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Publishes	Daily	Episodes	100	Founded	4 years ago
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Risky Bulletin: US warns of AI-assisted attacks against Siemens PLCs

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 Fir... more

Yesterday • 6 min

Srsly Risky Biz: Trump's private hacker memo is the right idea

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 ... more

20 Aug 2026 • 31 min

Risky Bulletin: Slovakia finds Russian backdoors on its speed cameras

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

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19 Aug 2026 • 7 min

Between Two Nerds: The eye of Sauron

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. Sho... more

17 Aug 2026 • 32 min

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Recent Guests

Ian Ahl

CTO of Permiso

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Episode: Sponsored: The intrusion signals hiding in plain sight

Haroon Meer

Founder and CEO of Thinkst

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Episode: Sponsored: Thinkst on building companies that don’t suck

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Episode: Sponsored: Why Sublime doesn’t toss AI at every email

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Episode: Sponsored: Corelight’s blueprint for AI-era defence

Brandon Dixon

Co-founder and CTO of Ent AI

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Episode: Sponsored: Ent on using AI to track human behavior on the endpoint

Dylan Ayrey

Founder and CEO of Truffle Security

Truffle Security

Episode: Sponsored: Inside CISA's disastrous secrets leak

Josh Devon

Guest from Sondera

Sondera

Episode: Sponsored: Teaching AI agents the rules of the road

Jacques Louw

Chief Research Officer, Push Security

Push Security

Episode: Sponsored: Push Security goes AI threat hunting in browser telemetry

Daf Stuttard

Co‑founder, PortSwigger

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Episode: Sponsored: James Kettle built an AI hacker

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Claire Aird

Host of Risky Bulletin segment + involvement in broader show coverage

James Wilson

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Tom Uren

Co-host, discusses Seriously Risky Biz newsletter topics; host of various segments

Reviews

4.8 out of 5 stars from 227 ratings

Claire is wonderful
I find her speech extremely easy to understand, even at 1.5 (that’s my normal setting, and the Bulletin is over before I remember that😅).
Not your problem I believe but although one thing she does well is phrase sentences and paragraphs, the AI transcription (which is remarkably accurate at the word and sentence levels) invariably breaks paragraphs one sentence too early. Maybe you can put a bug in Apple’s ear on this?
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Standards Geek
Japan8 months ago
Love the podcast!
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bmbeverst
2 years ago
Professional and interesting
Does exactly what it promises - a regular short summary of key cyber security news, with some fantastic analysis of the bigger events from experts in the field. Well worth your time!
Apple Podcasts
5
Kel-nage
United Kingdom2 years ago
Great podcast but…
They produce great shows but it gets to be a hard listen when Patrick Gray always talks over everyone. He never lets them finish their thoughts without interjecting all the time. Very annoying to say the least. He clearly wants to be the star.
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3
formersmoker1360
United States2 years ago
Very informative
Very informative podcast. Love the content. Thank you.
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United States3 years ago

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Sponsored: What npm 12 fixes… and what it doesn’t

Q: So you've obviously had a lot of experience and a lot of visibility on how this has all kind of evolved over the years. But then on top of that, there's a lot of growth that Socket's experienced and that gives you a lot of insight into what's happening in the wild. Can you go into that a bit more?

We discussed how Socket flags attacks quickly and monitors the ecosystem to identify new exploitation chains, how attackers shifted from pre-install scripts to self-executing code, and the importance of a multi-layered defense that combines provenance, behavior analysis, and broad ecosystem monitoring to reduce risk.

Sponsored: Island's expansion to SASE and enterprise AI

Q: What was the thinking behind expanding from an enterprise browser to include Secure Access Service Edge and Enterprise AI?

The expansion grew out of recognizing that many customers still rely on traditional browsers but increasingly need to manage AI workloads and thick apps within a secure, policy-driven framework. The company aimed to extend protection outside the browser through Island Desktop and Island SASE, while introducing governance for AI tools and plugins.

Srsly Risky Biz: Being a North Korean hacker is about to be less fun

Q: Why has the US been underprepared for the Iranian cyber campaigns in water infrastructure?

The guests argue the problem is more about governance, crisis communication, and policy readiness than purely technical fixes; there needs to be a prepared, public-facing plan showing awareness, remediation progress, and ongoing risk management rather than simple password changes.

Srsly Risky Biz: Chipping away at Chinese AI risks

Q: What's your take on the vehicle that they used here to actually push the open letter out quickly?

The panelist argues they needed to act fast and that while the letter itself might've been assembled quickly, assembling a broader behind-the-scenes coalition would take longer; the rapid launch likely aimed to preempt policy moves and set a narrative that supports open weights.

Srsly Risky Biz: Anthropic has artificial, but not emotional, intelligence

Q: What exactly is Pfizer 702 and why is it important?

Pfizer 702 is a US surveillance provision that authorizes collection of foreign-targeted communications, with Americans potentially captured in the process. It has a sunset-driven reauthorization framework and a rolling court certification process that keeps the activity legal for a year at a time, but the lapse recently sparked debate about ongoing authorization and oversight.

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