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

Vulnerability in Azure App Service exposed hundreds of source code repositories

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

A vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.’s Azure App Service has been found to expose hundreds of source code repositories. Discovered by security researchers at Wiz Inc. and detailed Dec. 21, the vulnerability, dubbed “NotLegit,” involves insecure default behavior in the Azure App Service. …

Tesla under investigation over in-car gaming feature

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

The U.S. government has opened a preliminary inquiry into reports Tesla Inc. vehicles allow occupants to play video games while the car is in motion. The inquiry has been launched by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Office of Defects Investigation following a …

As new scanning tool is released, China suspends partnership with Alibaba over Log4j

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

The Chinese government has suspended a partnership with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. over the Apache Log4j vulnerability as a new open-source scanning tool has been released to help businesses identify affected services. China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the suspension …

PitchBook predicts agtech and AI will lead emerging technology funding in 2022

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

PitchBook Data Inc., the go-to company for data and research concerning technology companies, today released some interesting emerging technology predictions for 2022 — led, perhaps surprisingly, with agriculture. For the year ahead, PitchBook predicts, the agtech sector will experience record merger and …

Kraken acquires noncustodial staking services startup Staked

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken today said it has acquired Stack LLC, a provider of noncustodial staking services. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed but Kraken described it as one of the largest crypto industry acquisitions to date. Founded in 2018, Staked …

Meta acquires VR and AR optics technology company ImagineOptix

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

Meta Platforms Inc. has acquired ImagineOptix Corp., a developer of augmented and virtual reality optics technology designed to overcome optical and optoelectronics challenges in displays. The acquisition was first discovered Dec. 17 by optics analyst Karl Guttag and confirmed today by Meta to The Information. …

BlackBerry shares drop despite better-than-expected earnings report

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

Shares in BlackBerry Ltd. dropped in after-hours trading today despite the company delivering better-than-expected earnings results. For the quarter ended Nov. 30, BlackBerry reported a loss of five cents per share on revenue of $184 million, compared with a loss of 23 …

Security-as-a-service startup ContraForce launches into general availability with $2M in funding

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

Security-as-a-service startup ContraForce revealed today that it has raised $2 million in seed funding from DataTribe and has launched into general availability. Founded in 2020 by industry security and cloud experts from Armor Defense Inc., McAfee Corp. and Intel Corp., ContraForce offers no-code security …

ZeroFox acquires IDX and announces plans to go public via SPAC

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

Cybersecurity firm ZeroFox Inc. is set to go public through a special-purpose acquisition company merger with L&F Acquisition Corp. Along with the SPAC merger, ZeroFox also announced today that it’s acquiring Identity Theft Guard Solutions Inc., known as IDX. The SPAC merger …

As Apache releases new patch, researchers discover new Log4j attack vector

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

Security researchers have discovered a new attack vector that exploits the Log4j vulnerability as the Apache Foundation has released a new patch to address the overall issue. Discovered late last week by researchers at Blumira Inc., the new attack vector relies on a …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Vulnerability in Azure App Service exposed hundreds of source code repositories

Tesla under investigation over in-car gaming feature

As new scanning tool is released, China suspends partnership with Alibaba over Log4j

PitchBook predicts agtech and AI will lead emerging technology funding in 2022

Kraken acquires noncustodial staking services startup Staked

Meta acquires VR and AR optics technology company ImagineOptix

BlackBerry shares drop despite better-than-expected earnings report

Security-as-a-service startup ContraForce launches into general availability with $2M in funding

ZeroFox acquires IDX and announces plans to go public via SPAC

As Apache releases new patch, researchers discover new Log4j attack vector

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