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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TrickBot rises from the dead in new campaign that targeted 250M email accounts

In a scene straight out of a zombie television series, the TrickBot malware has risen from the dead with a new attack the may have targeted as many as 250 million email accounts, including those belonging to U.S. government employees. Season four of TrickBot, as described Friday by researchers at cybersecurity firm Deep Instinct Ltd., is back in the ...

Report: Huawei to lay off US R&D staff despite partial ban reprieve

Despite a partial reprieve from a ban imposed by Trump administration in the midst of the U.S.-China trade war, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is set to lay off a substantial number of its U.S. employees, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal Sunday. The layoffs, which the Chinese company has not confirmed, are said to affect primarily ...

No friends in Washington for Facebook: Trump joins Libra pile-on

U.S. President Donald Trump has become the latest critic of Facebook’s proposed Libra cryptocurrency, taking to Twitter Thursday night to attack it as well as bitcoin. In a series of tweets, the President said that he was not a fan of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, saying they’re “not money” and that their “value is highly ...

Former Tesla engineer admits uploading Autopilot source code but denies wrongdoing

A former Tesla Inc. engineer being sued by the company admitted in a court filing earlier this week that he uploaded source code for Tesla’s Autopilot to the cloud, but he denies any wrongdoing. The case involves Guangzhi Cao, a former engineer who left Tesla in January to work for Chinese electric car startup Guangzhou ...

New Magecart attack targets misconfigured AWS S3 instances with ‘skimmer’ code

Misconfigured Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 cloud storage instances have long been a source of data breaches, but in a dangerous new twist, those same instances are now being exploited by a hacking group to steal credit card data. Discovered by security researchers at RiskIQ Inc. and revealed Wednesday, the new attacks involve a Magecart ...

Microsoft Teams surges ahead with 13M users, likely surpassing Slack

Microsoft Corp. has finally revealed user numbers for its Teams service, likely confirming what was first reported in a survey in December: It’s now more popular than rival Slack Inc. More than 13 million people were using Microsoft Teams on a daily basis as of June, with more than 19 million people using the service weekly, Microsoft ...

Privacy fail: Audio recorded by Google Assistant leaked to Belgian news outlet

Google LLC has become embroiled in a new privacy scandal after it was forced to admit today that audio captured by its smart assistant was leaked by a partner in the Netherlands to a news outlet. About 1,000 conversations captured by Google Assistant, which is used in Google Home smart speakers, Android devices and Chromebooks, were leaked to Belgian news ...

IPO mania: Second quarter hits new record for startup exits

More companies went public or were acquired in the second quarter than in any single quarter in history. That’s according to data from the latest PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor quarterly venture capital ecosystem report announced early Thursday. And for the first time ever as well, exits for a quarter surpassed $100 billion, bringing total venture-backed exit ...

Blockstack becomes first company to get SEC approval for an initial coin offering

Reports of dubious initial coin offerings targeted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission are a dime a dozen, but a New York City-based company seeking to raise money in a token sale is making headlines for the right reason: It’s the first company to gain SEC approval for an ICO. Blockstack PBC, a startup ...

New Android malware replaces code in legitimate apps to display malicious ads

A newly discovered form of Android malware that changes code in legitimate apps to display fraudulent ads has been found on more than 25 million devices, according to a report today from security researchers at Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. Dubbed “Agent Smith” by the researchers after the villain who copies himself multiple times in “The Matrix” ...