Risky Business
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. Wi...
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- The Grugq2 eps
- Daniel Schell2 eps
- David Cottingham2 eps
Also: Dmitri Alperovitch, Brandon Dixon, Brad Arkin, Damien Lewke, Ajit Gokhale, Dafydd Stuttard, Josh Devon, Dylan Ayrey, Ed Wu, Russel Van Tuyl, Dan Green, Mark Orlando, Chris Fuller, Tim Wenzlau, Dominik Richter, Chris Wade, Edward Wu
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- 🇺🇸United States · Tech NewsHOME#16296K to 1.6M
- 🇦🇺Australia · Tech News#635K to 184K
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom · Tech News#1231K to 163K
- 🇩🇪Germany · Tech News#1222K to 116K
- 🇳🇬NG · Tech News#312K to 62K
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480K to 2.5M🎙 ~2x weekly·100 episodes·Last published 1w ago - Monthly Reach
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960K to 5.1M🇺🇸62%🇦🇺7%🇬🇧6%+14 more - Active Followers
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528K to 2.8M
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 10/14/26 | Risky Business #855 -- ShinyHunters done sowing, enters reaping phase | 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 | 1h 06m 27s | ||||||
| 9/29/26 | Soap Box: HD Moore talks OT security, frontier fearmongering and more | 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. | 34m 01s | ||||||
| 9/23/26 | Risky Business #854 -- We're Jevpilled | 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 | 54m 49s | ||||||
| 9/16/26 | Risky Business #853 -- We're all gonna die, apparently | 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 | 59m 08s | ||||||
| 9/11/26 | Snake Oilers: watchTowr, XBOW and CoreView | In this edition of the Snake Oilers podcast three vendors stop by to pitch the audience on their products: watchTowr: We’re all familiar with watchTowr’s research, but what do they actually do? XBOW: The AI pentesting company pitches its approach CoreView: Your M365 tenant is probably a security disaster. Tame it with CoreView! This episode is also available on YouTube. | 42m 00s | ||||||
| 9/9/26 | cybersecuritydata breach+5 | Robby Winchester | IDScanUS government+2 | China | cybersecuritydata breach+6 | Sublime Security | 1h 03m 29s | ||
| 9/2/26 | cybersecurityhacking+4 | The GrugqBrandon Dixon | OpenAICISA | — | TeamPCPhacking+5 | Ent AI | 58m 38s | ||
| 8/26/26 | AI-enabled attackscybersecurity+4 | Ollie Whitehouse | UK’s NCSCMicrosoft+1 | UKUS | AI attacksSiemens PLCs+5 | Okta | 1h 02m 53s | ||
| 8/19/26 | cybersecuritytechnology news+4 | Dmitri AlperovitchDamien Lewke | OpenAIAnthropic | — | cybercriminalsTrump+4 | Nebulock | 59m 06s | ||
| 8/14/26 | Zero Trustnetwork security+3 | Adam Pointon | Knocknoc | — | Zero Trustnetwork design+3 | — | 29m 04s | ||
| 8/12/26 | AIhacking+4 | Brad Arkin | OpenAIHugging Face+1 | — | AI-agent hacksOpenAI+5 | Prowler | 59m 47s | ||
| 8/5/26 | cybersecurity newsAI hacking+4 | Adam Boileau | MicrosoftColdCard | IranNorth Korea | cybersecurityAI hacking+6 | Sondera | 1h 08m 22s | ||
| 7/29/26 | cybersecurity newsOpenAI+4 | Pete Ranks | BloodhoundCIA+2 | — | cybersecurityOpenAI+5 | SpecterOps | 1h 02m 00s | ||
| 7/22/26 | cybersecurity newsOpenAI+4 | Chris Krebs | OpenAIHugging Face+1 | IranUS+1 | cybersecurityOpenAI+6 | Push Security | 1h 09m 31s | ||
| 7/8/26 | threat huntingdetection+4 | Damien Lewke | Nebulock | — | threat huntingdetection+5 | — | 35m 16s | ||
| 7/1/26 | cybersecurityAI+3 | Daf StuttardKatie Warren | AnthropicOpenAI+2 | — | cybersecurityAI+5 | Portswigger | 1h 00m 11s | ||
| 6/24/26 | cybersecurityFortibleed+5 | Rob Joyce | FortibleedSalesforce+4 | — | cybersecurityFortibleed+6 | — | 1h 03m 35s | ||
