Best Project Salt Run Podcasts (2025)

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27 Weeks to Go: Running, Recovery, & the Reality Check 45:44

5d ago45:44

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Send us a text In this episode of Project Salt Run, Joel and Hannah sit down with running coach Nina Davis to take a no-holds-barred look at what training for a 100-day ultra marathon really looks like. Together, they unpack how far Hannah’s come — from a self-described non-runner to someone clocking 30+ kilometer weekends — and what’s made that po…

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Snake Oilers: LimaCharlie, Honeywell Cyber Insights, CobaltStrike and Outflank 38:50

1d ago38:50

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In this edition of the Snake Oilers podcast, three sponsors come along to pitch their products: LimaCharlie: A public cloud for SecOps Honeywell Cyber Insights: An OT security/discovery solution Fortra’s CobaltStrike and Outflank: Security tooling for red teamers This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes…

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28 Weeks to Go: Donuts, Despair & Doing Our Bit for the Planet 47:05

12d ago47:05

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Send us a text In this episode, Hannah and Joel dig into the wild emotional rollercoaster of climate action, and chat about how their both just trying to figure it out as they go. Discussing doubt, donuts, sweaty run clubs, and what it means to be an eco warrior in a world that often feels like it’s working against you. Hannah shares how she went f…

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Snake Oilers: Pangea, Cosive and Sysdig 47:45

12d ago47:45

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In this edition of Snake Oilers three vendors pitch host Patrick Gray on their tech: Pangea: Guardrails and security for AI agents and applications (https://pangea.cloud) Worried about your AI apps going rogue, being mean to your customers or even disclosing sensitive information? Pangea exists to address these risks. Fascinating stuff. Cosive: A t…

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Risky Business #788 -- Trump targets Chris Krebs, SentinelOne 53:35

13d ago53:35

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On this week’s show Patrick Gray talks to former NSA Cybersecurity Director Rob Joyce about Donald Trump’s unprecedented, unwarranted and completely bonkers political persecution of Chris Krebs and his employer SentinelOne. They also talk through the week’s cybersecurity news, covering: Mitre’s stewardship of the CVE database gets its funding DOGE’…

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29 Weeks to Go: Cape Town to London: Deo Kato’s Epic Run for Justice and Migration 1:06:16

19d ago1:06:16

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Send us a text In this episode, we sit down with the extraordinary Deo Kato, a trail runner, activist, and campaigner, who recently completed an awe-inspiring 8,230-mile run from Cape Town to London. Over 518 days, Deo crossed 20 countries, endured countless challenges from visa issues to physical exhaustion and even imprisonment in South Sudan. Hi…

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Wide World of Cyber: How the Trump admin is changing the cybersecurity landscape 43:29

19d ago43:29

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In this podcast, Patrick Gray chats with SentinelOne’s Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos about the huge changes afoot in the United States government and what they mean for the threat environment. From the director of NSA being fired to massive job cuts at CISA and huge foreign policy shifts, tomorrow’s threat environment is going to be very different to…

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Risky Business #787 -- Trump fires NSA director, CISA cuts inbound 53:01

20d ago53:01

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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news: Oracle quietly cops to being hacked, but immediately pivots into pretending it didn’t matter NSA and CyberCom leaders fired for not being MAGA enough US Treasury had some dusty corners it hadn’t found China in yet, looked, found China in them …which is a great …

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30 Weeks to Go: Hannahs Mental: Mental Fortitude & Running Through the Chaos 41:06

26d ago41:06

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Send us a text What does it take to push through the hardest days when your body and mind are screaming to quit? In this candid episode of Project Salt Run, Hannah Cox and Joel Chevaillier dive deep into the mental game of endurance running and life’s relentless challenges. From training for a run across India while juggling two businesses to navig…

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Risky Business #786 -- Oracle is lying 55:14

