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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New Lacework Cloud Hunter offers environmental analysis and improved response time

Cloud security company Lacework Inc. today announced the release of a new cloud threat report and a new open-source tool for cloud security efficacy testing. The new “Cloud Hunter” tool is designed to help customers keep pace with ever-improving adversarial tradecraft through advanced environmental analysis and improved incident response time. Cloud Hunter uses the Lacework Query Language ...

Tanium Benchmark helps prioritize efforts and collaboration in risk mitigation

Cybersecurity software provider Tanium Inc. today announced the launch of a new solution that delivers real-time holistic assessments of the security and operational risks associated with connected endpoints. Tanium Benchmark is designed to help teams prioritize efforts, collaborate effectively and take risk-mitigation action while reducing information technology costs and complexity. Powered by the Tanium XEM platform, the solution determines ...

Red Sift acquires Hardenize to enrich, extend and improve its security solutions

Cloud email security and brand protection startup Redsift Ltd. revealed today that it has acquired attack surface management company Hardenize Ltd. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2016, Hardenize offers a platform for automated discovery and monitoring of an entire network perimeter. The company’s continuous monitoring and discovery services monitor infrastructure and certificates to prevent breakage and ...

Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Microsoft Azure now generally available

Cloud computing company Nutanix Inc. today announced the general availability of Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Microsoft Azure, extending its hybrid cloud environment to Microsoft Corp.’s Azure dedicated bare metal nodes. The NC2 service on Azure offers seamless, hyper-converged infrastructure and unified management that spans private and public cloud environments to accelerate hybrid cloud adoption. NC2 ...

Hacker steals $116M in cryptocurrency in attack on Mango Markets

Solana-based trading platform Mango Markets has lost around $116 million in cryptocurrency after a hacker is believed to have undertaken a “flash loan” attack. A flash loan attack is a decentralized finance attack where a cybercriminal takes out a flash loan — a noncollateralized loan from a lending protocol — and then manipulates the price ...

Diagrid launches with fully managed Dapr platform, $20M in new funding

Developer software startup Diagrid Inc. today launched out of stealth mode, announcing that it has raised $20 million in new funding to invest in serving the open-source community and to build a suite of commercial tools and services for engineering teams. Norwest Venture Partners led the Series A round, with Amplify Partners and Quiet Capital also participating. Including ...

New Malwarebytes service combines endpoint detection and response with human-delivered expertise

Cybersecurity software firm Malwarebytes Inc. today launched a new managed detection and response product that combines endpoint detection and response with human-delivered security expertise to provide nonstop threat hunting, monitoring and response. Malwarebytes MDR is designed to assist organizations that lack the time and expertise to monitor and validate security alerts amid a shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals. ...

Cloudera debuts new hybrid capabilities for moving data at large scale

Big-data company Cloudera Inc. has today announced new hybrid data capabilities designed to allow organizations to move data, metadata, data workloads and data applications efficiently across cloud and on-premises data services. Leading the list are new portable data services that the company says will enable simple, low-risk data workload and application movement for data lakehouses, a ...

Google launches passkey support for developers on Android and Chrome

Google LLC today announced that it’s launching passkey support for developers on Android and Chrome as part of a push for the widespread adoption of passkeys. Passkeys are an industry standard designed to remove passwords for online authentication. Google, along with Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp., announced their plans to support passkeys in May, with ...

Toyota warns of possible data theft after access key left exposed on GitHub

Toyota Motor Co. has warned that nearly 300,000 customers may have had their data stolen in the third data breach related to the company this year. The potential data breach was uncovered after it was found that an access key to Toyota T-Connect, the official Toyota connectivity app, was left publicly available on GitHub for ...