Risky Business

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 evolved into a broader security data platform that can answer questions, drive h...

On this week’s show Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover: Anthropic’s Fable 5 returning while OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 gets thrown in model jail Distillation, cheap tokens, and AI chat harvesting is an industry in China Edge becomes a lolbin via a new malicious extension An Iranian APT boss’s vacation in a beautiful place goes wrong Much, much more!...

On this week’s show special guest co-host Rob Joyce joins Patrick Gray and James Wilson to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. Rob served as an advisor to Donald Trump during his first term as president and also served at NSA for 34 years. While at the agency, Joyce led Tailored Access Operations (TAO), and later became NSA’s Director of Cybersecurity. They cover: The surprisingly well done For...

On this week’s show Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover: Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 get nuked by the US government four days after launch “because security” Why “guardrails” won’t keep the world safe from your AI doomsday machine The FISA 702 statute expired, but the spying can (probably) continue! NPM v12 delivers some protection aga...

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 disclosure instead of engaging MSRC Meta’s AI support agent allowed a staggering 20,000...

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 future? Ed has a deep expertise in SOC tech, having previously led AI/ML detection e...

On this week’s show special guest co-host Andy Boyd joins Patrick Gray and James Wilson to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. Andy is the CEO of REDLattice, which makes the Paragon “intelligence collection and reconnaissance” solution. They cover: Adversaries are tracking US troop locations with commercially available location data A new Signal phishing campaign is going after message backups...

On this week’s show Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover: TeamPCP breached GitHub’s internal repos. Now what? Some absolute plonker glued Coruna to a hijacked npm package CISA is worried about about open source and wants third party submissions for KEV AI infrastructure is “systemically” insecure Much, much more This week’s episode is sponso...

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 ditch Signal for mSzyfr Much, much more This week’s show is brought to you by Th...

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 talks us through how AI is changing the game for him as an open source project owne...

On this week’s show Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover: Mini Shai-Hulud and the TanStack compromise using Github Actions Instructure pays Canvas elearning platform data extortionists More Linux privilege escalation 0days! CISA helping critical infrastructure operators rearchitect their networks so they work offline This week’s episode is s...

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 gets mad about lame AI Agent adoption advice from the US and Australian Governments...

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. Mondoo : Co-founder Dominik Richter pitches Mondoo, an AI-powered “service as s...

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 Speaking of Chinese AI, Kimi’s new 2.6 is very interesting The US sanctions a Cambod...

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest The Grugq. They discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Vercel got owned, and there’s a few infostealer and compromised employee dots to connect Mozilla used Mythos to find 271 bugs, which feels like a sign of the bug-pocalypse Speaking of the bug-pocalypse, is that why NIST is noping out of enriching a bunch...

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 Reader bug Disgraced former Trenchant exec Peter Williams’ sob story fails to resonat...

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 Sondera , a technology designed to intervene when AI models start doing the wrong th...

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover: Anthropic’s new Mythos model hunts bugs and chains exploits together so well that… you cant have it… …Unless you’re one of their Project Glasswing partners The world isn’t short on bugs, though. F5, Fortinet, Progress ShareFile, and TrueConf are all getting rekt by humans GPU Rowhamm...

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), DefCon and Black Hat founder Chris Wysopal (Weld Pond), L0pht member, co-founder, @St...

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 “just go find some 0day in this” Kaspersky says Coruna and Triangulation do share...

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 also a pentest and red teaming shop with world class expertise in popping shells...

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James WIlson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They talk through: TeamPCP’s supply chain attack on Github, and they threw in an anti-Iran wiper, because why not?! Anthropic hooks up its models to just… use your whole computer After Stryker’s Very Bad Day, CISA says maybe add some more controls around your Intune? Another iOS exploit kit show...

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James WIlson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They discuss: Iran’s Intune-based wiper attack on medical device maker Stryker Qihoo 360’s AI publishes its own wildcard TLS cert private key Instagram is canning its end-to-end encrypted messaging What’s going on with mobile internet access in Moscow? The Xbox One’s bootloader gets voltage glit...

In this Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast Patrick Gray sits down with Airlock Digital co-founders Daniel Schell and David Cottingham to talk about the role AI models could play in managing enterprise allowlists. They also talk about the durability of allowlisting as a control. After 12 years in business, the Airlock product hasn’t really changed all that much. That’s a good thing! It...

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James WIlson discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover: The Coruna exploits were L3 Harris, but it seems Triangulation… was not! Iran’s cyber HQ hit by Israeli (kinetic) strikes Trump’s cyber “strategy” is … well, all we’ve got is jokes cause there’s no serious content NSA and CyberCom finally get a leader after Lt Gen Joshua Rudd gets Se...