27d ago55:14

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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news: Yes, Oracle Health and Oracle Cloud did get hacked The fallout from Signalgate continues North Korean IT workers pivot to Europe Honeypot data suggests a storm is brewing for Palo Alto VPNs Canadian Anon gets arrested for hacking Texas GOP This week’s episode i…

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31 Weeks to Go: Running the World: An Epic Journey with Nick Butter 55:44

1M ago55:44

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Send us a text Join us as we sit down with Nick Butter, the incredible athlete who has run a marathon in every country in the world. From his humble beginnings in Dorset to his record-breaking adventures, Nick shares his inspiring story of adventure, resilience, and the power of perseverance. Dive into the challenges, triumphs, and lessons learned …

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Soap Box: Knocknoc glues your SSO to your firewalls for Just-in-Time network access 30:46

1M ago30:46

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In this Soap Box edition of Risky Business host Patrick Gray talks to Knocknoc CEO Adam Pointon about how to easily rein in attack surface by glueing your single sign-on service to your network controls. Do your Palo Alto and Fortinet devices really need to be discoverable by ransomware crews? Does your file transfer appliance need to be open to th…

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Risky Business #785 -- Signal-gate is actually as bad as it looks 59:05

1M ago59:05

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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news: Yes, the Trump admin really did just add a journo to their Yemen-attack-planning Signal group The Github actions hack is smaller than we thought, but was targeting crypto Remote code exec in Kubernetes, ouch Oracle denies its cloud got owned, but that sure does…

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32 Weeks to Go: The Women Who Took on an Empire (And Won!) 30:42

1M ago30:42

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Send us a text Did you know that one of the most powerful protests in history was led by women? This episode dives into the untold stories of the women behind Gandhi’s Salt March a 240-mile act of defiance against British rule that changed the course of history. From Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, who called out Gandhi himself, to the fearless women who…

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Risky Business #784 -- GitHub supply chain attack steals secrets from 23k projects 56:58

1M ago56:58

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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news: Github Actions supply chain attack loots keys and secrets from 23k projects Why a VC fund now owns a minority stake in Risky Business Media (!?!?) China doxes Taiwanese military hackers Microsoft thinks .lnk file whitespace trick isn’t worth patching but APTs s…

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33 Weeks to Go: Running the Impossible, Nikki Love on Ultra-Endurance and the Power of Mindset 1:19:50

2M ago1:19:50

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Send us a text In this episode of Project Salt Run, we sit down with ultra-runner and endurance adventurer Nikki Love, whose extraordinary feats include running across Australia and tackling some of the world’s toughest multi-day endurance challenges. Nikki shares how she went from an everyday runner to pushing the limits of human endurance, the me…

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Risky Business #783 -- Evil webcam ransomwares entire Windows network 1:03:40

2M ago1:03:40

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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news with special guest Rob Joyce, a Former Special Assistant to the US President and Director of Cybersecurity for NSA. They talk through: A realistic bluetooth-proximity phishing attack against Passkeys A very patient ransomware actor encrypts an entire enterprise …

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34 Weeks to Go: Dyslexia, Dinosaurs, and Driving Around the World: A Totally Unexpected Recipe for Success 50:49

2M ago50:49

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Send us a text Is there a secret formula for a life of adventure? Our guest, Becca, might have cracked the code. We explore how a passion for art, a love of natural history museums, and a life-changing diagnosis of dyslexia led her to drive around the world in a 75-pound car and become a travel writer and filmmaker. Get ready for a surprising conve…

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Risky Business #782 -- Are the USA and Russia cyber friends now? 50:12

2M ago50:12

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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news: Did the US decide to stop caring about Russian cyber, or not? Adam stans hard for North Korea’s massive ByBit crypto-theft Cellebrite firing Serbia is an example of the system working Starlink keeps scam compounds in Myanmar running Biggest DDoS botnet yet push…

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35 Weeks to Go: Great Hedge of India (Book) 45:35

