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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Data analytics provider Seek AI launches new B2B SaaS platform

Data analytics platform provider Seek AI Inc. has today launched a new business-to-business software-as-a-service platform that automates the mundane, repetitive work that data professionals perform within many organizations. The new platform is designed to allow data teams to automate and oversee database query projects to improve productivity, especially for sales and marketing purposes. The platform users ...

Digital risk protection startup Bolster raises $15M to fuel growth

Digital risk protection startup Bolster Inc. revealed today that it has raised $15 million in new funding to fuel company growth. Cervin, Liberty Global Ventures and Cheyenne Ventures led the extended Series A round, with Thomvest Ventures and Crosslink Capital also participating. Including the new funding, Bolster has raised $32 million to date, according to data from ...

Sophos adds third-party security support to its MDR product

Cybersecurity firm Sophos Group plc today launched new third-party security technology compatibilities with its managed detection and response or MDR service to provide better detection and remediation of attacks across diverse customer and operating environments. The new third-party support integrates telemetry from third-party endpoints, firewalls, cloud, identity, email and other security technologies as part of the Sophos ...

Fortinet SASE integrates SD-WAN connectivity with cloud-delivered security

Cybersecurity firm Fortinet Inc. today announced cloud-delivered enhancements to FortiSASE that integrate cloud-delivered software-defined wide-area network connectivity with cloud-delivered security to enable flexible secure private access. FortiSASE consolidates point products by seamlessly converging SD-WAN and security service edge, including a secure web gateway, universal zero-trust network access, cloud access security broker and firewall-as-a-service. It does so via ...

Report: Intel to drop Mobileye IPO valuation to under $20B

Intel Corp. is reported to be reducing its planned valuation for the initial public offering its Mobileye Global Inc. self-driving car unit amid an ongoing slump in public stock listings. The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, reported today that Mobileye, first reported in March to be going public at a $50 ...

Apple reportedly freezes deal to buy chips from China’s YMTC amid export bans

Apple Inc. is reported to have put on hold plans to use memory chips from Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. Ltd. in light of recent U.S. sanctions on exporting technology to Chinese companies. Citing multiple sources, Nikkei Asia reported today that the move by Apple is a sign that Washington’s crackdown is creating a chilling effect down ...

Exabeam New-Scale SIEM enables security teams to ‘detect the undetectable’

Security intelligence and management solutions startup Exabeam Inc. today announced a new cloud-native security operations platform and portfolio of products that enable security teams everywhere to, as the company puts its, “detect the undetectable.” The new Exabeam Security Operations Platform is designed to give security teams the “greatest fighting chance” at defeating adversaries through a workflow for ...

Alleged Mango Markets hacker returns some funds, claims market manipulation was legal

In a bizarre twist in the alleged hacking of Solana-based trading platform Mango Markets last week, the alleged hacker has come forward and returned some of the lost funds, claiming that he undertook a legal strategy to manipulate the cryptocurrency trading platform. A Twitter user by the name of Avraham Eisenberg has claimed responsibility for removing ...

Microsoft 365 Message Encryption found to leak structural information in messages

Cybersecurity company WithSecure Oyj is warning that a security flaw in Microsoft 365 Message Encryption can leak structural information in messages. WithSecure, previously known as F-Secure until March, explained that the issue with Microsoft 365, known as Office 365 until yesterday, is that Microsoft uses an Electronic Codebook implementation. That’s a mode of operation known to ...

Report finds Microsoft’s HoloLens gives soldiers headaches

A year and a half after Microsoft Corp. won a potential $22 billion contract to supply its HoloLens augmented reality headsets to the U.S. Army, the deal isn’t looking so good after it was found that most soldiers got headaches from using the next-generation device. Bloomberg reported today that a study by the Pentagon’s testing office ...