Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley is a senior writer at SiliconANGLE covering Startups, Bitcoin, and the Internet of Things. Duncan is a co-founder of VC funded media company B5Media and founder of news site The Inquisitr, and was a senior writer at TechCrunch in its earlier days. Tips? Press releases? Intersting startup? email: duncan@nichenet.com.au or contact Duncan on Twitter @duncanriley

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Cyberattack compromises emails at News Corp. outlets

A cyberattack has struck media company News Corp., compromising the emails of journalists. The attack was detected on Jan. 20 and affected News Corp. publications and business units, including The Wall Street Journal and its parent company Dow Jones, the New York Post, News U.K. and News Corp. headquarters. The form of the attack was ...

DHS establishes Cyber Safety Review Board to elevate cybersecurity

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security today announced the establishment of the Cyber Safety Review Board that will bring together government and industry leaders to elevate cybersecurity. The establishment of the CSRB is the result of a Biden Administration executive order in May that ordered that the board be created. Robert Silvers, DHS Under Secretary ...

Trust Machines raises $150M to expand bitcoin as a web3 platform

Blockchain startup Trust Machines launched out of stealth mode today with $150 million in funding to expand bitcoin as a web3 platform. Venture capital firms participating in the round include Breyer Capital, Digital Currency Group, GoldenTree, Hivemind and Union Square Ventures. Web3 is the name given to decentralized network applications that run on blockchains, as opposed to Web 2.0, ...

Wild ride: Snap shares surge on strong earnings and first-ever quarterly net profit

Shares in Snap Inc. surged in after-hours trading today after the company smashed estimates on earnings, revenue and user growth in its fourth-quarter earnings report and reported its first-ever quarterly net profit. The stock jump of nearly 60% in extended trading followed a decline of 24% in the regular session as investors assumed Snap might ...

Fortinet and Check Point shares rise on better-than-expected earnings

Shares in cybersecurity firms Fortinet Inc. and Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. rose after the companies reported better-than-expected quarterly results. For the quarter ended Dec. 31, Fortinet reported a profit before costs such as stock compensation of $205.8 million, or $1.23 per share, up from $1.06 per share a year ago. Revenue in the quarter ...

Keeper Security acquires Apache Guacamole inventor Glyptodon

Cybersecurity software startup Keeper Security Inc. today said it has acquired remote access gateway company Glyptodon Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2013, Glyptodon is the company that invented and maintains Apache Guacamole, the free and open-source, cross-platform remote access desktop gateway. In 2018, the company launched Glyptodon Enterprise, a platform designed to allow DevOps and information technology ...

Security management platform startup PlexTrac raises $70M

Security management platform startup PlexTrac Inc. has raised $70 million in new funding to accelerate its growth by expanding market reach, increasing brand awareness and doubling its headcount. Insight Partners led the Series B round, with Madrona Venture Group, Noro-Moseley Partners and StageDotO Ventures also participating. Including the new round, PlexTrax has raised $81 million to date, ...

Intel brings together elite hackers in new Project Circuit Breaker

Intel Corp. today expanded its bug bounty program with a new offering that brings together a community of elite hackers to reshape vulnerability management. The new Project Circuit Breaker brings together hackers to hunt for bugs in firmware, hypervisors, graphics processing units, chips and more. Expanding on Intel’s existing bug bounty program that opened to ...

New Lacework platform helps companies uncover suspicious activity in the multicloud

Cloud security company Lacework Inc. today unveiled a new platform designed to help companies automatically uncover suspicious activity across a multicloud environment. Called the Polygraph Data Platform, the service can detect and address genuine threats and risks to business from build time through runtime. Through a combined agentless and agent-based approach, the platform uses cloud service provider application ...

LogMeIn rebrands as GoTo to reflect its mission of making IT easy anywhere

Fresh from announcing in December that it was spinning off LastPass as a separate company, LogMeIn Inc. announced today that it’s rebranding as GoTo to better reflect the company’s mission of making information technology management easy anywhere. GoTo is an existing product within the LogMeIn portfolio. The change of name to GoTo goes beyond a new name ...