2M ago45:35

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Send us a text Can one book change everything? For Hannah, it did! Join her and Joel as they uncover the bizarre story of the Great Hedge of India, a 4,000km barrier built for a salt tax! Now, they're retracing its steps, armed with a few old maps & alot of hope. Learn about the lost history, the challenges of mapping a forgotten route, and how you…

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Risky Business #781 -- How Bybit oopsied $1.4bn 1:02:40

2M ago1:02:40

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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news: North Korea pulls off a 1.5 billion dollar crypto heist Apple pulls Advanced Data Protection from the UK Black Basta ransomware gang’s internal chats leak Russians snoop on Signal with QR codes And Myanmar ships thousands of freed scam compound workers to Thail…

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Wide World of Cyber: DeepSeek lobs an AI hand grenade 41:02

2M ago41:02

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In this episode of the Wide World of Cyber podcast Risky Business host Patrick Gray chats with SentinelOne’s Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos about AI, DeepSeek, and regulation. From its bad transport security to its Chinese ownership and the economic implications of China “entering the chat”, everyone’s freaking out over this new model. But should they…

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36 Weeks to Go: An American who loves buses walks into a bar in Amsterdam. His life changed forever. 50:10

2M ago50:10

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Send us a text Today we deep dive into your Co-Host on the PSR podcast Joel Chevaillier (FRGS) as he explains just how he got here and his unhealthy obsession with buses. A whistle stop tour into how meeting a Portuguese guy in Amsterdam changed his life, he travelled around the world with Global Convoy, got a travel documentary on Amazon Prime, tr…

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Risky Business #780 -- ASD torched Zservers data while admins were drunk 1:00:35

2M ago1:00:35

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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Australian spooks scrubbed Medibank data off Zservers bulletproof hosting Why device code phishing is the latest trick in confusing poor users about cloud authentication Cloudflare gets blocked in Spain, but only on weekends and because of… football?…

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Risky Biz Soap Box: Run your own open source IDP with Authentik 38:02

2M ago38:02

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In this SoapBox edition of the show Patrick Gray chats to Fletcher Heisler, the CEO of open-source identity provider Authentik. The whole idea of Authentik is you can take control of an essential IT and security function: identity. Because Authentik is open source it’s extremely flexible, and if you’re running it yourself, you get to decide where y…

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37 Weeks To Go: The Truth about how we’re funding Project Salt Run 41:28

3M ago41:28

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Send us a text Ever wondered how those epic adventure expeditions really get funded? Hannah and Joel pull back the curtain on Project Salt Run's financial journey, revealing the grit, the gambles, and the ramen-fueled determination it takes to chase a world-changing goal. Hannah reveals she is NOT a secret millionaire, won't be climbing Everest any…

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Risky Business #779 -- DOGE staffer linked to The Com 58:48

3M ago58:48

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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Musk’s DOGE kid has a history with The Com Paragon fires Italy as a spyware customer Thailand cuts power to scam compounds… … and arrests Phobos/8Base Russian cybercrims The CyberCX DFIR report shows non-U2F MFA is well and truly over And much, much …

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38 Weeks to Go: How NOT to quit! Meet Dan Beaumont: The Ultra Runner Driving Project Salt Run 38:34

3M ago38:34

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Send us a text In this episode of Project Salt Run, we sit down with Dan Beaumont, the man leading the management side of this ambitious journey. Dan shares his ultra running story, what drives him to push beyond the limits, and his role in making Project Salt Run a reality. From endurance mindset to logistical challenges, get an inside look at wha…

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Risky Business #778 -- Musk's child soldiers seize control of FedGov IT systems 56:28

3M ago56:28

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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: DeepSeek leaves an unauthed database on the internet Russia hacked UK prime minister’s personal mail Australia sanctions a Telegram group… which is more sensible than it sounds Medical device backdoor turns out to be just poorly thought out upgrade f…

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39 Weeks to Go: Ultrarunning Coach Nina Davies shares advice on training, endurance mindset and how to be a Green Runner 46:20

