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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

New Zealand’s Central Bank hacked and data stolen

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand, the country’s central bank, has been hacked and commercially and personally sensitive information is believed to have been stolen. The news of the hack was released Sunday local time and is said to have involved the …

Report: Apple Car may take five to seven years to deliver

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Apple Inc.’s self-driving car program, which according to a report Dec. 21 is aiming to produce an electric car by 2024, may actually take five to seven years to deliver, according to a report today from Bloomberg. Referencing people with knowledge of the …

F5 Networks to acquire edge-as-a-service startup Volterra for $500M

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Network traffic management company F5 Networks Inc. today announced it will acquire “edge-as-a-service” startup Volterra Inc. in a $500 million deal consisting of $440 million in cash and $60 million in future consideration. Founded in 2017 and launched out of stealth in November 2019, …

Babuk Locker emerges as the first new form of ransomware in 2021

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Five days into 2021, already a new form of ransomware has emerged: Babuk Locker. First detailed Sunday by Chuang Dong, the ransomware uses its own implementation of SHA256 encryption called “ChaCha8” and also uses so-called Elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman key generation to protect its keys …

SolarWinds sued in class action lawsuit over Orion software hack

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

U.S. government software provider SolarWinds Worldwide LLC is being sued by shareholders in a class action lawsuit following the revelation in December that the company’s Orion software had been hacked. The lawsuit alleges that SolarWinds, former President and Chief Executive Officer Kevin Thompson …

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