| 6/17/26 | cybersecurity newsAI safety+3 | — | Fable 5Mythos 5+5 | — | cybersecurityAI+3 | — | 59m 59s | ||
| 6/10/26 | cybersecurity newsMicrosoft security+4 | Chris Wade | CorelliumCellebrite+7 | — | Microsoftcybersecurity+7 | runZero | 1h 03m 02s | ||
| 6/5/26 | AIdetection+4 | Edward Wu | DropzoneExtrahop | — | AIdetection+4 | — | 36m 35s | ||
| 6/3/26 | cybersecurity newslocation data+3 | Andy BoydFletcher Heisler | REDLattice404 Media+2 | — | cybersecuritylocation tracking+4 | Authentik | 1h 06m 03s | ||
| 5/27/26 | cybersecurity newsGitHub breach+3 | David CottinghamDaniel Schell | TeamPCPGitHub+3 | — | TeamPCPGitHub+6 | Airlock Digital | 1h 00m 23s | ||
| 5/20/26 | cybersecuritydata breach+3 | Haroon Meer | GitHubCISA+1 | — | GitHubCISA+5 | Thinkst Canary | 1h 02m 49s | ||
| 5/15/26 | AIcloud security+3 | Toni de la Fuente | Prowler | — | AIcloud security+3 | — | 33m 37s | ||
| 5/13/26 | cybersecurity newsGitHub Actions+4 | Bobby Filar | TanStackInstructure+2 | — | cybersecurityGitHub Actions+5 | Sublime Security | 1h 05m 15s | ||
| 5/6/26 | cybersecuritypatching+4 | Brad Arkin | US GovernmentAustralian Governments | — | cybersecuritypatching+7 | SpecterOps | 1h 01m 56s | ||
| 5/1/26 | AIendpoint security+3 | Brandon DixonChris Fuller+2 | Ent AISpacewalk AI+1 | — | Ent AISpacewalk AI+5 | — | 43m 59s | ||
| 4/29/26 | cybersecurityAI technology+4 | Dmitri Alperovitch | Kimi’s new 2.6Nvidia+1 | USChina+1 | Fast16 malwarecybersecurity news+4 | Trail of Bits | 1h 06m 28s | ||
| 4/22/26 | cybersecurityinfostealer+3 | The Grugq | MythosVercel+4 | — | cybersecurityVercel+6 | Permiso | 1h 00m 33s | ||
| 4/15/26 | cybersecuritytechnology news+3 | Ajit Gokhale | Claude MythosAcrobat Reader+2 | 2026 | cybersecurityClaude Mythos+6 | Cape | 59m 45s | ||
| 4/9/26 | AI technologysecurity tools+3 | Dafydd StuttardJosh Devon+1 | Burp AIBurp Suite+4 | — | Burp AIBurp Suite+5 | — | 48m 00s | ||
| 4/8/26 | cybersecurityAI in security+4 | — | Mythos modelProject Glasswing+9 | — | cybersecurity newsAnthropic+5 | Persona | 53m 30s | ||
| 4/3/26 | hacking1990s+3 | — | DefConBlack Hat | — | hacking1990s+8 | SentinelOne | 46m 46s | ||
| 4/1/26 | cybersecurity newsAI in security+3 | Ed Wu | North KoreansTeamPCP+3 | — | cybersecurityAI+6 | Dropzone AI | 59m 40s | ||
| 3/27/26 | red teamingAI systems+3 | Russel Van Tuyl | BloodhoundBloodhound Enterprise+1 | — | red teamingAI+4 | — | 30m 11s | ||
| 3/25/26 | cybersecurity newssupply chain attacks+4 | — | Nvidia GPUsiOS exploit kit+6 | ChinaIran | cybersecuritysupply chain attack+6 | Island | 1h 03m 53s | ||
| 3/18/26 | cybersecurityAI threats+4 | Dan GreenMark Orlando | Xbox OneIran+4 | — | cybersecurityAI+6 | Push Security | 1h 03m 45s | ||
| 3/12/26 | allowlistingAI models+3 | Daniel SchellDavid Cottingham | Airlock Digital | — | allowlistingAI+3 | — | 27m 25s | ||
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Chart history for Risky Business
Peaked at #3 in IS, top 10 in 11 of 50 tracked markets, currently #3 in IS.
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| Australia | — | #6 | #6 | — |
| New Zealand | — | #7 | #7 | — |
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| South Africa | — | #7 | #7 | — |
| Netherlands | — | #8 | #8 | — |
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| Finland | — | #9 | #9 | — |
| CH | — | #11 | #11 | — |
| United Kingdom | — | #12 | #12 | — |
| Germany | — | #12 | #12 | — |
| Denmark | — | #13 | #13 | — |
| United States | — | #16 | #16 | — |
| IL | — | #16 | #16 | — |
| Norway | — | #18 | #18 | — |
| Ireland | — | #21 | #21 | — |
| AT | — | #21 | #21 | — |
Chart Positions
50 placements across 48 markets.
Chart Positions
50 placements across 48 markets.