3M ago46:20

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Send us a text Today, we’re joined by Nina Davies, Hannah’s coach and a truly inspiring figure. As the co-founder of The Green Runners, a passionate running community advocating for a healthier planet. Nina brings a wealth of experience and motivation to the table. Her mission? To guide Hannah on the incredible journey from zero training to running…

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Risky Business #777 -- It's SonicWall's turn 51:26

3M ago51:26

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Coming to you from the same room in Risky Business headquarters Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They talk through: Sonicwall firewalls hand out remote code exec like candy Mastercard make a slapstick-grade mistake with their DNS The data breach at PowerSchool and other niche SaaS providers Academic research prop…

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40 Weeks to Go: PSR Who, What & Why - Hannah gives us a deep dive 32:00

3M ago32:00

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Send us a text Hannah breaks down Project Salt Run, giving us the story of how we all came to be here and the challenges ahead we all face in order to get her to the starting line of running across the Great Hedge of India! GiveStar 1% For The Planet Better Not StopLike the Podcast? Help the project by supporting us on GofundMe & leave us a review …

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Risky Business #776 -- Trump will flex American cyber muscles 1:03:53

3M ago1:03:53

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Risky Business returns for its 19th year! Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news and there is a whole bunch of it. They discuss: The incoming Trump administration guts the CSRB Biden’s last cyber Executive Order has sensible things in it China’s breach of the US Treasury gets our reluctant admiration Ross Ulbricht - the…

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Project Salt Run teaser 1:25

3M ago1:25

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Send us a text Zero to Hero: The Journey Across India Follow the incredible story of co-host Hannah Cox as she takes on the challenge of a lifetime—training to run across India. But this podcast isn’t just about her journey; it’s about a collective adventure. Together, we explore the intersection of history, sports, and resilience, meeting the drea…

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Risky Biz Soap Box: Cool compliance tricks with the Island enterprise browser 26:40

4M ago26:40

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In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the show Patrick Gray talks to Island CEO Michael Fey about some of the cool tricks in the Island enterprise browser. You can use it to tick off so many compliance boxes, and not just cybersecurity boxes. This is largely a conversation about compliance, but it’s actually interesting and fun. These are words we …

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Risky Business #775 -- Cl0p is back, SEC hack disclosures disappoint 1:01:06

4M ago1:01:06

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On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: The SEC’s cyber incident reporting isn’t very exciting after all China Telecom on the way to being thrown out of the US The NSA/Cybercom might get two separate hats The Cl0p ransomware crew are back and taking responsibility for the Cleo hacks (Yet …

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Wide World of Cyber: SentinelOne's Chris Krebs on Chinese cyber operations 50:04

5M ago50:04

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In this edition of the Wild World of Cyber podcast Patrick Gray sits down with SentinelOne’s Chief Intelligence and Public Policy Officer Chris Krebs to talk all about Chinese cyber operations. They look at the Salt Typhoon and Volt Typhoon campaigns, the last 20 years of Chinese operations, and the evolution of the cyber roles of China’s Ministry …

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Risky Business #774 -- Cleo file transfer appliances under widespread attack 1:02:28

5M ago1:02:28

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On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Cleo file transfer products have a remote code exec, here we go again! Snowflake phases out password-based auth Chinese Sophos-exploit-dev company gets sanctioned Romania’s election gets rolled back after Tiktok changed the outcome AMD’s encrypted V…

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Risky Biz Soapbox: Enterprise Yubikeys can now be pre-registered 29:56

5M ago29:56

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In this interview Patrick Gray talks to Yubico’s COO and President Jerrod Chong about a new Yubikey feature: pre-registration. You can now ship pre-registered Yubikeys to your staff so you don’t need to rely on your staff to enrol them. They’ve achieved this with really slick Okta and Entra ID integrations. Jerrod also talks about a recent trip to …

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Risky Business #773 -- Cybercriminals are dropping like flies in Russia 57:02

