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

Cisco given approval by China to acquire chip maker Acacia Communications

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Cisco Systems Inc. has been given approval by China’s State Administration of Market Regulation, the country’s antitrust regulator, to acquire Acacia Communications Inc. Cisco first announced that it was intending to acquire networking chip maker Acadia for $2.6 billion in July 2019 but failed …

Internal emails stolen in hack targeting cybersecurity company Malwarebytes

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Cybersecurity software firm Malwarebytes Inc. has been hacked and internal emails stolen. The hack, revealed today, is being attributed to the nation-state actor implicated in the Solar Winds Worldwide LLC breach, though Malwarebytes noted that it doesn’t use Solar Winds products itself. …

Automated cash management startup Trovata raises $20M in new funding

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Automated cash management startup Trovata Inc. said early Tuesday that it has raised $20 million in new funding to deliver new services, accelerate multibank application programming interfaces globally and add more bank distribution partners. The round was led by Wells Fargo Strategic Capital and …

FBI warns vishing attacks are on the rise amid COVID-19 pandemic

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a warning in relation to “vishing” or voice phishing attacks, a form of cybercrime that uses social engineering over a telephone to gain access access to private personal and financial information for the purposes …

Livecoin cryptocurrency exchange closes down after being hacked in December

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Russian cryptocurrency exchange Livecoin has shut down after it was hacked last month. In the hack in December, those behind it changed cryptocurrency exchange rates on Livecoin and the company lost control over all of its servers, back ends, nodes and social …

Scottish Environmental Protection Agency hit by ransomware attack

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency has revealed that it was struck by a ransomware attack on Christmas Eve that shut down its internal networks. The form of the ransomware attack was not disclosed, but the attack was detected at 12:01 a.m. Dec. …

AI-powered relocation firm PerchPeek raises $2.7M amid remote working shift

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Artificial intelligence-powered relocation firm PerchPeek Ltd. today said it has raised £2 million ($2.72 million) to further its international expansion as well as growing its U.S. sales team. The round was led by Episode 1 and included Kevin Felix of ScotiaBank, Jahed Rahman of …

Stolen Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine data published online

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Data on the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine that was stolen in December has been published online by those behind the hack. The leaked data was discovered earlier this week by the European Medicines Agency, where the data was originally stolen from Dec. 9. The …

SolarLeaks website offers source code stolen in SolarWinds hack for sale

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

In the latest twist on the SolarWinds hacking story, a site called SolarLeaks is selling stolen data from the hack, including source code from Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., FireEye Inc. and SolarWinds Worldwide LLC. The SolarLeaks website is offering to sell …

Despite antitrust investigation, Google completes its acquisition of Fitbit

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Google LLC today completed its acquisition of smartwatch maker Fitbit Inc. despite an ongoing antitrust investigation into the deal. The $2.1 billion acquisition deal was announced in November 2019, when the announcement immediately caused a backlash. Some Fitbit users were reported to be …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Cisco given approval by China to acquire chip maker Acacia Communications

Internal emails stolen in hack targeting cybersecurity company Malwarebytes

FBI warns vishing attacks are on the rise amid COVID-19 pandemic

Livecoin cryptocurrency exchange closes down after being hacked in December

Scottish Environmental Protection Agency hit by ransomware attack

AI-powered relocation firm PerchPeek raises $2.7M amid remote working shift

Stolen Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine data published online

SolarLeaks website offers source code stolen in SolarWinds hack for sale

Despite antitrust investigation, Google completes its acquisition of Fitbit

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