Risky Business

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest co-host security engineer Mark El-Khoury to talk through the week’s cybersecurity news, including: The PHP foundation is about to release patches for a couple of critical bugs… We’re watching to see if the internet burns down 8 private keys underpinning some CA certs got compromised. The keys only had 8 bits of entropy! Is the breach-polcalypse upon us? OpenAI’s inside spy, Anthropic’s safety bill and election influence campaigns are coming for your chatbots Ukraine drone strikes hit more Russian data centres, this time VK’s in the firing line Much, much more! This week’s show is brought to you by Trail of Bits. Principal Security Engineer Anish Naik joins James Wilson to chat about two agent skills plugins, Patching Bugs and Regression Hunt, that the company is releasing off the back of its joint initiative with Open AI, Patch the Planet. This episode is also available on YouTube

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest co-host Brad Arkin to talk through the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Sacré bleu! Hackers turn up the heat at French supermarket freezers ShinyHunters enters “find out” stage Netscaler, Zimbra, SharePoint, Atlassian…. So many bugs exploited in the wild More models “behave badly” (by… doing exactly what we’re telling them to do) Ukraine hit another Yandex data centre in Russia and all those Texan patriots with numbers in their usernames have gone super quiet Much, much more… This week’s show is brought to you by Corelight. Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Gregory Bell joins James Wilson to chat about the company’s new white paper that looks into whether a sophisticated model or nicely structured data is more important with automated SOC work. This episode is also available on YouTube

In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray chats with industry legend HD Moore about how his company runZero wound up being used heavily to discover OT devices in enterprise networks. They also talk about the vulnpocalypse and how frontier lab fearmongering is reminiscent of the collective freakout when HD released the Metasploit exploit framework back in 2003. This episode is also available on YouTube.

THE RISKY BUSINESS WEEKLY SHOW IS NOW ON HIATUS FOR TWO WEEKS AND WILL RETURN OCTOBER 14 On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by Adam Boileau to talk through the week’s news, including: Google’s Gemini finally did some crimes OpenAI admits more agents did silly things because “alignment” US Treasury’s Scott Bessent rules out a liability waiver for the frontier labs, saying, roughly: “Lol. Lmao even.” Jev is Silicon Valley’s “hot dog/not hotdog” app brought to life, and it will really improve security tooling The FBI and Coast Guard boarded oil tankers after they were allegedly hacked Much, much more… This week’s show is brought to you by Thinkst Canary. Founder Haroon Meer joins Patrick to talk about Thinkst’s new deception tools that trick the AI agents that are targeting you. It’s actually hilarious how well deception tech works against hacking agents. This episode is also available on YouTube

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by former US Cyber Command executive director turned PwC’s Cyber, Data & Technology Risk leader Morgan Adamski to talk through the week’s news, including: More tech guys penned more open letters and AI will destroy us all! Another Wednesday, another congregation of OpenAI agents on wikis… yawn OpenAI agents were behind the headscratching RubyGems hacking campaign in May The FBI will disrupt more adversary operations, NSA is creating more mission centres, lawmakers want sanctions on hackers-for-hire… Release more hounds! So many platforms, so many bugs, so many patches breaking other stuff Much, much more… This week’s show is brought to you by Airlock Digital. Its co-founders Daniel Schell and David Cottingham join Patrick to talk about how Airlock has integrated itself with Crowdstrike via its Falcon Foundry platform. This episode is also available on YouTube