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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Fashion social network 21 Buttons exposes user data via unsecured cloud storage

21 Buttons La Plataforma APP S.L., a Spain-based technology startup that offers a fashion social network and clothing shop, has suffered a data breach with the records of its users found exposed online. Discovered and publicized today by researchers led by Noam Rotem at vpnMentor, the data was found on an unsecured Amazon Web Services ...

AWS rolls out its Wavelength edge computing service in South Korea

Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Wavelength edge computing service today launched in South Korea on SK Telecom Co. Ltd.’s 5G network, its first deployment in Asia. Wavelength, first rolled out in August, is designed to give latency-sensitive applications a speed boost by placing them physically closer to the data they process. The service allows developers to deploy ...

Cybersecurity firm White Ops acquired by Goldman Sachs

Cybersecurity startup White Ops Inc. has been acquired by Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s Merchant Banking Division in partnership with venture capital firms ClearSky Security Fund and NightDragon. The price of the acquisition, announced today, was not disclosed. Prior to the deal, White Ops had raised $31 million, according to Crunchbase. The acquisition included the purchase of ...

Customer funds stolen in hack of UK cryptocurrency exchange EXMO

U.K.-registered cryptocurrency exchange EXMO Exchange Ltd. has been hacked and the equivalent of about $10 million in customer cryptocurrency was stolen. The hack on the exchange, which is popular in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan was detected Monday and primarily involved the theft of bitcoin but also XRP, Zcash, USDT, Ethereum Classic and Ethereum from customer ...

Law enforcement operation brings down VPN and hosting services used by cybercriminals

A joint law enforcement operation involving the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation and various national police forces has taken down three virtual private network services and associated web hosting operations used by cybercriminals. The takedown, dubbed “Operation Nova,” resulted in the seizure of domain names and server ...

Lidar startup Ouster to go public in $1.9B SPAC merger

Ouster Inc., a startup building lidar sensors out of laser-emitting chips, today announced it’s going public through a special-purpose acquisition company called Colonnade Acquisition Corp. in a deal that values the company at $1.9 billion. SPACs are entities that are created for the sole purpose of buying another firm and taking it public. They’re becoming ...

SEC files lawsuit alleging Ripple’s XRP cryptocurrency is an unregistered security

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today filed a lawsuit against Ripple Labs Inc. and two of its executives claiming that the company, which offers the XRP cryptocurrency, illegally sold unregistered securities. The complaint alleges that Ripple, along with Christian Larson, the company’s co-founder and executive chairman of its board and former chief executive officer, ...

National Security Agency warns hackers are forging cloud authentication information

The U.S. National Security Agency has issued a warning that hackers are forging cloud authentication information to gain access to secure systems. In a Dec. 17 cybersecurity advisory titled “Detecting Abuse of Authentication Mechanisms,” the NSA gave guidance to the National Security System, Department of Defense and Defense Industrial Base network administrators. The goal is ...

Digital contract management startup Ironclad reportedly has raised $100M

Digital contract management software startup Ironclad Inc. is reported to have raised at least $100 million in new funding in a round led by venture capital firm Bond. The company has not confirmed the round. The valuation on the round differs depending on the report. The Information reported today that the raise was on a $950 ...

Data stolen from cryptocurrency wallet provider Ledger published on hacking site

Data stolen from a hack of cryptocurrency wallet provider Ledger SAS, which the company initially denied but eventually confessed to in July, has been published online. The stolen data was offered for free on Raid Forums, a website that has become well-known this year for being an internet site. It’s not on the dark web, a shady ...