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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SentinelOne shares drop on mixed results in first post-IPO earnings report

Shares in cybersecurity provider SentinelOne Inc. dropped in after-hours trading today after the company reported mixed results in its first earnings report after going public in June. For the quarter ended July 31, SentinelOne reported revenue jumped 121% from a year ago, to $45.8 million. The company logged a loss before costs such as stock compensation ...

Google enhances Workspace to help employees collaborate regardless of location

Google LLC today announced a series of updates for its Workspace cloud computing, productivity and collaboration tools focused on helping employees collaborate equally regardless of location, device preference, role or language. The updates cover a broad spectrum of features and tools. Leading the list is that “spaces” in Google Chat are now live for everyone. The ...

Ragnar Locker ransomware gang threatens to publish stolen data if victims contact authorities

Despite spurious reports that the infamous Ragnar Locker ransomware gang had quit and published its decryption keys, it turns out that it’s still active and actively threatening its victims. As first reported today by Bleeping Computer, the Ragnar Locker gang is warning its victims that it will leak stolen data if they contact law enforcement authorities, such ...

Microsoft acquires Australian video editing startup Clipchamp

Microsoft Corp. today said it has acquired video editing platform startup Clipchamp Pty Ltd. for an undisclosed price. Clipchamp was founded in 2013 in Brisbane, Australia, or as it terms the city, Meanjin on the traditional lands of the Yuggera Nation. The company pitches itself as a video editing platform that empowers anyone to tell ...

Smartsheet shares drop despite better-than-expected earnings

Shares in work management platform provider Smartsheet Inc. dropped in after-hours trading today despite its reporting better-than-expected second-quarter earnings results. For the quarter ended July 30, Smartsheet reported total revenue of $131.7 million, an increase of 44% year-over-year and up from $117.1 million in the previous quarter. The company’s loss before costs such as stock ...

BrakTooth Bluetooth vulnerabilities could affect billions of devices

A range of newly discovered vulnerabilities affecting Bluetooth could affect billions of devices that use the common wireless connectivity standard. Discovered and detailed today by the Automated Systems Security Research Group at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, the family of vulnerabilities has been dubbed “BrakTooth.” The researchers uncovered 16 new security vulnerabilities, with 20 ...

Secure email provider ProtonMail defends itself after sharing user internet address

Swiss secure email provider Proton Technologies AG has been forced to defend itself after providing an internet address of a French climate activist to authorities despite having a no-IP address logging policy. ProtonMail, founded in 2014, is one of the leading privacy-focused email services online and promotes itself as providing secure email communication. The service ...

US Cyber Command warns of active exploitation of Atlassian Confluence vulnerability

The U.S. Cyber Command issued a warning Friday that mass exploitation of Atlassian Corp. PLC’s Confluence software is taking place and that users should patch their installations immediately. The vulnerability, formally named CVE-2021-26084, was revealed by Atlassian on Aug. 25 and was described as allowing an authenticated user to execute arbitrary code on a Confluence Server or data ...

As Apple continues to struggle, Xiaomi enters the electric vehicle business

Chinese phone manufacturer Xiaomi Inc. is entering the electric vehicle business at a time that Apple Inc. continues to struggle to bring a car to market. Often referred to as the Apple of China, Xiaomi may not be a well-known name in the U.S., but it surpassed Apple in July to become the second-largest smartphone ...

Conti ransomware gang is targeting unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers

The Conti ransomware gang is actively targeting unpatched Microsoft Corp. Exchange servers through the same exploit used to target servers earlier this year. Discovered and detailed Friday by researchers at Sophos plc, Conti is targeting networks with ProxyShell, an evolution of the ProxyLogon attack method used by the Epsilon Red ransomware gang in May. Conti affiliates ...