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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Microsoft data breach in September may have exposed customer information

Microsoft Corp. today revealed details of a server misconfiguration that may have compromised the data of some potential customers in September. According to a post today by the Microsoft Security Response Center, the breach related to a misconfigured Microsoft endpoint that was detected by security researchers at SOCRadar Cyber Intelligence Inc. on Sept. 24. The misconfiguration ...

Despite strong sales and profit, Tesla shares drop on revenue miss

Shares in Tesla Inc. fell in late trading after the electric car maker delivered a profit beat and a revenue miss in its latest quarter. For the quarter ended Sept. 30, Tesla reported earnings of $1.05 per share on revenue of $21.45 billion. Analysts had expected earnings of 99 cents on revenue of $21.96 billion. ...

Ransomware attacks decline despite increasing attention

A surprising new report out today from Digital Shadows Ltd. finds that ransomware attacks dropped in the third quarter, even despite cyberattacks continuing to remain highly publicized amid the invasion of Ukraine and increasing global macroeconomic uncertainty. The drop is described in the report as the result of ransomware actors regrouping and refocusing after a busy ...

SolarWinds launches new cloud-native SaaS observability platform

Information technology management software and observability company SolarWinds Worldwide LLC  today announced the launch of SolarWinds Observability, a cloud-native software-as-a-service platform that provides unified and comprehensive observability for distributed, hybrid and multicloud information technology environments. SolarWinds Observability is said to enable customers to accelerate digital transformation through powerful machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities that make ...

Data analytics provider Seek AI launches new B2B SaaS platform

Data analytics platform provider Seek AI Inc. has today launched a new business-to-business software-as-a-service platform that automates the mundane, repetitive work that data professionals perform within many organizations. The new platform is designed to allow data teams to automate and oversee database query projects to improve productivity, especially for sales and marketing purposes. The platform users ...

Digital risk protection startup Bolster raises $15M to fuel growth

Digital risk protection startup Bolster Inc. revealed today that it has raised $15 million in new funding to fuel company growth. Cervin, Liberty Global Ventures and Cheyenne Ventures led the extended Series A round, with Thomvest Ventures and Crosslink Capital also participating. Including the new funding, Bolster has raised $32 million to date, according to data from ...

Sophos adds third-party security support to its MDR product

Cybersecurity firm Sophos Group plc today launched new third-party security technology compatibilities with its managed detection and response or MDR service to provide better detection and remediation of attacks across diverse customer and operating environments. The new third-party support integrates telemetry from third-party endpoints, firewalls, cloud, identity, email and other security technologies as part of the Sophos ...

Fortinet SASE integrates SD-WAN connectivity with cloud-delivered security

Cybersecurity firm Fortinet Inc. today announced cloud-delivered enhancements to FortiSASE that integrate cloud-delivered software-defined wide-area network connectivity with cloud-delivered security to enable flexible secure private access. FortiSASE consolidates point products by seamlessly converging SD-WAN and security service edge, including a secure web gateway, universal zero-trust network access, cloud access security broker and firewall-as-a-service. It does so via ...

Report: Intel to drop Mobileye IPO valuation to under $20B

Intel Corp. is reported to be reducing its planned valuation for the initial public offering its Mobileye Global Inc. self-driving car unit amid an ongoing slump in public stock listings. The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, reported today that Mobileye, first reported in March to be going public at a $50 ...

Apple reportedly freezes deal to buy chips from China’s YMTC amid export bans

Apple Inc. is reported to have put on hold plans to use memory chips from Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. Ltd. in light of recent U.S. sanctions on exporting technology to Chinese companies. Citing multiple sources, Nikkei Asia reported today that the move by Apple is a sign that Washington’s crackdown is creating a chilling effect down ...