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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SentinelOne achieves second-quarter profitability thanks to strong customer growth

Shares in SentinelOne Inc. rose only slightly in after-hours trading today after the cybersecurity company reported modest earnings and revenue beats in its fiscal 2025 second quarter and forecast a better-than-expected outlook for the full year. For the quarter that ended on July 31, SentinelOne reported adjusted earnings of a penny per share, reversing a loss of ...

Fortinet expands unified SASE solution with sovereign options and AI integration

Cybersecurity firm Fortinet Inc. today announced updates to its secure access service edge solution, introducing new sovereign SASE options and the integration of generative artificial intelligence capabilities to provide improved flexibility in managing hybrid networks. Fortinet Unified SASE provides complete integration between Fortinet’s Secure SD-WAN solution and cloud-delivered security service edge under a single console for seamless ...

BrowserStack acquires Bird Eats Bug to enhance bug reporting capabilities

Web and mobile testing company BrowserStack Inc. today announced that it has acquired bug reporting tool startup Bird Eats Bug for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2020 as Bird Labs GmbH, Bird Eats Bug offers a bug reporting tool that helps companies streamline their software development process by providing an efficient way to capture, track and ...

DigitalOcean enhances role-based access control with new predefined roles

Developer-oriented cloud infrastructure provider DigitalOcean Holdings Inc. today announced updates to its role-based access control for streamlined company security and operations. Digital Ocean’s role-based access control is a method for managing the use of access to systems and resources within an organization by assigning permissions to roles rather than to individual users. The updates today offer a ...

Seattle-Tacoma Airport suffers through third day of disruptions following possible ransomware attack

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle, Washington, suffered through its third day of service disruptions today after a reported cyberattack disrupted services at the airport starting on Saturday. According to the Port of Seattle, which owns and operates the airport, the attack resulted in “internet web system outages,” which impacted some of the systems at the airport. A ...

Flashpoint report reveals surge in vulnerabilities and infostealing malware in first half of 2024

A new report out today from business risk intelligence startup Flashpoint has found that new vulnerabilities that were discovered rose, though not by a lot, in the first half of this year and that cybercriminals are increasingly using info-stealing malware to steal personal information. The Flashpoint Cyber Threat Intelligence Index, based on data, trends and emerging ...

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested in France over alleged failure to moderate criminal content

Pavel Durov, the co-founder and chief executive officer of encrypted-messaging app company Telegram Messenger Inc., was arrested by French authorities on Saturday evening local time on serious charges relating to abetting terrorism, fraud, money laundering and crimes against children. The charges do not allege that Durov himself undertook any such crimes. However, it’s alleged that he ...

Depot raises $4.1M to expand build acceleration platform with new capabilities

Build acceleration startup Depot Technologies Inc. revealed today that it has raised $4.1 million in new funding to enhance its offerings by adding support for other build inputs that can benefit from Depot’s acceleration technology. Founded in 2022, Depot pitches itself as the fastest way to build Docker images and GitHub Actions workflows. Using the ...

Services at oil giant Halliburton disrupted by suspected ransomware attack

Oil giant Halliburton Co. was hit by a cyberattack on Wednesday that disrupted business operations at the company’s Houston, Texas campus, as well as some of its global networks. The exact form of the attack has not been disclosed. Halliburton said only that it was aware of an issue affecting certain systems at the company ...

Cyberthreat report from Critical Start shows significant uptick in ransomware and data leaks

A new report out today from managed detection and response company Critical Start Inc. reveals a significant uptick in cyberattacks across multiple industries, with healthcare and manufacturing emerging as primary targets in the first half of 2024. The biannual Critical Start Cyber Intelligence Report features the top threats observed in the first of 2024 and emerging ...