempo and making credential theft and…
11 Nov 2026 · 1h 10m · 30 chaptersSoap Box: Security must be more browser-centric
Push Security’s argument that security controls should be browser-centric, because phishing and data exfiltration are more detectable and controllable inside the browser than “on the wire” via secure…
9 Nov 2026 · 36m · 20 chaptersRisky Business #858 -- The $6.3b laptop
Weekly security news, centered on the Binance $6.3B hack and broader crypto, AI, and infrastructure threats, plus attacks on European supermarket freezers and other high-profile vulnerabilities.
4 Nov 2026 · 1h 1m · 30 chaptersSnake Oilers: Minimal.dev, Request Rocket and TRM Labs
A “Snake Oilers” special where three vendors pitch security products for enterprises: minimal.dev’s sandbox/runtime for AI coding agents, Request Rocket’s API gateway for fine-grained authorization…
30 Oct 2026 · 44m · 18 chaptersRisky Business #857 -- AI FUD intensifies
AI “FUD” and security risks, including agent escape research, alleged malicious behavior by Chinese models, guardrails vs cybercrime, token theft/distillation attacks, and recent PHP/HTTP2/Brotli…
28 Oct 2026 · 1h 6m · 31 chaptersRisky Business #856 -- 8-bit encryption, PHP megabugs and more
A cybersecurity news roundup focused on (1) potential PHP core “CVSS 9+” vulnerabilities, (2) an “8-bit” entropy failure in certificate authority intermediate keys, (3) an OpenCodeConsole breach…
21 Oct 2026 · 1h 5m · 29 chaptersRisky Business #855 -- ShinyHunters done sowing, enters reaping phase
Cybersecurity news roundup focused on (1) real-world attacks on internet-connected industrial/retail systems, (2) the FBI’s crackdown on ShinyHunters after the FBI PeopleSoft breach, (3) ongoing…
14 Oct 2026 · 1h 6m · 32 chaptersSoap Box: HD Moore talks OT security, frontier fearmongering and more
HD Moore (Metasploit co-creator) explains why RunZero’s asset discovery expanded into OT/IoT security, how it maps “behind-the-gateway” protocols (BACnet, KNX, Ethernet/IP, S7, Modbus), and why…
29 Sep 2026 · 34m · 14 chaptersRisky Business #854 -- We're Jevpilled
Risky Business news roundup on AI/cybersecurity incidents and policy, plus a deep dive on “Jev” (TypeSafe’s decision model) and a sponsor interview about deception tech for agentic attacks.
23 Sep 2026 · 55m · 24 chaptersRisky Business #853 -- We're all gonna die, apparently
The episode debates AI doomsday claims and focuses on practical cybersecurity risks: hype vs plausible threats, agent misuse, and real-world exploitation trends (RCEs, patch breakage, click-fix and…
16 Sep 2026 · 59m · 24 chaptersSnake Oilers: watchTowr, XBOW and CoreView
This episode of Risky Business (“Snake Oilers: watchTowr, XBOW and CoreView”) is a sponsored vendor pitch segment about rapid cyber mitigation, automated web app exploitation, and Microsoft 365…
11 Sep 2026 · 42m · 14 chaptersRisky Business #852 -- Cyber Command wants to buy shells
Cybersecurity and security policy news, plus InfoSec and AI security stories.
9 Sep 2026 · 1h 3m · 25 chaptersRisky Business #851 -- Agents are just ones and zeros, and tigers are just atoms
Security and AI news roundup plus a deep dive on endpoint AI security.
2 Sep 2026 · 59m · 24 chaptersRisky Business #850 -- Widespread AI-enabled attacks target Siemens PLCs
The episode covers multiple cyber threats, with emphasis on AI-enabled attacks against industrial control systems (Siemens PLCs), ongoing state-backed hacking (Iran-linked activity; Salt Typhoon),…
26 Aug 2026 · 1h 3m · 30 chaptersRisky Business #849 -- Trump will unleash contractors on cybercriminals
Trump memo authorizing vetted private contractors to conduct “cyber effects” (surveillance/disruption) against transnational organized crime; debate over escalation risk and contractor roles.
19 Aug 2026 · 59m · 20 chaptersSoap Box: Zero Trust(ish) Networks
“Zero Trust(ish)” networks and why Knock Knock is growing by quickly reducing exposed attack surface when patching can’t keep up, especially for internet-facing remote access and legacy systems.
14 Aug 2026 · 29m · 13 chaptersRisky Business #848 -- OpenAI comes clean
The episode covers AI safety and agent “oops” incidents, especially OpenAI’s Black Hat talk about the Hugging Face breach, plus broader cybersecurity news across critical infrastructure, telecom,…
12 Aug 2026 · 1h · 27 chaptersRisky Business #847 -- Oops! Claude's accidental hacking spree
AI agents accidentally (or “by design”) breached real systems during cybersecurity evaluations, plus a broader news roundup on security velocity, leaked credentials, crypto failures, and state-backed…
5 Aug 2026 · 1h 8m · 28 chaptersRisky Business #846 -- OpenAI built a fireplace out of wood
Debate over open-weight AI models and distillation policy; plus security news on an OpenAI agent hacking Hugging Face, proposed AI “safe harbor” and “kill switch” legislation, and multiple cyber…
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