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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Intel 4th Gen Xeon series offers a leap in data center performance and efficiency

Intel Corp. today unveiled its 4th Gen Intel Xeon scalable processors, the Intel Xeon CPU Max Series and the Intel Data Center GPU Max Series, that promise a leap in data center performance and efficiency. The processors offer enhanced security and new capabilities for artificial intelligence, the cloud, the network and edge, and the world’s ...

FCC rule would require telcos to notify consumers and agencies of data breaches immediately

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has proposed a new rule for data breach reporting that would require telecommunications providers to notify consumers and agencies of any data breach immediately. Under the proposed rule change issued Friday, the existing seven business day rule to inform customers of a breach would be abolished. The new rule will require ...

Conversational AI startup NLX raises $4.6M to fuel expansion and product development

Conversation artificial intelligence startup NLX Inc. said today it has raised $4.6 million in additional funding to continue fueling its marketplace expansion and improve its product. IAG Capital Partners led the round, with previous investors JetBlue Ventures and Flying Fish Ventures also participating. Including the new funding, the company has raised $9.6 million to date. Founded in 2018, NLX ...

Identity thieves exploit security flaw to steal credit reports from Experian

Credit reporting company Experian plc is in the news for the wrong reasons again, with a report claiming that identity thieves exploited a security weakness on its website to obtain credit reports. KrebsOnSecurity reported today that identity thieves are successfully exploiting the Experian website to obtain credit reports by using a person’s name, address, birthday and ...

Hackers target cryptocurrency customers by impersonating well-known employee

Researchers at Division Seven, SafeGuard Inc.’s threat intelligence team today detailed how customers at a cryptocurrency firm they work with were targeted by a threat actor using a social engineering attack with a twist: The hackers were pretending to be a well-known employee. The investigation was launched following a report by Microsoft Security in December into targeted ...

Facebook users targeted with fake copyright notices in credential stealing campaign

Hackers and those in cybercrime can never be accused of not being creative and a new credential theft campaign highlights the fact: It uses Facebook copyright notices to obtain user credentials. Detailed today by researchers at Avanan, a Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. company, hackers are leveraging Facebook copyright infringement notices to steal credentials. The attack ...

Apple’s mixed reality headset could reportedly launch in spring

Apple Inc.’s long-awaited mixed reality headset could finally debut later this year, with a new report suggesting that the device may be launched in the northern spring ahead of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference. Mark Gurman at Bloomberg today reported that the device has already been shared with a few high-profile developers for testing and software development, ...

PitchBook: VC exits slow to a halt as market continues to struggle

Venture capital exits slowed to a halt as the rest of the market continued to struggle, according to a first look at the fourth-quarter PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor released ahead of a full report next week. For the full year, angel and seed stage deal activity continued to buck the overall downward market trend, with $21 ...

New LogRhythm capabilities offer a force multiplier for security teams

Security intelligence firm LogRhythm Inc. today announced a series of expanded capabilities and integrations that propel its service’s ability to be a much-needed force multiplier for security teams who are expected to confidently, effectively and efficiently defend against cyberattacks. Following the launch of the cloud-native security operations platform Axon in October, LogRythm is introducing new visualizations and analytics ...

Silvergate and Genesis announce layoffs amid ongoing cryptocurrency market turmoil

Two cryptocurrency-related companies have announced significant job cuts as the effects of both the collapse of FTX Trading Ltd. and the broader macroeconomic outlook continue to hit the industry particularly hard. Leading the list today was an announcement from New York Stock Exchange-listed cryptocurrency banking platform Silvergate Capital Corp. The company said that it was ...