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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BlackBerry integrates CylanceGUARD managed detection and response with AtHoc

BlackBerry Ltd. today announced a new integration that combines the managed detection and response protection of CylanceGUARD with secure critical event management powered by BlackBerry AtHoc. The combination is designed to provide BlackBerry AtHoc features to CylanceGUARD subscribers. In the event of a cyberattack, subscribers get secure, multichannel internal and stakeholder communications for incident response actions. The ...

Chinese site selling stolen accounts found exposing 600,000 records, including customer information

A Chinese site that sells stolen accounts and personal information has been found to have exposed more than 600,000 records of stolen data and customer information. Detailed Tuesday by security researcher Jerimiah Fowler at vpnMentor, the site is called Z2U and operates as a gaming market. The site pitches itself as a “trade environment between ...

Drone automation and delivery company FlyBy Robotics raises $4M

Drone automation and delivery company Flyby Robotics today announced that it has raised $4 million to fund product development with the goal of achieving Level 4 autonomy for Flyby’s flight systems, which currently perform at Level 3. At Level 4 autonomy, drones operate without any human intervention throughout the delivery process but allow a pilot in a ...

Venture capital funding drops 53% in first quarter amid ongoing macroeconomic issues

A new report today from Crunchbase Inc. finds that money flowing into venture capital continued to drop in the first quarter as growth investors further scaled back their investment pace amid ongoing worldwide macroeconomic issues. For the quarter that ended March 31, global funding came in at $76 billion, down 53% from the $162 billion invested ...

AI models security startup Cranium spun out of KPMG Studio

Cranium.ai Corp., a startup looking to ensure trust and security in artificial intelligence models, today launched as a standalone company from KPMG Studio and raised venture capital funding from SYN Ventures Management L.P. The company is the first startup to come out of KPMG Studio, KPMG International Ltd.’s tech incubator. It helps startup founders test ...

Google threat analysis researchers detail activities of North Korean ‘Archipelago’ hackers

Google LLC’s Threat Analysis Group today released new information on a subset of the North Korean hacking group known as APT43 and what it’s doing to protect users from this group. Detailed in a report from Google-owned Mandiant last month, APT43 was first detected in 2018 and has collection priorities that align with the mission of ...

IRS-approved tax filing site eFile.com found delivering malware to users for a week

A U.S. Internal Revenue Service-approved tax filing site called eFile.com has been found to be delivering malware to users for weeks. Suspicions that the site was serving malware first appeared on Reddit on March 18, with confirmation provided by security researcher Johannes Ullrich on April 3. Users reported that while using the site, they were ...

Akamai updates managed security service and launches new premium offering

Content delivery network and cloud services provider Akamai Technologies Inc. today introduced an updated managed security service program and introduced a new premium service offering to help protect customers from cyberattacks. The new capabilities help customers protect their businesses round the clock from sophisticated attacks with proactive monitoring and rapid response in the event of a cyberattack. ...

Splunk report finds security leaders are seeing increased cyberattacks and outages

A new report today from big-data analytics company Splunk Inc. reveals that security leaders continue to see an increase in cyberattacks and unplanned outages. According to the Splunk State of Security 2023 report, 52% of organizations say they have suffered a data breach in the past two years, an increase from 49% in 2022 and 39% in 2021. Some 62% ...

SaaS buying and management solution startup Splendflo raises $11M

Software-as-a-service buying and management solution startup Spendflo Inc. today announced that it has raised $11 million in new funding to fuel product growth and accelerate global expansion with a strong focus on expanding in North America. Founded in 2021, Spendflo offers an all-in-one platform to buy, manage and secure SaaS. Its Buying Hub streamlines the SaaS procurement ...