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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

Privacy engineering-as-a-service startup Gretel raises $50M

AI By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

Privacy engineering-as-a-service startup Gretel Labs Inc. revealed today that it has raised $50 million in new funding to fuel innovation, accelerate growth and expand into new use cases linked to data privacy. Anthos Capital led the Series B round. Also participating in the …

Proposed ransomware payment disclosure law met with mixed responses

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

A newly proposed law that would force companies to disclose a ransom payment following a ransomware attack to the U.S. government has received mixed responses from the cybersecurity community. The proposal law, the Ransomware Disclosure Act, has been introduced by Senator Elizabeth …

Livestreaming service Twitch hacked, stolen data shared on 4chan

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

Amazon.com Inc.-owned livestreaming service Twitch has been hacked and the stolen data has been shared online. The breach, revealed today, involved 125 gigabytes of stolen data that was shared as a “torrent” to the 4chan forum. The data included the service’s source …

Facebook outage was caused by a routine maintenance error

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc. today provided details of its global outage that saw its services offline on Monday, and the explanation is bizarrely simplistic: It was a routine maintenance error. In a blog post, Santosh Janardhan, vice president of engineering and infrastructure at Facebook, …

SaaS embeddable integrations startup Integry launches with $3M in new funding

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

Software-as-a-service embeddable integrations startup Integry Inc. launched out of stealth mode today with the announcement of $3 million in new funding to accelerate product development. Bonfire Ventures and Operative Collective led the seed round. Also participating in the round were Basecamp, Silicon Bandia, Pencil Ventures …

BlackBerry links Chinese hacking group APT41 to previous campaigns

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

Ahead of its annual BlackBerry Security Summit, the BlackBerry Ltd. Research & Intelligence team today unveiled new research into Advanced Persistent Threat group 41, finding that it was linked to far more hacking campaigns than previously known. APT 41, also known as Wicked Panda …

New Qualys assessment service provides visibility into ransomware exposure

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY5 YEARS AGO

Cybersecurity software provider Qualys Inc. today announced the availability of a new ransomware assessment service. The new service is designed to provide companies with visibility into their ransomware exposure and automate the patching and configuration changes needed to reduce risk immediately. The Qualys Ransomware …

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