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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Linux Foundation raises $10M to support open-source security project

The Linux Foundation today announced it had raised $10 million in new investments to expand and support its Open Source Security Foundation project. The funding came from members of the foundation. The long lineup: Dell Technologies Inc., Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Facebook Inc., Fidelity Investments Inc., GitHub Inc., Google LLC, International Business Machines Corp., Intel Inc., ...

Okta announces growth and new CIAM capabilities at its annual Showcase event

Okta Inc. today announced continued growth and advancements in both Okta’s and Auth0’s Customer Identity and Access Management offerings at the company’s annual Showcase event. The event, the first joint event since Okta acquired Auth0 earlier this year, showcased a shared vision to grow the CIAM market and launch of a number of new capabilities. The ...

New Datto offering helps managed service providers detect malware, phishing and more

Datto Holding Corp., which supples cloud-based software and security solutions for managed service providers, today announced a new security offering at its first virtual DattoCON NOW event. The new service, Datto SaaS Defense, offers advanced threat protection and spam-filtering for MSPs with technology that the company says proactively detects and prevents malicious malware, phishing and ...

Microsoft mitigates record denial-of-service attack targeting Azure customer

Microsoft Corp. today revealed that it mitigated a 2.4-terabytes-per-second distributed denial-of-service attack that targeted an Azure customer, the largest DDoS attack ever recorded. The attack originated from about 70,000 sources from countries in the Asia-Pacific region such as Malaysia, Vietnam, Japan and China (including Taiwan), as well as from the U.S. The attack vector was ...

Trilio highlights Kubernetes protection and enhanced support at KubeCon

Cloud-native data protection firm Trilio Data Inc. is highlighting its latest ransomware protection for Kubernetes as well as announcing new customers and support at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon event in Los Angeles and virtually this week. Trilio for Kubernetes v2.5, announced in September, offers a comprehensive approach to ransomware protection and recoverability. It does so in alignment with the ...

New 1Password ‘Psst!’ service offers secure item and password sharing

Cybersecurity and password service provider 1Password today announced a new feature that enables users to share items and passwords, including to non-1Password users, securely. The new service is called Psst!, standing for Password Secure Sharing Tool. When sharing items, users will receive a unique link that they can provide to their desired recipients. Links can be made ...

AT&T new managed XDR extends threat detection and response

AT&T Inc. today launched a new managed extended detection and response service that extends threat detection and response from the endpoint to the network to the cloud, providing broad visibility. The AT&T Managed XDR solution features a cloud-based security platform with security threat analytics, machine learning and third-party connectors. The service protects endpoint, network and cloud ...

Cloud governance and management startup cloudtamer.io raises $9.5M

Automated multicloud governance and management solution provider cloudtamer.io today announced that it has raised $9.5 million in new funding. It will be used to increase its headcount to fuel growth in the company, incorporated as Nor Labs Inc., and bring enhanced cloud governance and management capabilities to market. Blue Heron Capital and TDF Ventures led the Series A ...

Sneaky new phishing campaign uses a math symbol in the Verizon logo

Researchers at Inky Technology Corp. have uncovered a sneaky new phishing campaign that involves the use of a math symbol in the Verizon logo. The Verizon impersonation campaign, revealed today, was spotted in dozens of fake emails sent from various Gmail addresses during a two-week period between Sept. 1 and Sept. 13. Instead of using the ...

Still in business, AR headset maker Magic Leap raises $500M in new funding

Augmented reality company Magic Leap Inc., which is surprisingly still in business, has raised $500 million in new funding to roll out its second-generation AR headset next year. Usually, when a company raises money, it discloses its investors, but Magic Leap didn’t name a single one in the new round. It claims that the round was ...