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

JSON vulnerabilities in Strapi open the door to hackers and data theft

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

The Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center has uncovered two critical vulnerabilities in JSON that can expose data in the open-source Node.js headless content management system Strapi. The two vulnerabilities, named CVE-2022-30617 and CVE-2022-30618, are described as sensitive data exposure vulnerabilities that may lead …

Hackers target Discord NFT groups with malicious links

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

Hackers have targeted Discord Inc. groups that were discussing nonfungible tokens in an attempt to get users to click on malicious links. At a time cryptocurrency has been hit hard, but not even close to NFTs, blockchain security company PeckShield Co. Ltd. …

SpotOn raises $300M to develop its payments platform

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

Payments startup SpotOn Transact Inc. announced today that it has raised a $300 million late-stage funding round to develop its product offering further. The Series F round was led by Dragoneer Investment Group and included Andreessen Horowitz, DST Global, Franklin Templeton, Mubadala Investment Co. …

Data-centric security startup Seclore raises $27M

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

Data-centric security startup Seclore Technology Pvt. Ltd. said today it has raised $27 million in new funding to try to become the platform of choice for enterprise data protection initiatives. Origami Capital Partners and Oquirrh Ventures led the Series C round. Including the new …

Hackers actively targeting WordPress sites running unpatched Tatsu plugin

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

Hackers are reported to be actively targeting WordPress sites with unpatched versions of the Tatsu no-code page builder plugin installed. Detailed Monday by Ram Gall at Wordfence, the large-scale attack is targeting a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Tatsu that was publicly disclosed …

FBI warns of scraping attacks targeting online checkout pages

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

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 …

Apple struggled to develop mixed reality headset because of internal politics

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

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 …

Keyfactor-Fortanix integration offers improved machine identity management

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

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 …

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

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

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 …

Cybersecurity VC firm Ballistic Ventures announces new fund, first investments

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY4 YEARS AGO

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 …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

JSON vulnerabilities in Strapi open the door to hackers and data theft

Hackers target Discord NFT groups with malicious links

SpotOn raises $300M to develop its payments platform

Data-centric security startup Seclore raises $27M

Hackers actively targeting WordPress sites running unpatched Tatsu plugin

FBI warns of scraping attacks targeting online checkout pages

Apple struggled to develop mixed reality headset because of internal politics

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

Cybersecurity VC firm Ballistic Ventures announces new fund, first investments

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