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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FBI warns of scraping attacks targeting online checkout pages

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a flash alert warning businesses that cybersecurity actors are scraping credit card data from online checkout pages. The alert, sent Monday, states that as of January, the unidentified cyber attacker scraped credit card data from a business by injecting malicious PHP code into the business’ online checkout ...

Apple struggled to develop mixed reality headset because of internal politics

A new report today details Apple Inc.’s long struggles with building a mixed reality headset. The Information spoke with 10 people close to Apple’s headset project who detailed issues with the project going back to 2016. Apple was first reported to be working on a headset as early as 2015. Insiders in the report claim ...

Keyfactor-Fortanix integration offers improved machine identity management

Machine and “internet of things” identity platform provider Keyfactor Inc. today announced a technology integration with Fortanix Inc. to allow enterprise and managed service providers to simplify and secure machine identity management. The technology integration combines the benefits of certificate lifecycle automation with key protection in Fortanix Data Security Manager. Using the combination, the companies say, ...

Access orchestration firm Pathlock raises $200M as it combines with four other companies

Unified access orchestration startup Pathlock today announced that it has raised $200 million in new funding and has merged with data security solutions company Appsian and compliance management company Security Weaver. It also announced that it has acquired Belgium-based governance, risk and compliance management provider CSI Tools and Germany-based SAST Solutions. The new funding was led ...

Cybersecurity VC firm Ballistic Ventures announces new fund, first investments

New cybersecurity venture capital firm Ballistic Ventures Alpha LLC today announced its debut fund, expected to close at $300 million, as well as investments in several companies. Ballistic Ventures was established late last year by cybersecurity professionals and is dedicated to investing in early-stage cybersecurity and cyber-related companies. The firm describes itself as a new ...

Oxeye application testing platform scans for custom code and open source vulnerabilities

Application security testing startup Oxeye Ltd. today announced the general availability of its Cloud Native Application Security Testing platform. Debuted at KubeCon 2022, the platform identifies custom code and open-source vulnerabilities and software secrets to reveal the critical, exploitable security issues as an integral part the software development lifecycle. The platform is said to deliver developers and ...

New Microsoft Viva module delivers business goal-setting and management

Microsoft Corp. has incorporated technology from its acquisition of goal-planning and execution management software startup Ally Technologies Inc. late last year into a new product called Microsoft Viva Goals. A module released today under the Microsoft Viva employee experience platform, Viva Goals is designed for business goal setting and management. The company said it brings ...

$3B in cryptocurrency disbursed in failed attempt to prop up UST stablecoin

Luna Foundation Guard, the body tasked with managing the reserves used to support the TerraUSD or UST stablecoin, has admitted that it disbursed nearly all of its reserves in an attempt to prop up the now failed stablecoin. On Twitter today, LFG said it had disbursed 52,189 bitcoin to a “trade counterparty” as UST fell below ...

Affirm shares surge on huge earnings beat

Investors in Affirm Holdings Inc. had a good day today after the payments company reported fiscal third-quarter earnings that smashed estimates, sending its share price surging after the bell. For the quarter ended March 31, Affirm reported a net loss of $54.7 million, or 19 cents per share, vastly reducing its loss of $287 million, ...

CyberArk shares rise despite mixed earnings results

Shares in  CyberArk Software Ltd. rose in regular trading despite the information security company reporting mixed results for its fiscal first quarter early today. For the quarter ended March 31, CyberArk reported a loss before costs such as stock compensation of $11.9 million, or 30 cents per share, compared with a profit of $3.8 million, or 10 ...