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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CyberArk Secrets Hub offers simple, secure access to secrets on AWS

Information security company CyberArk Software Ltd. today announced a new security product for Amazon Web Services Inc., along with a range of enhancements for its existing product suite. The new product, CyberArk Secrets Hub, is designed to provide developers with a simple, secure and consistent way to access secrets on AWS using AWS Secrets Manager. The service allows ...

Phone scam variant uses QuickBooks to trick victims into handing over details

Researchers at INKY Technology Corp. today detailed a new phone scam variant that uses QuickBooks to trick victims into handing over personal information. The scam involves scammers setting up free 30-day trial QuickBook accounts to send invoices to potential victims. The scammers send invoices claiming that the victims had purchased an item and their credit cards ...

Blockchain gaming startup Animoca Brands raises $75M on $5.9B valuation

Blockchain gaming platform startup Animoca Brands Corp. Ltd. said today it has raised $75.32 million in new funding to fund strategic acquisitions, investments and product development, secure licenses for popular intellectual properties and advance the open metaverse. The investors in the round included Liberty City Ventures, Kingsway Capital, Alpha Wave Ventures, 10T, SG Spring Limited Partnership ...

Twitter sues Elon Musk to enforce acquisition deal

Twitter Inc. today filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk to force him to follow through on the original deal to acquire the microblogging company. The lawsuit, filed in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware, alleges that Musk (pictured) refuses to honor his obligations to Twitter and its stockholders “because the deal he ...

Three Arrows Capital founders allegedly go missing amid liquidation proceedings

The founders of cryptocurrency hedge fund Three Arrows Capital Ltd. have allegedly gone missing and are not cooperating with the company’s liquidation. Three Arrows Capital was ordered to liquidate by a court in the British Virgin Islands on June 27 after creditors sued the company following its default on debts amid the ongoing crypto winter. ...

Amazon Redshift Serverless now available alongside EMR and MSK Serverless big-data services

Amazon Web Services Inc. has today announced the general availability of its Redshift Serverless alongside EMR Serverless and MSK Serverless, services that are designed to make it easier for customers to analyze large amounts of data without having to configure, scale up or manage the underlying infrastructure. Redshift Serverless offers a serverless data warehouse to tens of thousands ...

New Tenable Nessus Expert offers greater external and cloud visibility

Network security company Tenable Inc. today announced the addition of Nessus Expert to its portfolio of vulnerability assessment solutions. The service is designed to give security consultants, penetration testers and security practitioners extended external capabilities and expanded visibility into cloud-native environments. Nessus Expert is claimed to be the first service to address managing external assets and cloud configurations head-on. ...

New Rezilion release identifies, prioritizes and remediates vulnerable software

DevSecOps automation tools startup Rezilion Inc. today announced the full availability of its new, automated vulnerability management solution. Designed to identify, prioritize and remediate vulnerable software, Rezilion’s new management solution is pitched as uniquely solving challenges in the software attack surface by applying automation at all critical stages in the software security workflow, providing security teams with ...

Ransomware gangs offer ability to search stolen data

In an evolution in ransomware and data extortion, gangs are reported to be now offering the ability to search stolen data in an effort to have victims pay ransom demands. Bleeping Computer reported today that the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang was the first to offer the feature, announcing that they have created a searchable database with leaks ...

Apple self-driving cars reportedly hit curbs, veer out of lanes at intersections

Apple Inc.’s Project Titan self-driving car project continues to be troubled, with a new report detailing delays and issues with the company’s efforts. The Information today detailed a chronology of the car, covering aspects of its development, Apple’s ability to retain talent and issues with the technology it’s trying to use. Although some of the report ...