Duncan Riley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Cloud

RingCentral shares drop on revenue miss and weak outlook

By Duncan Riley Feb 15, 2023

Shares in RingCentral Inc. dropped in late trading today after the cloud communications company missed on revenue and gave a lower-than-expected revenue outlook in its latest quarterly earnings report. For the fourth quarter that…

Security

Companies investing more to protect against identity and authentication attacks

By Duncan Riley Feb 15, 2023

Identity platform provider Okta Inc. today released a report that reveals the security apps and tools companies are investing in to defend better against the rise in identity-based and multifactor authentication attacks. The Businesses at Work…

Security

Israeli cybersecurity startup Oligo launches out of stealth with $28M in funding

By Duncan Riley Feb 15, 2023

Israeli cybersecurity startup Oligo Security today launched out of stealth mode and announced that it has raised $28 million for its runtime application security and observability solution. The funding was raised from investors including Lightspeed Venture…

Security

Group-IB report details previously unknown Indian-sponsored SideWinder campaign

By Duncan Riley Feb 15, 2023

Cybersecurity services company Group-IB Global Pvt. Ltd. has published details on previously unreported phishing operations carried out by the nation-state cyber threat actor SideWinder between June and November 2021. SideWinder, also known as Rattlesnake, Hardcore Nationalist (HN2)…

Blockchain

Cryptocurrency scams use YouTube videos to suck in potential victims

By Duncan Riley Feb 14, 2023

A new report from WithSecure Inc. details a growing network of cryptocurrency scams using thousands of YouTube videos to suck in potential victims. The thousands of videos often appear legitimate, with some receiving inauthentic…

Security

Russian hackers claim responsibility for disrupting NATO earthquake relief efforts

By Duncan Riley Feb 13, 2023

Russian government-linked hacking group Killnet has claimed responsibility for distributed denial-of-service attacks that disrupted North Atlantic Treaty Organization earthquake relief operations in Turkey and Syria. An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 struck the…

Security

Cloudflare detects and mitigates largest-ever DDoS attack on record

By Duncan Riley Feb 13, 2023

Content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc. revealed today that it has managed to detect and mitigate dozens of “hyper-volumetric” distributed denial-of-service attacks over the weekend of Feb. 11-12, including the largest reported HTTP DDoS attack…

Big Data

Palantir shares surge on strong earnings, first profitable quarter

By Duncan Riley Feb 13, 2023

Shares in Palantir Technologies Inc. surged in late trading after the big-data analytics company beat analyst expectations and reported its first-ever profitable quarter. For the fourth quarter that ended Dec. 31, Palantir reported adjusted…

Apps

Meta reportedly planning more layoffs as part of efficiency drive

By Duncan Riley Feb 12, 2023

Meta Platforms Inc. is reportedly planning more layoffs in March as part of an efficiency drive after having laid off around 11,000 employees in November. The Financial Times, referencing employees familiar with the situation,…

Security

US and UK impose sanctions on operators of infamous TrickBot botnet

By Duncan Riley Feb 9, 2023

The U.S. and the U.K. have sanctioned seven Russian nationals for their alleged involvement in running the infamous TrickBot botnet. TrickBot dates back to 2016 and has a network of more than 1 million…

Duncan Riley

Companies investing more to protect against identity and authentication attacks

Israeli cybersecurity startup Oligo launches out of stealth with $28M in funding

Cryptocurrency scams use YouTube videos to suck in potential victims

Russian hackers claim responsibility for disrupting NATO earthquake relief efforts

Cloudflare detects and mitigates largest-ever DDoS attack on record

Palantir shares surge on strong earnings, first profitable quarter

Meta reportedly planning more layoffs as part of efficiency drive

US and UK impose sanctions on operators of infamous TrickBot botnet

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