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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Jumio extends platform with KYC and anti-fraud technology from 4Stop

Digital identity management and verification startup Jumio Corp. today unveiled its extended Jumio KYX Platform, with an integrated orchestration hub benefiting from its acquisition of “know your customer,” compliance and anti-fraud firm FourStop GmbH in December. The enhanced platform streamlines fraud, eKYC and anti-money-laundering compliance management with a one-stop orchestration hub. The hub brings together global data, risk ...

HP Wolf Security expands endpoint protection with Sure Access Enterprise

HP Inc. today announced enhancements to its HP Wolf Security endpoint protection portfolio with the launch of a new product to protect access rights to sensitive data, systems and applications. HP Wolf Security’s Sure Access Enterprise is designed to prevent attackers from hijacking privileged sessions, even if a user’s endpoint device is compromised. The service keeps ...

WithSecure adds Microsoft OneDrive protection to its cloud-based security platform

WithSecure Corp., previously known as F-Secure Business, today launched a new layer of Microsoft Corp. OneDrive protection for its cloud-based security platform, WithSecure Elements. Elements is designed for organizations that either want to offload security management to a trusted managed service provider or to managing security in-house. The service allows organizations to pick and choose the ...

Snap shares fall over 25% on revenue miss, no fourth-quarter outlook

Shares in Snap Inc. dropped by over a quarter of their value in late trading after the company missed on revenue and declined once again to give an outlook in its latest earnings report. For the quarter that ended Sept. 30, Snap reported a profit before costs such as stock compensation of eight cents per ...

(ISC)² study finds an industry shortage of 3.4M cybersecurity workers

The nonprofit International Information System Security Certification Consortium, also known as (ISC)², today released the results of a new study that found a stark increase in the shortage of cybersecurity professionals. The 2022 (ISC)² Cybersecurity Workforce Study estimates that the cybersecurity workforce is at an all-time high, with 4.7 million professionals working in the field. Although that’s ...

Trilio Continuous Restore offers faster replication, restoration and migration of Kubernetes data

Cloud-native data protection firm Trilio Data Inc. today announced the general availability of a new service that offers faster levels of replication, restoration and migration of Kubernetes data and metadata from any cloud or storage platform to another. Called “Continuous Restore,” the service offers what the company says is near-instantaneous recovery times for cloud-native applications. Continuous Restore is said to ...

Microsoft data breach in September may have exposed customer information

Microsoft Corp. today revealed details of a server misconfiguration that may have compromised the data of some potential customers in September. According to a post today by the Microsoft Security Response Center, the breach related to a misconfigured Microsoft endpoint that was detected by security researchers at SOCRadar Cyber Intelligence Inc. on Sept. 24. The misconfiguration ...

Despite strong sales and profit, Tesla shares drop on revenue miss

Shares in Tesla Inc. fell in late trading after the electric car maker delivered a profit beat and a revenue miss in its latest quarter. For the quarter ended Sept. 30, Tesla reported earnings of $1.05 per share on revenue of $21.45 billion. Analysts had expected earnings of 99 cents on revenue of $21.96 billion. ...

Ransomware attacks decline despite increasing attention

A surprising new report out today from Digital Shadows Ltd. finds that ransomware attacks dropped in the third quarter, even despite cyberattacks continuing to remain highly publicized amid the invasion of Ukraine and increasing global macroeconomic uncertainty. The drop is described in the report as the result of ransomware actors regrouping and refocusing after a busy ...

SolarWinds launches new cloud-native SaaS observability platform

Information technology management software and observability company SolarWinds Worldwide LLC  today announced the launch of SolarWinds Observability, a cloud-native software-as-a-service platform that provides unified and comprehensive observability for distributed, hybrid and multicloud information technology environments. SolarWinds Observability is said to enable customers to accelerate digital transformation through powerful machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities that make ...