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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Abnormal Security launches ‘CheckGPT’ to detect AI-driven email threats

Cybersecurity company Abnormal Security Corp. today announced a new service specifically designed to detect artificial intelligence-generated email attacks. The new service, called “CheckGPT,” determines when email threats, including business email compromise and other socially engineered attacks, have likely been created using generative AI tools. Abnormal Security argues that cybercriminals are harnessing the power of generative AI, ...

Cybersixgill unveils enhanced AI capabilities for threat intelligence

Cyberthreat intelligence data provider Cybersixgill today announced new enhancements to Cybersixgill IQ, its generative artificial intelligence solution launched in June. The new Cybersixgill IQ enhancements are said to be built on the premise that as good as cyberthreat intelligence is, it’s critical to match intelligence with insights that matter to each company’s specific context. IQ provides unique ...

NetSPI bridges security gaps with new ML/AI pentesting solution

Cybersecurity services and software provider NetSPI LLC today announced a new machine learning and artificial intelligence penetration testing solution to bring a more holistic and proactive approach to safeguarding machine learning model implementations. Claimed to be the first of its kind, NetSPI’s ML/AI Pentesting solution focuses on two core components: identifying, analyzing and remediating vulnerabilities on machine learning ...

Five9 to acquire data integration and analytics startup Aceyus

Call center software provider Five9 Inc. announced today that it had entered a definitive agreement to acquire data integration and analytics startup Aceyus Inc. alongside its quarterly earnings report. Founded in 2002, Aceyus offers a suite of products designed to optimize contact center operations through reporting, contact treatment management, data collection and data transformation solutions. The ...

FBI investigates ransomware attack on California-based healthcare provider

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating a ransomware attack that disrupted services at a healthcare provider based in California on Aug. 3. The attack on Prospect Medical Holdings Inc., which along with operating hospitals and medical clinics in California, also provides service in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas, was first detected on Thursday ...

Enterprise software provider OpenText reports strong results in latest quarter

Enterprise software provider OpenText Corp. today reported adjusted earnings per share of 91 cents in its fiscal fourth quarter on revenue of $1.5 billion, up 65% year-over-year year. Annual recurring revenue rose 56%, to $1.2 billion, cloud revenue rose almost 10%, to $452 million, and operating cash flow was $115 million in the quarter. The ...

Atlassian shares skyrocket on strong earnings and revenue beats

Shares in Atlassian Corp. skyrocketed in after-hours trading today after the Australian collaboration software company reported strong beats in revenue and earnings in its fourth quarter. Atlassian reported adjusted earnings of $147 million, or 57 cents per share, up from $68.5 million, or 27 cents per share, in the same quarter of last year. Revenue ...

Block and Coinbase shares fall despite earnings and revenue beats

Shares in the financial technology firms Coinbase Inc. and Block Inc. both fell in late trading today despite each company reporting better-than-expected earnings and revenue in their latest quarter. For the second quarter that ended June 30, Coinbase reported an adjusted loss of 42 cents per share on revenue of $707.9 million. Analysts had expected ...

Mixed bag in cybersecurity as Cloudflare, Fortinet and SolarWinds report quarterly earnings

Cybersecurity-related companies reporting earnings today saw a mixed bag of results, with Cloudlfare Inc. shares up, Fortinet Inc. shares down and SolarWinds Corp. shares surging. For its second quarter that ended June 30, Fortinet reported adjusted earnings per share of 38 cents, up 58% year-over-year, on revenue of $1.29 billion, up 18%. Analysts had expected adjusted ...

Google Threat Horizons report unveils emerging challenges in cloud security

Google Cloud and Google LLC’s Cybersecurity Action Team today released a new report that offers intelligence on the evolving landscape of security threats in cloud enterprises. The August 2023 Threat Horizons report details various security risks and incidents, starting with the finding that in the first quarter of 2023, credentials were a factor in more than ...