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

Latest from Duncan Riley

Report find massive increases in threats and the targeting of shadow APIs

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY3 YEARS AGO

A new report out today from application programming interface security startup Cequence Security Inc. finds massive increases in threats and the targeting of “shadow” APIs in the last half of 2022. Based on the analysis of about 1 trillion transactions spanning various industries …

Cloudflare adds AI scanning coverage to protect intellectual property and customer data

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY3 YEARS AGO

Content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc. today announced that it has extended its Cloudflare One platform to cover generative artificial intelligence to enable enterprises to use the latest AI tools without putting intellectual property and customer data at risk. Cloudflare One for AI offers …

5.8M records stolen in ransomware attack on pharmacy company PharMerica

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY3 YEARS AGO

Fortune 1000 company and pharmacy services provider PharMerica Corp. has been struck by a ransomware attack, with data from 5.8 million patients stolen and published online. The theft of data was first disclosed in a breach notice filed with the Office of the …

CISA adds new Linux vulnerabilities to catalog, warns they’re being actively exploited

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY3 YEARS AGO

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added seven new Linux-related vulnerabilities to its catalog and warned that they’re being actively exploited. The vulnerabilities are described as frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks to federal enterprises. …

Discord suffers data breach after third-party agent was compromised

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY3 YEARS AGO

The popular messaging platform service Discord Inc. has suffered a data breach after a third-party agent was compromised. In a message to affected users first shared May 11 on Reddit, Discord said it was made aware of a brief incident that resulted in …

Attackers threaten to contact Dragos CEO’s wife and son in failed extortion attempt

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY3 YEARS AGO

Industrial control system cybersecurity firm Dragos Inc. has disclosed an attempted extortion attempt that involved those behind it going as far as threatening to contact the chief executive’s wife and five-year-old son. The disturbing extortion attempt started when a known cybercriminal group, one not …

Cybersecurity firms Gen Digital and CyberArk report mixed earnings

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY3 YEARS AGO

Cybersecurity companies Gen Digital Inc., previously known as NortonLifeLock Inc., and CyberArk Software Ltd. reported mixed results today in their quarterly earnings reports. For its fiscal fourth quarter that ended March 31, Gen Digital reported earning before costs such as stock compensation …

Elon Musk names NBCU’s Linda Yaccarino as Twitter’s new CEO

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY3 YEARS AGO

Updated: Elon Musk announced Friday that he has name Linda Yaccarino, NBC Universal Media LLC’s head of advertising, as Twitter’s new chief executive. “@LindaYacc will focus primarily on business operations, while I focus on product design & new technology,” Musk tweeted Friday. “Looking …

Traffic to malicious sites surges through March

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY3 YEARS AGO

A new report from DNS theft protection and content filtering provider DNSFilter Inc. has found a significant surge in traffic to malicious sites containing threats in the six months to March. The State of Internet Security Q1 ’23 report found that there was …

Extradited UK hacker pleads guilty to 2020 celebrity Twitter hack

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY3 YEARS AGO

The U.K. hacker behind the infamous hack of Twitter Inc. in 2020 that compromised the accounts of famous users has been extradited to the U.S., where he has pleaded guilty to various cybercrime offenses. Joseph James O’Connor, known online as “PlugWalkJoe,” was …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Report find massive increases in threats and the targeting of shadow APIs

Cloudflare adds AI scanning coverage to protect intellectual property and customer data

5.8M records stolen in ransomware attack on pharmacy company PharMerica

CISA adds new Linux vulnerabilities to catalog, warns they’re being actively exploited

Discord suffers data breach after third-party agent was compromised

Attackers threaten to contact Dragos CEO’s wife and son in failed extortion attempt

Cybersecurity firms Gen Digital and CyberArk report mixed earnings

Elon Musk names NBCU’s Linda Yaccarino as Twitter’s new CEO

Traffic to malicious sites surges through March

Extradited UK hacker pleads guilty to 2020 celebrity Twitter hack

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