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

Blockchain security company Halborn raises $90M

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

Blockchain security company Halborn Inc. revealed today that it has raised $90 million in a new early-stage funding round led by Summit Partners. Castle Island Ventures, Digital Currency Group and Brevan Howard also participated in the Series A round. Founded in 2019, Halborn …

Google and Oracle suffer outages in UK from record-breaking heatwave

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

Cloud services and servers hosted by Google LLC and Oracle Corp. in the U.K. suffered outages today from a record-breaking heatwave in the country. Temperatures in eastern England hit 40.3 degrees Celsius (104.5 F), the highest ever recorded in the country, causing …

Twitter lawsuit scheduled for October after Musk failed to delay trial

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

Twitter Inc.’s lawsuit against Elon Musk over the Tesla chief executive’s attempt to cancel his acquisition deal will proceed in October after a Delaware Court today ruled against attempts by Musk to have the trial delayed until February. Lawyers representing Musk (pictured) …

New GhangorCloud product automates data compliance and privacy enforcement

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

Information security and data privacy provider GhangorCloud Inc. today announced a new product that automates tasks associated with data discovery, classification, mapping and consumer privacy compliance enforcement. According to the company, the Compliance and Privacy Enforcement product delivers a highly scalable architecture that can be …

Druva expands portfolio with new data posture assessment and observability capabilities

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

Cybersecurity resiliency cloud provider Druva Inc. today announced it has expanded its portfolio with new data posture assessment and observability capabilities. Druva’s new cyberattack readiness tools are designed to give customers a centralized view of their data security posture, deep visibility into …

Report finds hackers linked to Conti ransomware gang active again

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

A new report today from Intel471 Inc. has detailed how hackers linked to the Conti ransomware gang are active again in the months following ContiLeaks. Conti was a prolific ransomware gang with a long list of victims. Conti victims include Ireland’s health service, Advantech …

FBI warns fake cryptocurrency apps are defrauding investors

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation today warned that cybercriminals are creating fraudulent cryptocurrency applications to steal from investors. The FBI said in the private industry notification that cybercriminals have been contacting U.S. investors, fraudulently claiming to offer legitimate cryptocurrency services. The …

Snap launches web-based version of Snapchat for paid subscribers

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

Eleven years after launching Snapchat, Snap Inc. today launched Snapchat for Web, a web-based version of its popular service that works from a web browser. Pitched as a new way for the Snapchat community to stay connected when they’re at their computer, …

Russia bans use of cryptocurrency and NFTs to pay for goods and services

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

Russian President Vladimir Putin today signed a bill that prohibits using digital assets in the country, including cryptocurrency and nonfungible tokens, to pay for goods and services. The law, coming nearly seven months after Russia’s central bank called for a ban on …

Former CIA engineer convicted in theft of secret hacking tools and documents

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

A former U.S. Central Intelligence Agency programmer has been found guilty in the theft of secret hacking tools and documents in 2016 that were later published by Wikileaks. Joshua Schulte was arrested in 2017 after Wikileaks started publishing the stolen material and first faced …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Blockchain security company Halborn raises $90M

Google and Oracle suffer outages in UK from record-breaking heatwave

Twitter lawsuit scheduled for October after Musk failed to delay trial

Druva expands portfolio with new data posture assessment and observability capabilities

Report finds hackers linked to Conti ransomware gang active again

FBI warns fake cryptocurrency apps are defrauding investors

Snap launches web-based version of Snapchat for paid subscribers

Russia bans use of cryptocurrency and NFTs to pay for goods and services

Former CIA engineer convicted in theft of secret hacking tools and documents

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