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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.

Podcast · By Risky Business Media · English · Official site

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Sep 2, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 2, 2026

    Risky Business #851 -- Agents are just ones and zeros, and tigers are just atoms (opens the original)

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    On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by guest co-host The Grugq to talk through the week’s news, including: Two alleged TeamPCP hackers got arrested in Australia The White House has a plan to boost security for water facilities, but we can’t see it working OpenAI keeps the ol’ Hugging Face discourse going for another week with an incident debrief Tech companies write another open letter about AI… we’re getting CISA Shields Up flashbacks, but for robots Much, much more… Th

  2. Episode · Aug 26, 2026

    Risky Business #850 -- Widespread AI-enabled attacks target Siemens PLCs (opens the original)

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    On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by guest co-host Ollie Whitehouse, the CTO of the UK’s NCSC, to talk through the week’s news, including: Iranian hackers take down a small-scale power generator in the UK Siemens PLCs in critical US sectors are also being targeted… We’re stumped on who could be behind that one, too. Microsoft fixed a CVSS 10 deserialisation bug in Entra before someone else found it and owned the planet Prompt injection isn’t going away LLMs are deceivi

  3. Episode · Aug 19, 2026

    Risky Business #849 -- Trump will unleash contractors on cybercriminals (opens the original)

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    On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by guest co-host Dmitri Alperovitch to talk through the week’s news, including: Trump’s memo authorising the private sector to release the cyber hounds is fine, don’t worry! OpenAI finally decides to add a few safety measures after the whole “oopsie we committed some felonies” thing Anthropic’s models start a turf war when given the same task, surprising… nobody We can’t figure out whether a device that can hack a 737 is showboating st

  4. Episode · Aug 14, 2026

    Soap Box: Zero Trust(ish) Networks (opens the original)

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    In this Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast host Patrick Gray chats with Adam Pointon, CEO of Knocknoc, about the failure of Zero Trust as a comprehensive architecture. Most networks look like they were designed in 1999, and most Zero Trust products look like they were designed for 2049. Instead, Patrick and Adam pitch something in the middle: Zero Trust(ish) networks, where Zero Trust principles are applied selectively where possible. Instead of trying to re-architect entire networks

  5. Episode · Aug 12, 2026

    Risky Business #848 -- OpenAI comes clean (opens the original)

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    On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by guest co-host Brad Arkin to talk through the week’s news, including: The AI-agent-hacks-stuff saga continues. This week we have one booting gymgoers from full classes to nab its owner a spot Somehow OpenAI’s legal team allowed the company to spill all the Hugging Face tea at BlackHat and it’s hot and delicious More details emerge about Iran’s hacking campaign against US water utilities, but Brad is unimpressed It turns out TeamPCP h

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