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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New Kasten by Veeam release improves experiences for Kubernetes DevOps teams

Data protection firm Veeam Software Inc. today launched a new version of its Kasten by Veeam data management platform with improved experiences that expand edge capabilities and broaden ecosystem support for data services and partner technologies. Kasten K10 V4.5 offers a range of new capabilities with features for Kubernetes DevOps teams and administrators. Leading the list is ...

Tesla sues Chinese driver after losing court case over damaged Model S

Tesla Inc. is well-known for its lawsuits, but in a new twist, the company founded and run by Elon Musk is suing a Tesla owner in China for defamation. The story starts with a Tesla Model S owner known as Han Chao, who sued Tesla after buying the vehicle second-hand from the company, then discovered ...

Internet voice provider Bandwidth.com suffers outages from denial-of-service attack

Bandwidth.com CLEC LLC, a provider of voice over internet protocol or VoIP services, continues to suffer from a distributed denial-of-service attack that has caused outages to its services. The attack began Sept. 25 and affected voice, messaging, Enhance 911 services and access to its portal. Since Bandwidth.com is also a wholesale provider to other VoIP ...

Chinese bitcoin mining company Saitech to go public on Nasdaq via SPAC

Chinese bitcoin mining company Saitech Ltd. is set to go public through a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company on the Nasdaq exchange. Under the deal, announced today, Saitech will merge with TradeUP Global Corp. on a pro forma equity value of $228 million. Some $44.9 million in cash held by TradeUP Global will be ...

Deepwatch debuts managed detection and response solution for Splunk Cloud Platform

Managed detection and response firm deepwatch Inc. today announced a new MDR solution for small to medium-sized businesses that integrates with the Splunk Inc. Cloud Platform along with other services. The new deepwatch MDR Essentials allows organizations to deploy a high-performance, automated security operations center in less than one hour. The service seamlessly integrates with the ...

Newly identified ‘Black Storm’ attack could wreak havoc on CSP networks

A newly identified cybersecurity threat coined “Black Storm” could potentially wreak havoc on communications service provider networks, according to new research released today by distributed denial-of-service protection company Nexusguard Inc.  In a typical DDoS amplification attack, those behind the attack rely on DNS servers or other similar open services to interrupt connectivity. Where a Black ...

Free ImmuniWeb service detects unprotected cloud storage from 19 providers

Application security company ImmuniWeb SA today released a new online test that rapidly detects unprotected cloud storage on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and 16 other public cloud service providers. The new free test is offered as part of the ImmuniWeb Community Edition, a set of free online tools already provided by the company. Community Edition ...

Ping Identity snaps up end-to-end security company Singular Key

Identity management software provider Ping Identity Holding Corp. announced today it has acquired end-to-end security company Singular Key Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2019, Singular Key offers passwordless identity verification with no-code identity and security orchestration. The company pitches its service as streamlining the integration of identity services, providing a no-code method of creating workflows ...

Kids fairy tale app FarFaria leaks 2.9M user details through unsecured database

FarFaria, an online app that offers fairy tales for kids two to nine years old, has been found to expose the details of its 2.9 million users. Discovered and detailed today byBob Diachenko, the head of security research at Comparitech, the data was open to all and sundry on a misconfigured MongoDB database. The data ...

DataDome launches enhanced online fraud and bot management service

Software-as-a-service bot protection startup DataDome today announced a new version of its DataDome Online Fraud & Bot Management service. The new solution provides more detailed, actionable insight into the specific threats faced by businesses and those that DataDome blocks in real time. It also offers a benchmark of how threat levels compare to others in their ...