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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Enterprise data storage startup Infinidat raises additional funding

Enterprise data storage Infinidat Ltd. today announced it has raised an undisclosed sum of new funding. The Series D round came from existing investors TPG Growth, Goldman Sachs, Claridge Israel, ION Crossover Partners and Moshe Yanai, founder of Infinidat. Founded in 2011, Infinidat offers software-focused enterprise data storage architecture that is designed to solve the conflicting requirements of ...

Microsoft warns of cryptomining attacks targeting Kubeflow on Kubernetes

Microsoft Corp.  has issued a warning that hackers are targeting Kubeflow, a machine learning toolkit for Kubernetes, to install cryptomining code. The attacks were first detected in April and involve hackers targeting Kubernetes nodes running Kubeflow. The nodes were not so much misconfigured but rather settings had been changed. In a blog post Wednesday, Yossi Weizman, security ...

Enterprise automation platform startup Jiffy.ai raises $18M

Enterprise automation platform startup Jiffy.ai said today it has raised $18 million in new funding to deliver on its vision, hire more people and speed up its product roadmap. The Series A round in the company, formally called Paanini Inc., was led by Nexus Venture Partners with participation from Rebright Partners, W250 Venture Fund and a number ...

Controversial data analytics firm Palantir reportedly preparing to file for IPO

Big-data analytics firm Palantir Technologies Inc. is preparing to file for an initial public offering in the coming weeks, according to multiple reports published today. Bloomberg reported that the company, founded by Peter Thiel, is preparing to register a confidential S-1 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The report said Palantir is working with bankers ...

Unstoppable Domains launches blockchain-based decentralized blogging service

Blockchain startup Unstoppable Domains Inc. today launched a decentralized blog or dBlog service that’s hosted on the InterPlanetary File System and attached to the company’s .crypto domains. Designed to allow .crypto domain holders to build their own blog quickly, the dBlogs do not sit on a single server but are instead decentralized on the IPFS network. ...

Cyber risk management startup Axio raises new funding

Cybersecurity risk management startup Axio Global Inc. announced today it has raised new funding to accelerate platform innovation and expansion into new industries including the financial sector. The amount of the Series A1 round was not disclosed. It was led by Fin Venture Capital and IA Capital Group and included previous investor NFP Ventures. Founded in 2013, Axio ...

Congress queries Juniper Networks as debate stirs over new encryption law

A group of three U.S. senators and 13 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have sent a letter to Juniper Networks Inc. seeking to discover the outcome of an investigation by the company into encryption backdoors found in its ScreenOS operating system for firewalls in 2015. Led by Democrat Ron Wyden, who sits on the ...

Telehealth company Babylon Health exposes customer consultations in data breach

U.K. telehealth company Babylon Healthcare Services Ltd. has suffered a data breach, allowing users to view video consultations of others. The data breach was first discovered by a user who said on Twitter Tuesday that he had access to more than 50 video recordings belonging to other patients via the Babylon Health app. The company has ...

Emergency response technology startup RapidSOS raises $21M

Emergency response technology startup RapidSOS Inc. revealed today that it has raised $21 million in new funding to expand globally. The Series C round was led by Transformation Capital and included C5 Capital, Laerdal Million Lives Fund and a number of existing investors. Founded in 2012, RapidSOS connects data from millions of connected devices directly to 911 and ...

Facebook sues Indian registrar for domain fraud

Facebook Inc. has filed a lawsuit against an Indian domain registrar for fraud relating to 12 domain names registered with the company. The lawsuit targets Compsys Domain Solutions Private Ltd., a private company in Mumbai that offers domain name and proxy services. The domain names in the lawsuit include facebook-verify-inc.com, instagramhjack.com and videocall-whatsapp.com, which Facebook alleges are designed to deceived people ...