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

Ransomware attack targeting Sinclair disrupts local TV broadcasts

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. confirmed today that it was targeted by a ransomware attack that disrupted its network of local television stations. The suspicion that a ransomware attack may have targeted the company was first raised on Sunday when TV broadcasts went …

Israeli pharmaceutical AI startup Quris raises $9M and launches new platform

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

Israeli pharmaceutical artificial intelligence startup Quris Technologies today announced $9 million in new funding and launched a clinical prediction AI platform to predict which drug candidates will safely work in humans. The seed round included Dr. Judith Richter and Dr. Kobi Richter, pioneers …

Missouri governor threatens legal action against journalist who exposed data leak

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

Missouri Governor Mike Parson is threatening to prosecute a journalist who exposed a serious flaw on a state website that exposed Social Security numbers of state employees. As exposed by Josh Renaud of the St. Louis Post-Despatch, the data breach involves a …

Waymo self-driving cars keep flocking to a San Francisco dead-end street

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

Self-driving cars operated by Waymo LLC, the autonomous vehicle division of Alphabet Inc., have been flocking to a dead-end street in San Francisco and no one seemingly knows why. CBS 5 SF Bay Area was first with the news, noting that locals …

Venture capital funding and exits hit new record highs

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

Venture capital in the U.S. has hit new high records of investment, according to the latest VC report from PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor released today. The jump was riven by an explosion of mega-deals and record nontraditional investor participation, as investment totals in the quarter broke …

New ‘SnapMC’ threat group steals data, then extorts victims for payment

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

So-called “double-tap” ransomware groups, which both encrypt and steal data and then threaten to publish the data without payment, have been on the rise for year. The appeal of such an attack is that the victim has to deal with systems being …

Verizon Visible customers targeted in a credential-stuffing attack

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

Some customers of Visible, the discount pre-paid mobile arm of Verizon Communications Inc., have been hacked in a so-called credential-stuffing attack. The attack first came to light after customers took to social media to say that hackers had accessed their accounts, changed …

Homeland Security secretary warns ‘killware’ is the next big cyber threat

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is warning that the next big cybersecurity threat is killware, and it could indeed end up killing people. Mayorkas (pictured) identified killware as a serious risk in an interview with USA Today Tuesday, citing the …

Engineer interviewing startup interviewing.io raises $10M

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

Engineer interviewing startup Interviewing.io Inc. announced today it has raised $10 million in new funding in a Series A round led by M13. Founded in 2015, interviewing.io pitches itself as reinventing the way tech companies hire engineering talent. The company’s platform gives engineers tools …

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

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

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., …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Ransomware attack targeting Sinclair disrupts local TV broadcasts

Israeli pharmaceutical AI startup Quris raises $9M and launches new platform

Missouri governor threatens legal action against journalist who exposed data leak

Waymo self-driving cars keep flocking to a San Francisco dead-end street

Venture capital funding and exits hit new record highs

New ‘SnapMC’ threat group steals data, then extorts victims for payment

Verizon Visible customers targeted in a credential-stuffing attack

Homeland Security secretary warns ‘killware’ is the next big cyber threat

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

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