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

Latest from Duncan Riley

Top AWS executive Teresa Carlson joins Splunk as president and chief growth officer

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Top Amazon Web Services Inc. executive Teresa Carlson early today joined big-data analytics company Splunk Inc. in the newly created role of president and chief growth officer. Carlson will report to Doug Merritt, Splunk’s chief executive officer, and will work closely with …

Data from three universities published online in latest Accellion-related data breach

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Three universities in the U.S. have had data stolen and published online in the latest data breaches related to a vulnerability in software from Accellion Inc. The universities targeted were Stanford University, the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and the University of California at …

Hackers are actively targeting FortiOS vulnerabilities, warn FBI and CISA

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency have released a joint cybersecurity advisory warning that hacking groups are actively targeting vulnerabilities in Fortinet Inc.’s FortiOS. While not naming which hacking groups that …

533M Facebook user records offered on a hacking forum

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

A database containing details of 533 million Facebook users is being offered on a hacking forum. First spotted April 3 by Alon Gal, chief technology officer of Hudson Rock Ltd., the data was posted by a user called TomLiner on Raid Forums and …

Autonomous truck startup Plus raises $200M, explores public listing via SPAC

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Autonomous truck startup Plus has raised $220 million in new funding and is reported to be in talks to go public via a merger with a special-purchase acquisition company. Reuters reported Wednesday that the company is in advanced talks with a few SPACs …

North Korean hackers are now using a fake security company to target researchers

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Researchers at Google LLC’s Threat Analysis Group are warning that the same North Korean hackers who targeted security researchers earlier this year have now set up a new website and fake social media profiles for a fake company called “SecuriElite.” In the …

Shares of real estate technology firm Compass rise slightly on NYSE debut

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

In a sign of mixed investor reaction to recent initial public stock offerings, shares in SoftBank Group Corp.-backed real estate technology firm Compass Inc. rose slightly on their public debut on the New York Exchange today before softening in later trading. The company …

IRS obtains approval to seek customer records from cryptocurrency firm Circle

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has obtained authorization for a “John Doe Summons” that seeks to unmask high-value customers at cryptocurrency service provider Circle Internet Financial Inc. The summons, approved today by the federal court in the District of Massachusetts, demands that …

Sysdig launches unified cloud and container security posture management products

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Container security startup Sysdig Inc. today announced a number of new unified cloud and container security products to its lineup with the launch of continuous cloud security posture management. The first offering, Cloud Security Posture Management for AWS, is based on Cloud Custodian, an …

UK education charity Harris Federation struck by ransomware attack

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

The Harris Foundation, a U.K. education charity organization that runs 50 schools has been struck by a ransomware attack that has seen its systems taken offline. The ransomware attack hit the foundation on Saturday and according to the U.K. press today put “nearly …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Data from three universities published online in latest Accellion-related data breach

Hackers are actively targeting FortiOS vulnerabilities, warn FBI and CISA

533M Facebook user records offered on a hacking forum

Autonomous truck startup Plus raises $200M, explores public listing via SPAC

North Korean hackers are now using a fake security company to target researchers

Shares of real estate technology firm Compass rise slightly on NYSE debut

IRS obtains approval to seek customer records from cryptocurrency firm Circle

UK education charity Harris Federation struck by ransomware attack

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