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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New partnership between Securiti and Lacework targets improved cloud data protection

Unified data control startup Securiti Inc. and cloud security company Lacework Inc. today announced a new strategic partnership that allows customers to safeguard their sensitive data using Lacework’s Cloud Native Application Protection Platform and Securiti’s Data Command Center. Securiti brings to the partnership contextual data intelligence and unified controls across the hybrid multicloud. Its Data Command Center delivering the ...

BianLian ransomware group shifts focus to US, European healthcare and manufacturing industries

A new report today from Palo Alto Networks Inc.’s Unit 42 details changes in how the prolific BianLian ransomware group operates as the group evolves to target primarily the healthcare and manufacturing sectors and the U.S. and Europe. BianLian first emerged around 2021 and came to widespread attention in 2022 when it targeted companies in the U.S., the U.K. ...

Myriad Venture Partners debuts with $100M to fuel AI and clean tech startups

The rise of artificial intelligence has been well-documented over the last year, and that rise has also prompted increasing interest in opportunities to invest in new AI startups. Catering to this need, Myriad Venture Partners LLC today launched as a new early-stage venture capital firm focused on artificial intelligence, clean technology and enterprise business-to-business software with an ...

Zscaler enhances network security with zero-trust architecture in latest release

Cloud security company Zscaler Inc. today debuted Zscaler Zero Trust SASE, a single-vendor secure access service edge solution, and also announced the general availability of its Zero Trust SD-WAN solution. The solutions are built on zero-trust architecture. That’s the cybersecurity concept centered on the principle that organizations should not automatically trust anything inside or outside ...

Research warns that North Korean threat group is targeting media organizations

A new report released today by SentinelLabs, the research arm of listed cybersecurity company SentinelOne Inc., provides new insights into a suspected North Korean advanced persistent threat group that is targeting media organizations and high-profile experts in North Korean affairs. Dubbed ScarCruft but also known as InkySquid and APT37, the group was observed targeting individuals, including ...

Chronosphere bolsters observability capabilities with acquisition of Calyptia

Cloud-native observability startup Chronosphere Inc. announced today that it has acquired Calyptia Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2020 by the creators of the Fluent Ecosystem, Calyptia offers an enterprise platform that helps organizations manage observability data at scale with immediate insights into the performance of their applications. The platform offers what the company calls “first-mile observability” that ...

Microsoft corporate email accounts hacked by same group behind SolarWinds hack

Microsoft Corp.’s security team has disclosed that Microsoft was targeted by a Russian-linked hacking group and that a small number of email accounts, including those belonging to senior staff, were compromised. The attack was detected on Jan. 12, with a response plan immediately implemented to disrupt the activity and investigate what had happened. The investigation ...

Have I Been Pwned adds 71M compromised credentials from the ‘Naz.API’ data set

Data breach indexing site Have I Been Pwnd has just added a new data set of almost 71 million stolen user credentials from the Naz.API data set that includes 25 million previously unknown leaks. The stolen credentials cover users on sites and services, including Facebook, Yahoo! Inc., Roblox Inc., Yammer and Coinbase Inc., and were ...

Two years after filing IPO paperwork, Reddit reportedly preparing to go public in March

Some two years after confidentially filing for an initial public offering, Reddit Inc. is getting set to go public in March, according to a report today from Reuters. The report, citing unnamed sources, says Reddit plans to make its public filing in late February, followed by a roadshow in March and then listing by the end ...

Shares of iRobot plunge as report claims EC set to block $1.7B Amazon takeover

Shares in iRobot Corp. dropped over 30% in late trading today after a report from the Wall Street Journal said the European Commission intends to block the $1.7 billion takeover of the company by Amazon.com Inc. The report, citing people familiar with the matter, claims that officials from the EC met on Thursday with representatives ...