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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Source code from 50+ companies, including Nintendo, Microsoft and Adobe, published online

Source code from dozens of companies has been published online after a developer found the code exposed on public repositories. More than 50 companies have had their source code published. They include Microsoft Corp., Adobe Systems Inc., Lenovo Group Ltd., Advanced Microsoft Devices Inc., Qualcomm Inc., Mediatek Inc., GE Appliances, Nintendo Co. Ltd. and the ...

7.5M customer records stolen from Dave found on the dark web

Customer details of some 7.5 million users of financial service Dave Inc. have been found on the dark web, with the data theft linked to an earlier hack at an outside provider used by the company. The hack, revealed by Dave on Saturday, involved a malicious party gaining unauthorized access to obtain the personal information ...

Garmin restores services following ransomware attack as blame is pointed at Evil Corp

Services at GPS and wearables company Garmin Ltd. are in the process of being restored following a ransomware attack last week, with the blame for the attack pointed at the hacking group Evil Corp. The attack, confirmed by the company as a “cyberattack that encrypted some of our systems July 23,” is described as causing various services “including website ...

Qualtrics, acquired by SAP for $8B two years ago, will be partially spun off in IPO

SAP SE is planning a partial spinoff of Qualtrics, the experience management software company it acquired for $8 billion in November 2018, in an  public offering. The spinoff was announced today, July 26. SAP said the primary objective of the IPO was to “fortify Qualtrics’ ability to capture its full market potential within Experience Management” and to “help ...

Stolen Instacart customer records found for sale on the dark web

About 270,000 Instacart Inc. customer records have been found for sale on the dark web, but the company is denying that it has experienced a data breach. Discovered by Buzzfeed News and revealed Wednesday, the records, which are being sold for around $2 each, include customer name, email address, order history and the last four ...

Cybersecurity startup CyCognito raises $30M in round led by Accel

Cybersecurity startup CyCognito Inc. has raised $30 million in new funding to accelerate its customer acquisition efforts. The Series B round was led by Accel and included Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sorenson Ventures and UpWest. As part of the deal, Eric Wolford, partner at Accel is joining CyCognito’s board of directors. Founded in 2018, CyCognito specializes in uncovering ...

Garmin services and manufacturing knocked offline in suspected ransomware attack

GPS and wearables company Garmin Ltd. has suffered a suspected ransomware attack that has caused its services to be taken offline and manufacturing operations to be suspended. Details on the attack are a little slim. Garmin said on Twitter at 9:30 a.m. EDT today that it was experiencing outages with Garmin Connect, its mobile application, along ...

Twitter’s revenue plunges amid COVID-19 pandemic as it explores subscription options

Twitter Inc.’s revenue plunged 19% in the second quarter as Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey said the company is exploring subscription options to address Twitter’s reliance on advertising. For the quarter ended June 30, Twitter reported revenue of $683 million, down 19% from a year ago and below analysts’ expectations of $707 million. The drop was driven ...

‘Lean and agile’ visual management software startup iObeya raises $17M

Enterprise visual management software startup iObeya has raised $17 million in new funding to develop its platform further and accelerate the company’s expansion in the U.S., including opening a new office in Seattle. The Series B round was led by Red River West and included Atlantic Bridge Ventures and Fortino Capital Partners. Founded in 2011, iObeya offers ...

Earthquake data analytics startup Safehub raises $5M

Earthquake data analytics startup Safehub Inc. today said it has raised $5 million in new funding to accelerate the deployment of its service to Fortune 500 companies seeking to strengthen their business continuity and resilience efforts. The seed round was co-led by Fusion Fund and Ubiquity Ventures and included Bolt, Promus Ventures, Blackhorn Ventures, Maschmeyer Group ...