Duncan Riley, Author at SiliconANGLE

NEWS

Microsoft users targeted by fake FedEx and DHL emails

By Duncan Riley Feb 23, 2021

Users of Microsoft Corp. email services are being targeted by a new phishing scam that sends fake messages pretending to be from FedEx Corp. and DHL International GmbH. Detailed today by security researchers from Armorblox…

Blockchain

iFinex agrees to pay $18.5M to settle New York Tether lawsuit

By Duncan Riley Feb 23, 2021

iFinex Inc., the parent company of cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and the Tether stablecoin, has settled a long-running lawsuit filed by the New York Attorney General’s office in April 2019. The lawsuit claimed that Bitfinex and…

Apps

Shares in Square plummet after company discloses bitcoin investment

By Duncan Riley Feb 23, 2021

Shares in Square Inc. plummeted in after-hours trading after the financial services provider disclosed in its quarterly earnings report that it had purchased bitcoin at a time the cryptocurrency is declining in price. For…

NEWS

Sophos partners with Qualcomm to provide endpoint protection to Snapdragon compute platforms

By Duncan Riley Feb 23, 2021

Sophos Group plc today announced a partnership with Qualcomm Inc. to provide its Intercept X endpoint protection to 5G personal computers powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon compute platforms. Qualcomm’s main 8cv compute platform, unveiled in…

Cloud

Israeli IT automation platform startup Atera raises $25M

By Duncan Riley Feb 23, 2021

Israeli information technology automation platform startup Atera Networks Ltd. announced today it has raised $25 million in new funding led by K1 Investment Management to expand research and development, widen its geographic footprint and accelerate…

NEWS

VC firm Sequoia Capital suffers data breach, investor information stolen

By Duncan Riley Feb 22, 2021

Sequoia Capital, one of the most famous venture capital firms in Silicon Valley has suffered a data breach with investor information likely stolen. Officially referred to by the firm as a “cybersecurity incident,” it’s…

Apps

Employee stock options funding startup EquityBee raises $20M

By Duncan Riley Feb 22, 2021

EquityBee Inc., a company that helps startup employees raise money to exercise their stock options, said today it has raised $20 million in new funding to accelerate growth and expand product offerings. The Series A…

NEWS

Newly detected ‘mystery’ malware targets Macs running Intel and M1 chips

By Duncan Riley Feb 21, 2021

A new form of malware has been discovered to be infecting Apple Inc. computers running Intel Corp. chips and the company’s own M1 chips but oddly it’s not known what the intent behind the…

NEWS

Clubhouse suffers breach as outside developer pulls audio to website

By Duncan Riley Feb 21, 2021

The hot audio-based social app Clubhouse has apparently suffered a data breach, as a third-party developer designed an open-source app that allowed Android smartphone users to access the invite-only, iPhone-only service. Launched in March…

NEWS

California DMV suffers data breach after contractor struck by ransomware attack

By Duncan Riley Feb 18, 2021

Data relating to millions of car owners in California may have been stolen after a third-party contractor used by the California Department of Motor Vehicles was struck by a ransomware attack. The ransomware attack…

Duncan Riley

Microsoft users targeted by fake FedEx and DHL emails

iFinex agrees to pay $18.5M to settle New York Tether lawsuit

Shares in Square plummet after company discloses bitcoin investment

Sophos partners with Qualcomm to provide endpoint protection to Snapdragon compute platforms

VC firm Sequoia Capital suffers data breach, investor information stolen

Newly detected ‘mystery’ malware targets Macs running Intel and M1 chips

Clubhouse suffers breach as outside developer pulls audio to website

California DMV suffers data breach after contractor struck by ransomware attack

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