5M ago57:02

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On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: The FTC decides its time to take another look at Microsoft Exxon’s opponents targeted by hackers Russian hackers keep getting sentenced and it confuses us The Feds recommend Signal, because throwing hackers out of telcos ain’t gonna happen A South K…

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Risky Business #772 -- Salt Typhoon is truly a national security disaster 1:01:05

5M ago1:01:05

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On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: A ransomware attack has crippled US supply chain software provider Blue Yonder Russian spies hack nearby wifi to get to their targets, but that doesn’t seem surprising? Salt Typhoon’s attacks on telcos are hard to solve and big on impact China’s sur…

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Risky Business #771 -- Palo Alto's firewall 0days are very, very stupid 1:01:12

5M ago1:01:12

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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Microsoft introduces some sensible sounding post-Crowdstrike changes Palo Alto patches hella-stupid bugs in its firewall management webapp CISA head Jen Easterly to depart as Trump arrives AI grandma tarpits phone scammers in family-tech-support hell…

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Risky Business #770 -- A Russian IR guy discovers extremely cool spookware 1:03:29

6M ago1:03:29

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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Apple frustrates law enforcement with iOS auto-reboot CISA says most KEV vulnerabilities in 2023 were first used as zero days Russians roll incident response on some sweet Linux spookware Regular users can create mailboxes in M365? Tor tracks down th…

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Risky Biz Soap Box: Why black box email security is dead 36:12

6M ago36:12

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In this edition of the Risky Business Soap Box we’re talking all about email security with Sublime Security co-founder Josh Kamdjou. Email security is one of the oldest product categories in security, but as you’ll hear, Josh thinks the incumbents are just doing it wrong. He joins Risky Business host Patrick Gray for this interview about Sublime’s …

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Risky Business #769 -- Sophos drops implants on Chinese exploit devs 56:51

6M ago56:51

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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Sophos drops implants on Chinese firewall exploit devs Microsoft workshops better just-in-time Windows admin privileges Snowflake hacker arrested in Canada Okta has a fun, but not very impactful auth-bypass bug Russians bring dumb-but-smart RDP clien…

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Risky Business #768 -- CSRB will investigate China's Wiretap Hacks 51:37

6M ago51:37

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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: CSRB to investigate China’s telco-wiretapping hacks Euro law enforcement takes down the Redline infostealer Someone steals Fed crypto… and then tries to quietly sneak it back in Russia sentences REvil guys to … jail? Really? Apple private cloud compu…

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Risky Biz Soap Box: Thinkst Canary's decade of deception 37:56

6M ago37:56

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In this Soap Box edition of the podcast Patrick Gray chats with Thinkst Canary founder Haroon Meer about his “decade of deception”, including: A history of Thinkst Canary including a recap of what they actually do A look at why they’re still really the only major player in the deception game A look at what companies like Microsoft are doing with de…

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Risky Business #767 – SEC fines Check Point, Mimecast, Avaya and Unisys over hacks 1:02:21

6M ago1:02:21

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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: SEC fines tech firms for downplaying the Solarwinds hacks Anonymous Sudan still looks and quacks like a Russian duck Apple proposes max 10 day TLS certificate life Oopsie! Microsoft loses a bunch of cloud logs Veeam and Fortinet are bad and should fe…

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Risky Business #766 – China hacks America's lawful intercept systems 53:57

7M ago53:57

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On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s infosec news, including: Chinese spooks all up in western telco lawful intercept Jerks ruin the Internet Archive’s day Microsoft drops a great report with a bad chart The feds make their own crypto currency and get it pumped Forti-, Palo- and Ivanti-fail And much, much more. This …

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Snake Oilers: Sandfly Security, Permiso and Wiz 40:22

7M ago40:22

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In this edition of Snake Oilers we hear pitches from three security vendors: Sandfly Security: An agentless Linux security platform that actually sounds very cool Permiso: An identity security platform founded by ex FireEye folks Wiz: The cloud security giant is getting in on code security scanning You can watch this edition of Snake Oilers on YouT…

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