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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CyberArk launches open-source Shadow Admin identification tool for Azure and AWS

Cybersecurity company CyberArk Software Ltd. today launched a new open-source tool designed to identify Shadow Admin accounts in Microsoft Corp. Azure and Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud environments. Called CyberArk SkyArk, the tool is designed to help organizations combat Shadow Admins by targeting and securing the most privileged entities in both Azure and AWS environments. Shadow ...

Offensive Security acquires open-source vulnerability resource service Vulnhub

Security training and penetration testing company Offensive Security announced today that it has acquired open-source vulnerability resource service VulnHub. Founded in 2012, VulnHub is an open-source, continually updated catalog of information technology assets that are legally hackable, breakable and exploitable by design. The company says the catalog is a unique opportunity for security and IT professionals to ...

For sale on the dark web: 2.5M customer records from alcohol delivery service Drizly

Alcohol delivery service Drizly is the latest to suffer a confirmed data breach, with some 2.5 million customer records finding their way to the shady corner of the internet known as the dark web. News that Drizly may have suffered a data breach first emerged alongside news Monday that financial service provider Dave Inc. had been ...

Stack Overflow raises $85M to accelerate development of its Teams software

Programming-oriented question-and-answer startup Stack Overflow announced today it has raised a hefty $85 million in late-stage funding to accelerate the development of the company’s Teams software as a service knowledge management and collaboration offering as well as to expand into new markets. The Series E round was led by GIC and included Silver Lake Waterman, Andreessen Horowitz, Index ...

Cloudflare denies data leak after 3M customer IP addresses found on the dark web

Network security firm Cloudflare Inc. today denied a report that it suffered a data leak after the records of some 3 million customers were found on the shady corner of the internet called the dark web. The claim comes from the National Coordination Center for Cybersecurity at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, which said ...

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 ...