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

Internal Revenue Service warns of tax phishing scam

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has issued an urgent warning concerning a phishing scam that seeks to steal Electronic Filing Identification Numbers. The scam, which emerged just before the tax filing season began Feb. 12, involves emails that impersonate the IRS with …

Responsive Menu plugin exposes WordPress installs to site takeovers

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Critical vulnerabilities in a popular WordPress plugin appear to have exposed more 100,000 websites to site takeovers. Detailed Wednesday by security researcher Chloe Chamberland at Wordfence, the vulnerabilities were found in Responsive Menu, a plugin that offers customizable mobile-friendly menu options in WordPress …

Government agencies probe GameStop pump over potential illegal manipulation

POLICY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

U.S. government agencies have launched federal investigations into whether the social-media-driven activity around GameStop Corp.’s share price rise in January constituted illegal market manipulation. According to a report today in The Wall Street Journal, both the U.S. Department of Justice and the Commodity Futures …

Proofpoint sues Facebook over lookalike domain names used in security training

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Cybersecurity firm Proofpoint Inc. has filed a lawsuit against Facebook Inc. to allow it to keep a number of domain names that imitate Facebook and Instagram used in security training programs. The drama began in November when Facebook filed a Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution request …

Datadog acquires Timber and Sqreen, reports lower-than-expected guidance

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Shares in Datadog Inc. dropped in after-hours trading today after the data monitoring and analytics provider’s 2021 earnings guidance came in lower than expected and the company announced the acquisition of two startups. For the quarter ended Dec. 31, Datadog reported a profit before costs …

API security startup Traceable partners with Silicon Valley CISO Investments

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Application programming interface security startup Traceable Inc. today announced a strategic partnership with Silicon Valley CISO Investments, an angel syndicate of 55 practicing chief information security officers. The amount of the funding, about $250,000 is less important than what the company calls “social equity” …

Security researcher breaches Apple, Microsoft and others by exploiting open-source repositories

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

A security researcher has uncovered a security vulnerability that allowed him to run code on internal systems belonging to major companies, including Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Netflix Inc., PayPal Holdings Inc., Tesla Inc. and others by exploiting open-source repositories. The supply chain …

AWS to provide National Hockey League cloud, AI and machine learning services

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Amazon Web Services Inc. announced today it has signed a deal with the National Hockey League to become the official cloud, artificial intelligence and machine learning infrastructure provider of the largest ice hockey league in North America. Under the deal, AWS will …

Autonomous truck startup Plus raises $200M to accelerate global commercialization

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Autonomous truck startup Plus announced today it has raised $200 million in new funding to accelerate the global commercialization and deployment of its automated trucking system. That will include the development of a sales and support network to help fleets integrate its automated …

Uber shares slide on weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Shares in Uber Technologies Inc. dropped in after-hours trading today after the ride-hailing giant missed analysts’ predictions for its fourth-quarter earnings. For the quarter ended Dec. 31, Uber reported gross bookings of $17.2 billion, down 5% year-over-year on revenue of $3.17 billion. …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Internal Revenue Service warns of tax phishing scam

Responsive Menu plugin exposes WordPress installs to site takeovers

Proofpoint sues Facebook over lookalike domain names used in security training

Datadog acquires Timber and Sqreen, reports lower-than-expected guidance

Security researcher breaches Apple, Microsoft and others by exploiting open-source repositories

AWS to provide National Hockey League cloud, AI and machine learning services

Autonomous truck startup Plus raises $200M to accelerate global commercialization

Uber shares slide on weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings

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