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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Crowdsourced cybersecurity platform startup Bugcrowd raises $30M

Crowdsourced cybersecurity platform startup Bugcrowd Inc. today announced it has raised $30 million in new funding to accelerate the expansion of its platform. The Series D round was led by Rally Ventures and included unnamed new and existing investors. Founded in 2012, BugCrowd connects companies and their applications to security researchers to identify critical software vulnerabilities. At ...

95M records exposed on database belonging to marketing firm Maropost

A database belonging to marketing automation platform provider Maropost Inc. has been found exposed online, complete with 95 million individual customer email records and email logs. Discovered by researchers at Cybernews, the database included more than 19 million unique email records belonging to about 10,000 clients. Those clients include the New York Post, Shopify Inc., ...

Accenture acquires cybersecurity firm Revolutionary Security

Accenture plc today said it has acquired the privately held cybersecurity firm Revolutionary Security for an undisclosed price. The company had raised a single round of $2.5 million prior to acquisition. Founded in 2016, Revolutionary Security offers a range of cybersecurity products including risk assessment, breach and attack simulation testing, insider threat assessments and framework bases assessment. The ...

Blockchain banking and payments startup Sila raises $7.7M

Blockchain banking and payments startup Sila Inc. today announced that it has raised $7.7 million in new funding that will be used to introduce new product features that provide software developers with easier access to the global financial system. The seed round was lead by Madrona Venture Group and the Oregon Venture Fund and included Mucker ...

No-code automation platform provider Tonkean raises $24M

No-code automation platform provider Tonkean Inc. said today it has raised $24 million in new funding to allow it to scale up its “adaptive business operations” technology. Founded in 2015, Tonkean offers a “human in the loop” robotic automation platform that is said to bridge the “last mile” gap between people, technology and processes. Pitched as ...

WeWork Special Committee sues SoftBank over terminated $3B share acquisition

A Special Committee of We Co., the parent company of troubled workplace provider WeWork, today filed a lawsuit against SoftBank Group Corp. after SoftBank terminated its offer to buy $3 billion in WeWork shares April 2. The lawsuit alleges that SoftBank breached its obligations under the agreement to acquire WeWork shares in October. WeWork specifically claims that ...

Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey donates $1B in equity to coronavirus relief

Twitter Inc. and Square Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey has donated $1 billion in equity from his Square shares to fund COVID-19 relief around the world. Dorsey (pictured) said on Twitter today that the donation will fund coronavirus relief and that when the pandemic is over, remaining funds would be allocated to girls’ health education and universal ...

Enterprise content firewall provider Accellion raises $120M in new funding

Enterprise content firewall provider Accellion Inc. said today it has raised $120 million in new round led by Bregal Sagemount. Founded in 1999, Accellion offers an enterprise content firewall that is designed to prevent data breaches and compliance violations. The company’s firewall is designed to protect intellectual property, personally identifiable information, protected health information and other ...

Samsung beats preliminary earnings estimates on strong demand for memory chips

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said Tuesday that it expects to report a first-quarter operating profit of 6.4 trillion won ($5.23 billion) on operating revenue of 6.3 trillion won ($45 billion) despite the COVID-19 pandemic. The profit is up 2.7% over the first quarter of 2019 and ahead of analysts’ predictions of 6.2 trillion won ($5.05 billion), according to CNBC. ...

FBI warns that COVID-19 topics are being used in business email compromise attacks

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation today issued a warning that cybercriminals are taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to expand their business email compromise attacks. The bureau noted that a typical BEC scam involves victims receiving emails they believe are from a company they normally conduct business with, but this email requests funds be sent to a new ...