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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Despite strong earnings, Okta see shares drop on lower guidance

Shares in cloud identity management service provider Okta Inc. dropped in after-hours trading Wednesday after the company reported a mixed bag of results and guidance. Okta beat market analyst predictions on earnings and revenue for its fiscal second quarter, reporting a 5-cent-per-share loss versus a prediction of a 10-cent loss and a 15-cent loss a year ago. The ...

Homeland Security initiative aimed at fighting ransomware ahead of 2020 election

The U.S. government is planning to launch a new program that will focus on protecting voter registration databases and systems from cyberattacks ahead of the 2020 presidential election. Reuters reported Tuesday that the new initiative, to be led by the U.S. Department on Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency, stems from concern about ransomware attacks such as ...

Imperva ‘security incident’ exposes customer data

Cybersecurity software firm Imperva Inc. today disclosed a “security incident” involving its Cloud Web Application Firewall product, previously known as Incapsula, in 2017 that appears to have resulted in the theft of customer data. “On August 20, 2019, we learned from a third party of a data exposure that impacts a subset of customers of ...

Craig ‘Satoshi’ Wright loses $5B in bitcoin to estate of former business partner

Craig Wright, the man who on several occasions has claimed to be bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, is as much as $5 billion in bitcoin poorer after he lost a case with the estate of a former business partner. Ira Kleiman, the brother of Wright’s late business partner David Kleiman, sued Wright on behalf of the ...

Microsoft Surface event in October could see debut of dual-screen device

Microsoft Corp. has scheduled a Surface event for Oct. 2, but in a twist on last year’s event that debuted a new Surface Pro, the possible headline launch this year could be a dual-screen Surface device. The dual-screen fold tablet/laptop, code-named Surface “Centaurus” by Microsoft during its two years of development, could have a similar form ...

Australia proposes to block social media in the event of a terrorist attack

Australia will block any site deemed to be hosting “terrorist material,” including leading social media sites such as Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc., under a proposal announced Sunday by Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Reuters reported that Morrison (pictured, right), who somehow got invited to the G7 Leaders’s Summit in France despite Australia not being a member of the ...

14M accounts compromised in hack of web hosting provider Hostinger

The details of about 14 million customers of web hosting provider Hostinger International Ltd. have been compromised by a “security incident” that took place on Aug. 23. To its credit, Hostinger has been upfront with customers in its disclosure, writing Sunday that one of its servers had been accessed by an unauthorized third party. “This server ...

Apple rushes out new iOS security release to address jailbreaking vulnerability

Apple Inc. today released a new security update to its iOS mobile operating system a week after it was reported that it had managed to open a vulnerability that allowed Apple devices to be jailbroken. iOS 12.4.1, available for iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later and sixth-generation iPod Touch devices, addresses what Apple ...

Report: Facebook is developing new Instagram ‘intimate’ messaging feature

Facebook Inc. is developing a new messaging feature dubbed “Threads” for Instagram that supposedly promotes constant, intimate sharing between users according to an unconfirmed report from The Verge. In an age where users are sometimes deeply concerned about data sharing — vocally but not always in practice — Threads is said to include the ability to share ...

New Instagram phishing scam targets users with fake 2FA codes

Security researchers at Sophos Group plc are warning of a new phishing scam that attempts to trick Instagram users with a fake two-factor authentication message. The messages, claiming that someone has tried to log into a user’s Instagram account, are designed to look as close as possible to official Instagram messages. “Apart from a few punctuation errors ...