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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Low-code enterprise app maker startup Retool raises $50M on $925M valuation

Low-code enterprise app maker startup Retool Inc. said today it has raised $50 million in new funding on a valuation of $925 million, just shy of unicorn status. The Series B round was led by Sequoia Capital and included the founders of GitHub, Gusto, PagerDuty, Plaid, Segment, Stripe and Y Combinator. Founded in 2017, Retool offers a ...

Banyan Security adds new access features to its zero-trust platform

Security firm Banyan Security today announced new features in its Zero Trust Remote Access Platform that are designed to assist access to critical engineering resources. The new features help engineers and software developers access the engineering resources and environments they need while providing a uniform security posture across the entire corporate organization without the need for ...

Data stolen in hack of medieval fantasy online game Albion Online

Albion Online, a free medieval fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game, has suffered a data breach. The site and game were established in 2017 and has a user base of about 2.36 million players. The data breach allegedly occurred not in the game itself but the game’s forum. Albion Online uses forum software called WoltLab Suite. ...

Cryptocurrency ‘mixer’ fined $60M for running an unregistered money business

The U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network today imposed a $60 million penalty against the founder of two cryptocurrency “mixer” services on the grounds that they breached U.S. law. The accused, Larry Dean Harmon, is alleged to be the operator of Helix and Coin Ninja, sites which provided mixers or “tumbler” services. Cryptocurrency mixer services are ...

Justice Department indicts Russians linked to the ‘Sandworm’ hacking group

The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted six Russians related to the so-called “Sandworm” hacking group that’s allegedly linked to hacking incidents, including those that targeted the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the 2017 French elections and the NotPetya ransomware attacks. The six hackers, alleges the indictment unsealed today, are all members of Unit 74455 of the Russian Main ...

VOIP provider Broadvoice exposes 350M customer records on Elasticsearch cluster

A database of more than 350 million customer records belonging to voice over-internet-protocol company Broadvoice has been found exposed online in the latest case of a company failing to secure its cloud storage. Discovered and publicized Oct. 15 by security researcher Bob Diachenko at Comparitech, the data was found on an unprotected Elasticsearch cluster. The data included ...

Credit card details stolen from Dickey’s BBQ customers published on dark web forum

Some 3 million credit card numbers belonging to customers of Dickey’s Barbecue Restaurants Inc., the largest BBQ franchise in the U.S., are being offered for sale on the dark web after the company was hacked. The stolen credit card details were discovered on a dark web carding site called “Jokers Stash” by security researchers at Gemini ...

Customer data stolen in hack that targeted bookseller Barnes & Noble

Bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc. has been hacked and the bookseller warned customers their data has been stolen. Barnes & Noble said it was hacked Oct. 10. The details are somewhat vague and the company only said it was a “victim of a cybersecurity attack.” According to an email sent to customers, Barnes & Noble ...

International cybercrime group QQAAZZ targeted in joint law enforcement operation

Members of the transnational cybercrime group QQAAZZ have been indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice on various charges relating to their involvement in providing services to high-profile cybercrime gangs. The QQAAZZ members indicted are alleged to have provided money-laundering services to groups behind Dridix, TrickBot and GozNym. TrickBot is the best-known of the three: ...

McAfee launches new cybersecurity bundle for the education sector

Ahead of its forthcoming initial public offering, cybersecurity firm McAfee LLC remains busy with the launch today of a new bundle for the education sector. The new products, McAfee Secure School Suites and McAfee MVISION Mobile Advanced, are being offered exclusively to McAfee’s education customers to ensure all devices are protected from threats such as ransomware ...