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

DigitalOcean warns of email compromise after another Mailchimp breach

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

Developer cloud infrastructure provider DigitalOcean Holdings Inc. is warning some customers today that their email addresses may have been exposed following a new data breach at Intuit Inc.-owned email marketing provider Mailchimp. The breach, the second this year after an earlier one in April, was disclosed …

Argentina judiciary targeted by new ‘Play’ ransomware group

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

Argentina’s Judiciary of Córdoba has been forced to suspend its information technology services after being targeted in a ransomware attack. The attack is reported to have taken place on Aug. 13 and involves a fairly new ransomware group going by the name …

Apple reportedly lays off recruiters in push to slow hiring and spending

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

Apple Inc. has reportedly laid off contract-based recruiters as part of a push to slow hiring and spending. Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, referencing people with knowledge of the matter, claims that Apple has laid off about 100 recruiters in its offices in …

New integrate.ai platform preserves privacy in machine learning and analytics

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

Federated machine learning startup integrate.ai today announced the availability of its privacy-preserving machine learning and analytics platform. The new integrate.ai platform users federated learning and differential privacy technologies to unlock a range of machine learning and analytics capabilities on data that would …

Okta: Embrace of zero trust surging amid growing cybersecurity concerns

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

An annual survey by Okta Inc. finds that the embrace of zero-trust security is surging amid growing concern about cybersecurity challenges among enterprises. Okta’s State of Zero Trust Security 2022 report released today, based on a survey of 700 security leaders, found that …

IT managers find new challenges in backup management

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

A new report from backup monitoring and reporting company Bocada LLC finds that information technology professionals are faced with new challenges in the critical task of backups. The firm’s recent survey found that the wide variety of backup environments as well as …

Google reportedly set to lay off employees amid worsening global economy

POLICY By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

Google LLC may be set to lay off a significant number of employees amid a worsening global economic situation and multiple quarters of negative economic growth in the U.S. As reported by the New York Post late last week, Google has suspended …

Thousands of VNC instances found exposed without password protection

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

Thousands of virtual network computing instances have been found exposed online without the need for authentication, potentially allowing attackers to gain access to and take over networks easily. As detailed Friday by researchers at Cyble Inc., the issue is how VNC uses the …

Zoom patches vulnerability that could be exploited to gain root access in macOS

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

Zoom Video Communications Inc. today issued a patch for a vulnerability revealed by security researcher Patrick Wardle at the annual DEF CON Conference last week. The vulnerability, named CVE-2022-28756, was found in Zoom for macOS versions 5.7.3 to 5.11.3 and potentially allowed an …

120,000 member files compromised in Priority Health data breach

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

Michigan healthcare provider Priority Health has suffered a data breach affecting about 120,000 members. The data breach did not target the health provider directly but a third-party vendor, Warner Norcoss & Judd LLP. The breach occurred in October and is described in …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

DigitalOcean warns of email compromise after another Mailchimp breach

Argentina judiciary targeted by new ‘Play’ ransomware group

Apple reportedly lays off recruiters in push to slow hiring and spending

Okta: Embrace of zero trust surging amid growing cybersecurity concerns

Google reportedly set to lay off employees amid worsening global economy

Thousands of VNC instances found exposed without password protection

Zoom patches vulnerability that could be exploited to gain root access in macOS

120,000 member files compromised in Priority Health data breach

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