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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Vice Society hacks Norwegian newspaper, takes credit for Spar attack

The Vice Society ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for an attack on a U.K. Spar wholesaler earlier this month and is being linked to an attack on a Norwegian newspaper this week. The first attack targeted Spar wholesaler James Hall & Co. on Dec. 6, resulting in Spar stores being unable to take card payments at ...

Tesla issues recall notice over faulty trunk latches and rear-view cameras

Shares of Tesla Inc. dropped today after the company issued a voluntary recall for hundreds of thousands of defective vehicles. The recall affects 356,309 2017-220 Model 3s and 110,009 2014-2021 Model S vehicles. The issues involve faulty latching of the vehicle’s hood and and the rear-view camera failing to display. With the Model S, the ...

Substandard living conditions prompt shutdown of iPhone plant in India

An iPhone manufacturing plant in India run by Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd., better known as Foxconn, has been temporarily shut down following complaints of substandard living and working conditions. The workers at the factory in Tamil Nadu went on strike on Dec. 17 after 250 of the workers were sickened by what they ...

Apple and Google asked to remove ‘Play to Earn’ games in South Korea

The South Korean government has asked Apple Inc. and Google LLC to remove “Play to Earn” games from their respective stores and to block the release of new ones. So-called “P2E” gaming involves players earning cryptocurrency rewards and nonfungible tokens of NFTs from playing the games. According to Play to Earn Online Magazine, the model ...

W. Virginia employees to be paid despite Kronos remaining offline following ransomware attack

State employees in West Virginia will be paid on time this week, despite the state’s payroll processing being affected by the ransomware attack on workflow management solutions provider Kronos Inc. disclosed on Dec. 13. Local media reports that state payroll administrators went to “extraordinary lengths” during the Christmas week to ensure that employees would be paid ...

Apache releases Log4j patch to address new RCE vulnerability

The Apache Software Foundation has released a new patch for Log4j, the Java-based logging utility that has seen vulnerabilities targeted en masse by hackers since Dec. 13. Log4j 2.17.1, the fifth update this month, addresses a new remote code execution vulnerability found in 2.17.0. CVE-2021-44832 allows an attacker with permission to modify the logging configuration ...

LastPass users report attempted logins using their master passwords

Some users of password manager LastPass are reporting that their master passwords have been compromised after receiving emails that someone had tried to access their accounts from unknown locations. News of the compromise first emerged Tuesday on social media, including Twitter Inc., Reddit Inc. and Y Combinator’s Hacker News. The threads tell a similar tale: ...

In a win for Meta, Oculus app tops App Store rankings at Christmas

Meta Platform Inc.’s ambitions to make the metaverse and virtual reality mainstream have gotten a boost as the Oculus app became the most popular app on Apple Inc.’s App Store on Christmas Day. The app, downloaded by Meta’s Oculus users to manage their headsets, surged to the top of the list, indicating that Oculus headsets ...

Microsoft patent shows possible Surface Trio with three screens

Microsoft Corp. has filed a patent for a three-panel foldable device that would presumably be a “Surface Trio” if it ever comes to market. Discovered today by Patently Apple, the patent was first filed in June 2020 and was only made public Dec. 23 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. It covers what Microsoft ...

Dutch regulator orders Apple to allow third-party payments in dating apps

A Dutch regulatory body has ordered Apple Inc. to allow dating apps to offer in-app purchases via third-party payment solutions, a small blow to Apple’s monopoly on payments within iOS apps. The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets made the ruling on Friday following a two-year investigation into Apple’s payment processes. The focus on dating ...