Risky Business Podcast

Analysis and news podcasts published weekly

Risky Biz Soap Box: Why Mastercard became a cybersecurity vendor

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast, host Patrick Gray chats with Mastercard’s Executive Vice President and Head of Security Solutions, Johan Gerber, about how the card brand thinks about cybersecurity and why it’s aggressively investing in the space.

After listening to this interview you’ll understand why the credit card company spent $2.65b on threat intelligence vendor Recorded Future!

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Risky Biz Soap Box: Why Mastercard became a cybersecurity vendor
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Risky Business #810 -- Data extortion attacks have a silver lining

Presented by

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

  • FBI intervenes in Scattered Spider Salesforce leaksite
  • Clop loots Oracle E-Biz deployments
  • Plus so much more data extortion.. At least it’s not ransomware … we guess?
  • The US still can’t decide who’s gonna be in charge of NSA & Cybercom
  • Cambodian scam compounds get sanctioned and $15b in crypto is seized
  • NSO gets sold for pocket-lint-grade money
  • Bugs! Redis CVSS 10, Ivanti, Crowdstrike and… Internet Explorer?! zeroday?! In the wild?!!!?

This week’s episode is sponsored by Stairwell. Founder Mike Wiacek talks about how Stairwell brings VirusTotal-like visibility to private files, and about integrating the insights that brings into your SOC workflow.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Risky Business #810 -- Data extortion attacks have a silver lining
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Snake Oilers: Realm Security, Horizon3 and Persona

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

In this edition of the Snake Oilers podcast, three vendors pop in to pitch you all on their wares:

  • Realm Security: A security focussed, AI-first data pipeline platform
  • Horizon3: AI hackers! Pentesting robots!! They’re coming fer yur jerbs!
  • Persona: Verify customer and staff identities with live capture

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Snake Oilers: Realm Security, Horizon3 and Persona
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Risky Business #809 -- Hackers try to pay a journalist for access to the BBC

Presented by

Amberleigh Jack
Amberleigh Jack

Producer and Editor

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

On this week’s show Patrick Gray is on holiday so Amberleigh Jack and Adam Boileau hijack the studio to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

  • Hackers learn that trying to coerce a journalist just makes for … a great story?
  • A man in his 40s gets arrested over the European airport chaos. Yep, we’re surprised, too.
  • Adam fanboys over Watchtowr Labs while bemoaning Fortra.
  • Academics pick apart Tile trackers and find them lacking
  • CISA tells agencies to patch their damn Cisco gear

This episode is also available on YouTube.

Risky Business #809 -- Hackers try to pay a journalist for access to the BBC
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Risky Business #808 -- Insane megabug in Entra left all tenants exposed

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and special guest Rob Joyce discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

  • Secret Service raids a SIM farm in New York
  • MI6 launches a dark web portal
  • Are the 2023 Scattered Spider kids finally getting their comeuppance?
  • Production halt continues for Jaguar Land Rover
  • GitHub tightens its security after Shai-Hulud worm

This week’s episode is sponsored by Sublime Security. In this week’s sponsor interview, Sublime founder and CEO Josh Kamdjou joins host Patrick Gray to chat about the pros and cons of using agentic AI in an email security platform.

This episode is also available on YouTube

Risky Business #808 -- Insane megabug in Entra left all tenants exposed
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Risky Business #807 -- Shai-Hulud npm worm wreaks old-school havoc

Presented by

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

  • Shai-Hulud worm propagates via npm and steals credentials
  • Jaguar Land Rover attack may put smaller suppliers out of business
  • Leaked data emerges from the vendor behind the Great Firewall of China
  • Vastaamo hacker walks free while appeal is underway
  • Why is a senator so mad about Kerberos?

This week’s episode is sponsored by Knocknoc. Chief exec Adam Pointon joins to talk through the surprising number of customers that are using Knocknoc’s identity-to-firewall glue to protect internal services and networks.

This week’s episode is also available on Youtube.

Risky Business #807 -- Shai-Hulud npm worm wreaks old-school havoc
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Risky Biz Soap Box: runZero shakes up vulnerability management

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast, industry legend HD Moore joins the show to talk about runZero’s major push into vulnerability management.

With its new Nuclei integration, runZero is now able to get a very accurate picture of what’s vulnerable in your environment, without spraying highly privileged credentials at attackers on your network.

It can also integrate with your EDR platform, and other data sources, to give you powerful visibility into the true state of things on your network and in your cloud.

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Risky Biz Soap Box: runZero shakes up vulnerability management
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Risky Business #806 -- Apple's Memory Integrity Enforcement is a big deal

Presented by

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

  • Apple ruins exploit developers’ week with fresh memory corruption mitigations
  • Feross Aboukhadijeh drops by to talk about the big, dumb npm supply chain attack
  • Salesloft says its GitHub was the initial entry point for its compromise
  • Sitecore says people should “patch” its using-the-keymat-from-the-documentation “zero day”
  • Rogue certs for 1.1.1.1 appear to be just (stupid) testing
  • Jaguar Land Rover ransomware attackers are courting trouble

This week’s episode is sponsored by open source cloud security tool, Prowler. Founder Toni de la Fuente joins to discuss their new support for Microsoft 365. Time to point Prowler at your OneDrive and Sharepoint!

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Risky Business #806 -- Apple's Memory Integrity Enforcement is a big deal
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Snake Oilers: Nebulock, Vali Cyber and Cape

Presented by

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

In this edition of the Snake Oilers podcasts, three vendors pop in to pitch you all on their wares:

  • Automated, AI-powered threat hunting with Nebulock

Damien Lewke from Nebulock joins the show to talk about how its agentic AI platform can surface attacker activity out of all those “low” and “informational” findings your detection team doesn’t have time to look at.

  • Runtime security for hypervisors from Vali Cyber

Austin Gadient from Vali Cyber stops by to talk about ZeroLock, its hypervisor security product. It’s marketed as a counter-ransomware control but is just a generally useful security platform for virtualised environments.

  • A secure mobile telco: Cape

The only thing American cell providers love more than providing patchy coverage is getting their customers’ data owned. Cape is here to change that. It’s a security and anonymity-focussed virtual mobile network operator (MVNO) that’s been spun up by a highly competent team. If we lived in the USA we would be customers, and a bunch of CISOs listening to this might want to consider Cape subscriptions for their workforce.

This episode is also available on Youtube

Snake Oilers: Nebulock, Vali Cyber and Cape
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Risky Business #805 -- On the Salesloft Drift breach and "OAuth soup"

Presented by

Adam Boileau
Adam Boileau

Technology Editor

Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray

CEO and Publisher

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:

  • The Salesloft breach and why OAuth soup is a problem
  • The Salt Typhoon telco hackers turn out to be Chinese private sector, but state-directed
  • Google says it will stand up a “disruption unit”
  • Microsoft writes up a ransomware gang that’s all-in on the cloud future
  • Aussie firm hot-mics its work-from-home employees’ laptops
  • Youtube scam baiters help the feds take down a fraud ring

This episode is sponsored by Dropzone.AI. Founder and CEO Edward Wu joins the show to talk about how AI driven SOC tools can help smaller organisations claw their way above the “security poverty line”. A dedicated monitoring team, threat hunting and alert triage, in a company that only has a couple of part time infosec people? Yes please!

This episode is also available on Youtube.

Risky Business #805 -- On the Salesloft Drift breach and "OAuth soup"
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