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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NeuroBlade makes SQL processing unit available to Dell Power Edge users

Data analytics acceleration startup NeuroBlade Ltd. today announced that its NeuroBlade SQL Processing Unit will be made available to Dell Power Edge users. The collaboration, announced at the Dell Technologies World 2023 conference in Las Vegas today, is claimed to pioneer a new standard for data analytics acceleration that speeds time to insight and improves query performance ...

Israeli startup Entro raises $6M for its secrets security and management platform

Israeli cybersecurity startup Entro Security Ltd. today announced that it has raised $6 million in funding to do further development of its secrets security and management platform. Secrets security protects access keys and credentials from unauthorized access, disclosure, or use. Secrets are often programmatic access keys, such as application programming interface keys, access tokens and ...

Japanese security integration company Secom invests $192M into Eagle Eye and Brivo

Japanese security integration company Secom Co. Ltd. today announced that it has invested $192 million into two cloud-based security solutions providers: Eagle Eye Networks Inc. and Brivo Inc. Both Eagle Eye and Brivo are majority-owned by Dean Drako, the founder and former chief executive officer of Barracuda Networks Inc. Drako founded Eagle Eye in 2012 and ...

Report finds just one unpatched vulnerability increases the risk of a cyber insurance claim by 33%

A new report from cybersecurity and cyber insurance startup Coalition Inc. finds that policyholders with as few as one unresolved critical vulnerability are more likely to experience a claim. The 2023 Cyber Claims Report found that having even one unpatched vulnerability increased the risk of cyber insurance claims by 33%. The report also found that organizations that ...

SentinelOne to offer its Singularity Hologram deception solution as a service

Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne Inc. today announced plans to offer its Singularity Hologram deception solution as a service to enable security teams to detect and prevent identity-based attacks with greater speed and efficiency. Singularity Hologram is a network-based threat deception tool that lures covert threat actors and insiders into engaging and revealing themselves. The service leverages deception and decoy ...

Managed security startup Huntress raises $60M to support underserved small and midsized firms

Managed cybersecurity platform startup Huntress Labs Inc. today announced that it has raised $60 million in new funding to help underserved small to medium-sized businesses with their cybersecurity needs. Founded in 2015, Huntress offers a cybersecurity platform that uses automated detection and human-powered threat hunting to find and stop hidden threats, including those that bypass traditional security ...

Report find massive increases in threats and the targeting of shadow APIs

A new report out today from application programming interface security startup Cequence Security Inc. finds massive increases in threats and the targeting of “shadow” APIs in the last half of 2022. Based on the analysis of about 1 trillion transactions spanning various industries over the second half of 2022, the report focuses on the tactics, techniques ...

Cloudflare adds AI scanning coverage to protect intellectual property and customer data

Content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc. today announced that it has extended its Cloudflare One platform to cover generative artificial intelligence to enable enterprises to use the latest AI tools without putting intellectual property and customer data at risk. Cloudflare One for AI offers a suite of zero-trust security controls that are designed to provide a simple, fast ...

5.8M records stolen in ransomware attack on pharmacy company PharMerica

Fortune 1000 company and pharmacy services provider PharMerica Corp. has been struck by a ransomware attack, with data from 5.8 million patients stolen and published online. The theft of data was first disclosed in a breach notice filed with the Office of the Maine Attorney General. According to the notice, the breach occurred on March 12 ...

CISA adds new Linux vulnerabilities to catalog, warns they’re being actively exploited

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added seven new Linux-related vulnerabilities to its catalog and warned that they’re being actively exploited. The vulnerabilities are described as frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks to federal enterprises. Although the vulnerabilities listed are new to CISA’s database, most of the vulnerabilities ...