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Risky Business Features

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Join reformed CTO James Wilson as he dives deep on cybersecurity topics through an enterprise lens. From solo content and interviews with CISOs and researchers to vendor and startup deep dives, James does a bit of everything.

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What is Risky Business Features about?

Join reformed CTO James Wilson as he dives deep on cybersecurity topics through an enterprise lens. From solo content and interviews with CISOs and researchers to vendor and startup deep dives, James does a bit of everything.

What has Risky Business Features covered recently?

Recent episodes include "What I learned from cheating clankers" (23 October 2026, 58 minutes), "Bug count sounds impressive... but means little" (2 October 2026, 46 minutes), and "How to launder illicit Bitcoin" (15 September 2026, 46 minutes).

How often does Risky Business Features publish?

Risky Business Features publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 48 minutes across 41 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on Risky Business Features?

Booking probability for Risky Business Features is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Risky Business Features requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Risky Business Features's contact route on record: verified email.

Who should pitch Risky Business Features?

The strongest fits for Risky Business Features are IT Services & Software Development. Risky Business Features has a technology audience.

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    What I learned from cheating clankers

    Oct 23, 202658 min

    In this solo Risky Business Features episode, James Wilson looks at the string of recent AI benchmark cheating escapades and how they’ve reshaped his thinking about LLMs and vulnerability research. He explores the...

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    Bug count sounds impressive... but means little

    Oct 2, 202646 min

    In this solo Risky Business Features episode, James Wilson explains why “number of bugs” fixed in any given update is a misleading metric. We’ve seen up to 1,000 individual bug fixes in a single update recently, but...

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    How to launder illicit Bitcoin

    Sep 15, 202646 min

    In this podcast episode, investigative journalist Geoff White joins James Wilson to talk about what happens to the money after ransomware gangs get a payday. The payment itself might be in the millions, but it’s...

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    Hunting software supply chain malware

    Sep 11, 20261h 15m

    In this podcast episode, OpenSourceMalware founder Paul McCarty joins James Wilson to explain how researchers find and analyse malicious packages, GitHub repositories and developer tools. Paul walks James through static...

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    How Brian Krebs doxxed TeamPCP

    Aug 28, 202629 min

    In this podcast episode, James Wilson chats with Brian Krebs about the investigation that led him from recycled cybercrime handles and old forum records to the true identity of TeamPCP’s alleged leader in Perth. TeamPCP...

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    James Kettle on inventing new attack techniques with LLMs

    Aug 17, 20261h 18m

    In this podcast episode, James Wilson chats with PortSwigger’s Director of Research James Kettle about using an LLM to develop genuinely new attack techniques. Kettle has built what he calls the HTTP Terminator, an...

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    How private LLM inference actually works

    Aug 7, 20261h 24m

    In this podcast episode James Wilson chats with Tinfoil co-founder Tanya Verma about how you can run a powerful LLM in the cloud without the inference provider seeing your prompts. Tanya talks James through how private...

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    Benchmarks, borders and the true cost of AI regulation

    Jul 28, 202639 min

    The US government is flirting with the idea of regulating most open weight models out of existence. What would that mean for everyone who’s currently using them? Policymakers who just look at the benchmarks and token...

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    Fortibleed: The bleeding edge of AI cybercrime

    Jul 16, 202648 min

    In this podcast episode SOCRadar CISO Ensar Seker and James Wilson chat about the company’s deep dive into the Fortibleed campaign. A small investigation into a curiously open directory on an unknown server expanded...

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    What to do 'til the bugpocalypse gets here

    Jul 10, 202644 min

    In this podcast episode Brad Arkin joins James Wilson to discuss how defenders can get ahead of the late-running bugpocalypse. While we’re confident the offensive cybersecurity capabilities of frontier and open-weight...

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    Mythos on your desk? Using local LLMs for code reviews

    Jun 30, 20261h 11m

    In this podcast episode James Wilson chats with Karsten Nohl about his research into using local LLMs to replace cloud AI in security code reviews. In essence, Karsten created a hybrid code reviewing system where both...

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    Pitching security startups to VCs in the AI era

    Jun 23, 202635 min

    In this podcast Patrick Gray and James Wilson chat with Decibel Partners founder and Managing Partner Jon Sakoda to talk about pitching cybersecurity startups to VC firms in the AI age. Coding agents and large language...

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    How using open weight models can blow up in your face

    Jun 19, 202643 min

    In this podcast episode James Wilson and Brad Arkin talk about how to safely use open weight large language models in the enterprise. The cost of frontier models was already driving interest in freely available open...

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    The state of the art in AI model jailbreaks

    Jun 16, 202653 min

    In this solo podcast episode, James Wilson breaks down the current state of AI model jailbreaks. If you’ve somehow missed the story, last week Anthropic released its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models to the public. In the...

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    Why NPM v12 won’t stop supply chain attacks

    Jun 12, 202639 min

    In this podcast episode, James Wilson is joined by Open Source Malware Security co-founder Paul McCarty to talk about the supply chain attack mitigations coming in NPM v12. NPM disabling (by default) auto-run install...

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    Everything is getting much worse, much faster

    Jun 5, 202623 minS0

    <p>In this podcast Brad Arkin joins James Wilson to talk about how the fear of being left behind in the AI era means enterprises are taking risks that would have been considered insane just a couple of years ago.</p>...

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    Solo podcast: A deep dive on TeamPCP

    Jun 2, 20261h 4mS0

    <p>In this solo episode, James Wilson takes a detailed look at TeamPCP.</p> <p>It started off by launching clumsy attacks against misconfigured Kubernetes clusters in September 2025. But by February this year, TeamPCP...

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    How to survive supply chain attacks

    May 25, 202637 minS0

    <p>In this podcast James Wilson chats with Brad Arkin about why software supply chain attacks have gone from rare, once-in-a-while disasters to an operational problem affecting mainstream enterprises almost daily.</p>...

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    How the CopyFail disclosure went sideways

    May 21, 202619 minS0

    <p>In this episode, Theori’s Brian Pak and Andrew Wesie join James Wilson to discuss why the CopyFail exploit was publicly disclosed before Linux distributions had their patches ready. As you’ll hear in this episode...

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    NCSC’s Ollie Whitehouse on surviving the "bugpocalypse"

    May 18, 202629 minS0

    <p>In this edition of Risky Business Features Ollie Whitehouse, the CTO of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, joins Patrick Gray and James Wilson to talk about why “patch faster” will only get organisations so far...

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