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Risky Business Media 100 Episodes Aug 24, 2026

Regular cybersecurity news updates from the Risky Business team.

Episodes

Sponsored: Passkeys won’t stop authorisation phishing
Sponsored: Passkeys won’t stop authorisation phishing Aug 24, 2026 1205 In this Risky Business sponsored interview, James Wilson chats with Luke Jennings, Push Security’s VP of Research, about how stronger authentication is pushing attackers towards the authorisation layer. Device code phishing is on the rise. Luke explains how these attacks can survive passkeys and phishing-resistant MFA and, importantly, how defenders can check if th
Risky Bulletin: US warns of AI-assisted attacks against Siemens PLCs
Risky Bulletin: US warns of AI-assisted attacks against Siemens PLCs Aug 21, 2026 368 The US warns of AI-aided attacks against Siemens PLCs, hackers breach Latvia’s road traffic agency, a new hacking tool enrolls an attacker’s passkey to your account, and academics find source code overlaps between Geedge devices and China’s Great Firewall Show notes
Srsly Risky Biz: Trump's private hacker memo is the right idea
Srsly Risky Biz: Trump's private hacker memo is the right idea Aug 20, 2026 1867 Tom Uren and James Wilson talk about President Donald Trump’s memo enlisting the US private sector to tackle cybercriminals. The initiative gets the big idea right: traditional law enforcement approaches have not worked against cybercriminals so the government has turned to disruption operations, but there simply isn’t enough government capacity. So it is time to bri
Risky Bulletin: Slovakia finds Russian backdoors on its speed cameras
Risky Bulletin: Slovakia finds Russian backdoors on its speed cameras Aug 19, 2026 464 Slovakia finds Russian backdoors on its speed cameras, French police used a public exploit to hack EncroChat, Microsoft delays Exchange updates due to a deluge of AI bugs, and a ransomware-affiliate poses as a data recovery firm. Show notes Risky Bulletin: Sl
Between Two Nerds: The eye of Sauron
Between Two Nerds: The eye of Sauron Aug 18, 2026 1926 In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss The Offense Death Cycle, a paper looking at how to take advantage of a defender’s ability to control a network to discover intruders. This episode is also available on YouTube. Show notes Th
Risky Bulletin: The EU publishes its upcoming cybersecurity standards
Risky Bulletin: The EU publishes its upcoming cybersecurity standards Aug 17, 2026 517 The EU publishes its upcoming cybersecurity standards, hackers breach France’s tax agency, threat actors exploit a GeoServer zero-day hours after disclosure, and an exploit unlocks old AMD CPUs with one instruction. Show notes Risky Bulletin: The EU publishes
Sponsored: What npm 12 fixes… and what it doesn’t
Sponsored: What npm 12 fixes… and what it doesn’t Aug 17, 2026 1074 In this Risky Business sponsored interview, Casey Ellis chats with Socket founder Feross Aboukhadijeh about npm 12’s move to disable install scripts by default. Attackers are already shifting payloads into package source code, and Feross explains why teams need to understand what third-party code actually does before allowing it into their environments.
Risky Bulletin: US will let private companies carry out offensive cyber ops
Risky Bulletin: US will let private companies carry out offensive cyber ops Aug 14, 2026 667 The White House will let private companies carry out offensive cyber ops, an AI hacking campaign breached Taiwan’s government, a macOS bug was exploited over the internet to drop cryptominers, and Kenya orders internet cafes to store logs. Show notes Risky Bu
Srsly Risky Biz: Data extortion is booming. Hooray!
Srsly Risky Biz: Data extortion is booming. Hooray! Aug 13, 2026 1848 Tom Uren and James Wilson talk about the cybercrime ecosystem shifting towards data theft extortion, stealing sensitive data and extracting ransoms from victims by threatening to leak it. For organisations whose reputation is very important to them, data leaks are a bigger threat than having their files locked up. They also discuss how the rise of AI makes it worth
Risky Bulletin: Russian hackers jump on the fake job interview train
Risky Bulletin: Russian hackers jump on the fake job interview train Aug 12, 2026 552 Russian state hackers adopt fake job interview tactics, a Portuguese man will face trial for developing a malicious AI chatbot, an AI assistant hacks an Australian gym, and OpenAI releases cyber models for blue teams. Show notes Risky Bulletin: Russian hacker
Between Two Nerds: The cyber resistance!
Between Two Nerds: The cyber resistance! Aug 11, 2026 1793 In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about examples of cyber resistance and whether they achieve their goals. This epsiode is also available on YouTube. Show notes The Record on the Belarus Cyber Partisans
Risky Bulletin: Two law firms pay giant ransoms
Risky Bulletin: Two law firms pay giant ransoms Aug 10, 2026 506 Two American law firms pay multi-million dollar ransoms, a Metabase zero-day is being used in data theft attacks, Russian hackers disrupted a second power plant in Poland, and there’s a remote code execution bug in WordPress… again! Show notes Risky Bulletin:

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