Duncan Riley, Author at SiliconANGLE

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Internal Facebook paper details defense against antitrust lawsuit

By Duncan Riley Oct 4, 2020

Facebook Inc. intends to mount a vigorous defense against any move by the U.S. government to break up its operations in an antitrust lawsuit, according to a paper prepared by the company’s lawyers. That’s…

NEWS

Treasury Department: Paying ransomware demands could be illegal

By Duncan Riley Oct 1, 2020

Companies paying ransom when attacked by ransomware in an effort to retrieve their data has always been controversial because it encourages future attacks. Now, doing so may also be illegal. The U.S. Department of…

Blockchain

US government files charges against crypto exchange BitMEX

By Duncan Riley Oct 1, 2020

The U.S. Department of Justice and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed charges today against cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX for allegedly evading U.S. money laundering laws. BitMEX, registered in Seychelles, is one of the world’s most…

NEWS

Keeping up with cybersecurity: Kylie Cosmetics discloses data breach

By Duncan Riley Sep 30, 2020

Kylie Cosmetics LLC, the cosmetic company founded by Kylie Jenner of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” fame, has disclosed that customer information was stolen as part of the data breach of Shopify Inc. last week.…

Blockchain

Court rules in favor of SEC in ‘initial coin offering’ lawsuit against Kik

By Duncan Riley Sep 30, 2020

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has won its lawsuit against Kik Interactive Inc. for conducting an alleged illegal initial coin offering in 2017. The finding today in favor of the SEC came via a motion…

AI

Intelligent knowledge base startup Golden raises $14.5M

By Duncan Riley Sep 30, 2020

Intelligent knowledge base startup Golden Recursion Inc. said today it has raised $14.5 million in new funding to build out its team, product capabilities and datasets. The Series A round was led by Andreessen Horowitz’s…

NEWS

Google faces antitrust probe in China as US lawsuit could be filed next week

By Duncan Riley Sep 30, 2020

Google LLC is facing an antitrust probe on a new front today, hot on the heels of news that it could be sued for antitrust by the U.S. Department of Justice as soon as…

NEWS

Flight-tracking service Flightradar24 suffers downtime following cyberattack

By Duncan Riley Sep 29, 2020

Popular flight-tracking website Flightradar24 has been targeted in a series of cyberattacks that would appear to be related to the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The site was attacked over three distributed denial-of-service attacks…

NEWS

Network security startup Axis Security raises $32M to accelerate growth

By Duncan Riley Sep 29, 2020

Network security startup Axis Security today said it has raised $32 million in new funding to accelerate growth and meet market demand. The Series B round was led by Canaan Partners and included Ten Eleven Ventures…

NEWS

French shipping giant CMA CGM targeted in Ragnar Locker ransomware attack

By Duncan Riley Sep 29, 2020

French shipping giant CMA CGM S.A. has been struck by a ransomware attack that bought down some of its services. The attack is believed to have involved Ragnar Locker ransomware and first struck the…

Duncan Riley

Internal Facebook paper details defense against antitrust lawsuit

Treasury Department: Paying ransomware demands could be illegal

US government files charges against crypto exchange BitMEX

Keeping up with cybersecurity: Kylie Cosmetics discloses data breach

Court rules in favor of SEC in ‘initial coin offering’ lawsuit against Kik

Intelligent knowledge base startup Golden raises $14.5M

Google faces antitrust probe in China as US lawsuit could be filed next week

Flight-tracking service Flightradar24 suffers downtime following cyberattack

Network security startup Axis Security raises $32M to accelerate growth

French shipping giant CMA CGM targeted in Ragnar Locker ransomware attack

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