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

Records of 1B mainland Chinese residents offered for sale on hacking forum

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

Unknown hackers have claimed to have stolen data on as many as a billion mainland Chinese residents and are attempting to sell the data on a hacking forum. The data is alleged to have been stolen from the Shanghai National Police database …

Cryptocurrency platform Vauld suspends services amid financial challenges

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

Singapore-based cryptocurrency trading and lending platform provider Vauld has suspended all withdrawals, trading and deposits due to what it describes as “financial challenges.” In a blog post today, the company said the financial issues are the result of volatile market conditions and financial …

Meta to shut Novi cryptocurrency wallet in September

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

Meta Platforms Inc.’s longstanding and at times highly controversial cryptocurrency project is ending with the announcement July 1 that the Novi digital wallet will close on Sept. 1. The Novi digital wallet launched with a pilot program in November with custody support …

Cryptocurrency hedge fund Three Arrows Capital files for Chapter 15 bankruptcy

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

Cryptocurrency hedge fund Three Arrows Capital Ltd. has filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy in a New York court less than a week after it was ordered to liquidate its assets in the British Virgin Islands. Chapter 15 bankruptcy is a form of …

Google blocks 30+ malicious domains used by hack-for-hire groups

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

Google LLC’s Threat Analysis Group said today it has blocked more than 30 malicious domains linked to hack-for-hire groups from Russia, India and the United Arab Emirates. The hack-for-hire firms have been actively targeting Gmail and Amazon Web Services Inc. accounts, among others, …

Infrastructure-as-code security startup Oak9 raises $8M

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

Infrastructure-as-code security startup Oak9 Inc. has raised $8 million in new funding to grow its free Community Edition and help launch a next-generation “Security as Code” offering. The round was led by Menlo Ventures and included Cisco Investments, Morgan Stanley’s Next Level Fund and …

NFT marketplace OpenSea’s customer email addresses stolen by employee of contractor

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

Nonfungible token marketplace OpenSea has suffered a data breach after an employee of a third-party contractor downloaded email addresses belonging to OpenSea users and newsletter subscribers. The breach involved an employee of Customer.io downloading the email addresses and providing them to an unauthorized external …

FTX reportedly close to finalizing deal to acquire crypto lender BlockFi for $25M

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

Cryptocurrency exchange FTX Digital Markets Ltd. is reportedly close to finalizing a deal to acquire crypto lender BlockFi Lending LLC for only $25 million. CNBC reports that FTX is close to finalizing a term sheet for the deal that is expected to …

Microsoft patches Service Fabric vulnerability that opens door to attackers

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. has issued a patch for a vulnerability in Service Fabric that allows attackers to gain root privileges on a node and then take over other nodes in a cluster. Service Fabric hosts more than 1 million applications and runs on …

California firearms registration website exposes personal information

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

A California Department of Justice website relating to firearms registration has been found to be exposing personal information. A June 27 update to the Firearm Dashboard Portal exposed details of individuals who were granted or denied a concealed and carry weapons permit …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Records of 1B mainland Chinese residents offered for sale on hacking forum

Cryptocurrency platform Vauld suspends services amid financial challenges

Meta to shut Novi cryptocurrency wallet in September

Cryptocurrency hedge fund Three Arrows Capital files for Chapter 15 bankruptcy

Google blocks 30+ malicious domains used by hack-for-hire groups

NFT marketplace OpenSea’s customer email addresses stolen by employee of contractor

FTX reportedly close to finalizing deal to acquire crypto lender BlockFi for $25M

Microsoft patches Service Fabric vulnerability that opens door to attackers

California firearms registration website exposes personal information

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