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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Security company Gunnebo hacked with stolen data published on the dark web

Multinational Swedish security company Gunnebo AB has been hacked with the data stolen finding its way onto the dark web, the shady part of the internet reachable with special software. Founded in 1889, though with roots in an earlier company founded in 1764, Gunnebo is a leading provider particularly in Europe of banking security solutions, ...

AWS announces general availability of secure computing EC2 Nitro Enclaves

Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the general availability of AWS Nitro Enclaves, an EC2 capability designed to make it easier for customers to securely process highly sensitive data. Nitro Enclaves, first announced as one of three new security products from Amazon last December, offers the ability to customers to partition compute and memory resources within an ...

Information security startup Enso Security launches with $6M in seed funding

Information security startup Enso Security today launched out of stealth with a venture capital raise of $6 million in seed funding. The seed round was led by YL Ventures and included Jump Capital, toDay Ventures and a number of individual investors. Enso Security was founded by former Wix.com application security experts Roy Erlich, Chen Gour Arie and ...

Truck automation and logistics startup Outrider raises $65M

Truck automation and logistics startup Outrider Inc. today announced it has raised $65 million in new funding to scale up and support its technology to automate distribution yards. The Series B round was led by Koch Disruptive Technologies and included NEA, 8VC, Prologis Ventures, Evolv Ventures and Henry Crown and Co. Founded in 2017 and launched out of ...

Amazon fires employees for leaking customer information

Amazon.com Inc. has fired a number of employees alleged to have leaked customer information to unaffiliated third parties in violation of company policies. The incident first came to light after customers started reporting receiving messages from Amazon over the weekend. The messages noted that their email addresses were disclosed by an Amazon employee to a ...

Justice Department could block Visa’s acquisition of Plaid on antitrust grounds

Visa Inc.’s acquisition of Plaid Financial Inc., announced in January, could be in jeopardy as the U.S. Department of Justice reportedly is looking at blocking the deal on antitrust grounds. The Wall Street Journal, referencing people familiar with the matter, reported today that the Justice Department is concerned the acquisition could limit nascent competition in the payments market. ...

Apple reportedly acquires AI and vision startup Vilynx for $50M

Apple Inc. acquired artificial intelligence and vision startup Vilynx Inc. earlier this year for $50 million, according to a report from Bloomberg. An exact date on the deal is unknown but the Vilynx website was last recorded by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine on July 16. The company’s LinkedIn page has been removed, but key ...

Business application configuration startup Salto launches with $27M round

Israeli business application configuration startup Salto today said it has raised $27 million in funding as it announced its formal launch to the public after a year in stealth development. The Series A round included Bessemer Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures. The company was founded in 2019 by veteran Israeli entrepreneurs Rami Tamir, Benny Schnaider ...

Nitro Software hacked with customer data offered for sale on the dark web

Australian document productivity company Nitro Software Inc. has suffered a data breach with customer data being offered for sale on the dark web. The company, which provides services to much of the Fortune 500, was hacked sometime earlier this month. In a statement last week to the Australia Stock Exchange, Nitro advised that they had been impacted ...

Golf and ski resort operator Boyne Resorts struck by ransomware attack

Golf and ski resort operator Boyne Resorts has been hit by a ransomware attack that forced the company to shut down parts of its network. First reported Friday by Bleeping Computer, the attack was first detected in the company’s corporate office a week ago before spreading to computer systems at the various resorts Boyne operates. As ...