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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US, UK and Canada warn that Russian hackers are targeting COVID-19 research

The U.S., U.K. and Canada today issued a joint advisory warning that a hacking group linked to Russian intelligence services is targeting COVID-19 related research. The advisory was written by the U.K. National Cyber Security Center and Canada’s Communications Security Establishment with support from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency. It points the ...

Barracuda Networks launches new SD-WAN solution for Microsoft Azure

Cloud cybersecurity firm Barracuda Networks Inc. today launched a new software-defined wide-area network service for Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud. Called Barracuda CloudGen WAN, the service is pitched as the first SD-WAN solution that runs inside Azure Virtual WAN Hubs. A virtual hub on Azure is a Microsoft-managed virtual network that enables connectivity from other networks with virtual VNet ...

Report: Cloud backup software company Datto files for initial public offering

Cloud backup software company Datto Inc. has confidentially filed for an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, according to a report today from Bloomberg. Acquired by Vista Equity Partners in 2017, the company is said to be considering whether to go public later this year or in 2021. The purchase price of Datto was ...

142M alleged MGM customer records found for sale on the dark web

A data breach involving the theft of customer records from MGM Resorts International last year may have been much larger than initially thought, with some 142 million allegedly hacked MGM customer records found for sale on the shady part of the internet known as the dark web. The data breach was discovered in February when some ...

Microsoft, SAP, Adobe and Google release updates for security vulnerabilities

The second Tuesday of each month is best known among security professionals as Patch Tuesday, the day Microsoft Corp. releases patches for security vulnerabilities across its products. This time it’s a party, as SAP SE, Adobe Systems Inc. and Google LLC all addressed security issues today as well. Microsoft led the pack with 124 patches ...

Citing security concerns, UK bans Huawei from 5G networks

Following in the footsteps of allies that include the U.S., Australia, New Zealand and Japan, the U.K. has announced that it will ban the use of equipment from Huawei Electronics Co. Ltd. across the country’s 5G network. The ban means the purchase of all Huawei 5G equipment will be prohibited in the U.K. as of ...

Venture capital drops during pandemic-plagued second quarter but starts to recover

2020 has been an unprecedented year thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, with radical changes in the way tech companies do business coupled with economic disruption that arguably is unrivaled since the Great Depression — and venture capital hasn’t been completely spared either. The VC industry was disrupted in the second quarter as predicted, but the ...

Blockchain firm Telos provides origin tracing to Spanish cider makers

Alcohol and blockchain technology may not be obvious bedfellows, but with distributed ledger technology being embraced in logistics and manufacturing, two cider companies in Spain have taken the leap into the world of blockchain product tracing. In a partnership with blockchain developer Telos, Sidra Menéndez S.L. and Llagar Castañón S.L today said they’re using Telos’ distributed ...

McAfee launches new cloud-based SIEM service for improved security operations

McAfee LLC today announced a new cloud-based security and information event management service that offers improved onboarding and related security services for security operations teams. Called the McAfee Enterprise Security Manager Cloud, the product supports detection, incident response and threat hunting activities that the company says extend the value of traditional SIEM by providing faster onboarding of ...

Breach database company DataViper allegedly hacked with billions of records offered for sale

Cyberthreat intelligence and breach database company DataViper has been allegedly hacked and its database of breached credentials offered for sale on the shady part of the internet known as the dark web. The person behind the hack claims to have stolen more than 8,200 databases containing the information of billions of users that had been ...