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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US Coast Guard base crippled in Ryuk ransomware attack

A U.S. Coast Guard base was crippled in a ransomware attack late December that interrupted cameras, door access control systems and critical monitoring systems. The attack against an unnamed base, formally a Maritime Transportation Security Act regulated facility involved the Ryuk ransomware and is believed to have entered the network of the base via a ...

Poloniex resets customer passwords after alleged data leak that wasn’t

Cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex, owned by Circle Internet Financial Ltd. has reset some customer passwords after suffering an alleged data leak that actually turned out not to be. The so-called data leak first appeared on Twitter with the information claimed to be related to Poloniex accounts including login credentials. In an email to affected customers, the company ...

Amid concerns about links to China, US Army bans use of TikTok

The U.S. Army today banned popular social media app TikTok from mobile devices due to security concerns about the app’s link to China, following in the footsteps of the U.S. Navy that implemented an identical ban last month. The ban applies to government-issued phones with solders first being advised to uninstall the app in mid-December. The ban ...

Foreign currency exchange provider Travelex suspends services following malware attack

Foreign currency exchange provider Travelex was forced to suspend some services today after the company was struck by malware Dec. 31. The details of the attack are not clear. The company described it only as a “software virus” that has “compromised some of its services.” The attack primarily affected Travelex services in the U.K. with ...

Uber and Postmates sue California over law to limit how they hire gig-economy contractors

Uber Technologies Inc., Postmates Inc. and two drivers have filed a lawsuit against the State of California against a law set to go into effect Jan. 1 that limits how they can hire gig-economy and freelance contractors. Assembly Bill 5, signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom in September, forces companies to classify gig-economy and freelance contractors as ...

Microsoft seizes domain names used by alleged North Korean hacking group

Microsoft Corp. has successfully seized 50 domain names being used by a suspected North Korean hacking group as part of a broader campaign against cybercrime. The hacking group, dubbed “Thallium,” is alleged to have been using the domains to conduct its operations. Those operations, revealed today, are said to include the targeting of victims to ...

Ring sued by man claiming the company failed to deliver on security

Connected internet device maker Ring LLC has been sued by a man claiming that his internet-connected camera was hacked and used to harass his children. The litigant, John Baker Orange, filed in the United States District Court Central District of California Dec. 26. He’s seeking class-action status in the legal action. In the lawsuit, Orange ...

Uber obtains approval from Egypt to proceed with Careem acquisition

Uber Technologies Inc. has been given approval by Egypt’s Competition Authority to acquire Middle Eastern ride-hailing startup Careem Networks FZ some nine months after the deal was announced. Careem operates in 120 cities across North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia, but of the markets the company operates in, Egypt is the largest in the Middle East ...

Wyze exposes 2.4M customer records via unsecured Elasticsearch database

Internet-connected device maker Wyze Labs Inc. has suffered a data breach, though the company claims there’s no evidence the data was accessed by any nefarious third parties. The data breach, first detailed by 12 Security Dec. 26, involved an unsecured Elasticsearch database with 2.4 million customer records. The database included the user names and emails of those ...

YouTube purges thousands of cryptocurrency videos before claiming deletions were ‘in error’

Google LLC’s YouTube has deleted thousands of bitcoin and cryptocurrency-related videos in an apparent purge but in a backflip is now claiming that the deletions were “in error.” The purge started just before Christmas and primarily targeted small independent channels. Creators claimed they received no correspondence from YouTube as to why their videos had been deleted. One ...