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

Vancouver’s public transport provider hit by ransomware attack

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

The public transport system of Vancouver, Canada, has been struck by a ransomware attack from the same gang that targeted big-box retailer Kmart earlier in the week. The attack on Translink was first discovered Dec. 2 when the statutory authority tweeted that it …

Kmart allegedly struck by Egregor ransomware attack

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Big-box retailer Kmart Corp. has been allegedly been struck by a ransomware attack that has impacted back-end services. Exclusively reported today by Bleeping Computer, the ransomware attack is believed to have involved the Egregor ransomware gang. First detected in September, Egregor uses a so-called …

243M Brazilian health records exposed by password left in website source code

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

The personal information of 243 million people in Brazil has been exposed online after a password to access the information was left by the developers in the source code of an official Brazilian government website. First reported Wednesday by Brazilian publication Estadao, the …

S&P Dow Jones Indices to launch global cryptocurrency indexing service

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC, the company behind various stock market indices today announced that it plans to launch a global cryptocurrency indexing service in 2021. The service, provided in partnership with crypto data provider Lukka Inc. will provide S&P DJI-branded and customized …

IBM researchers warn of phishing campaign targeting COVID-19 vaccine distribution

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Researchers at International Business Machines Corp. have uncovered a global phishing campaign targeting the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. The campaign consists of “spear phishing” emails seeking to gain credentials of employees at companies currently in the process of shipping coronavirus vaccines. IBM …

Dell Technologies announces new security solutions to protect customer data

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Dell Technologies Inc. today announced a range of new intrinsic security solutions and services designed to protect customer data across the supply chain, infrastructure, devices and services. Focusing on helping customers lower security risk and become more cyber-resilient, the announcement includes a new secure supply …

Stolen credentials forum OGUsers hacked again with user data stolen

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Stolen credentials forum OGUsers has been hacked again, with user data stolen — a case of hackers being hacked. First reported today by Krebs on Security, the hack is said to have taken place about a week ago with the front page of …

FBI warns criminals are exploiting email forwarding for business compromise attacks

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a warning in relation to cybercriminals exploiting email rule vulnerability to increase the likelihood of successful business email compromise. The warning, published Nov. 25 as a Private Industry Notification but only now made public, …

CrowdStrike and Zscaler shares surge as both book strong earnings

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Shares in CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. and Zscaler Inc. surged in after-hours trading today after both security companies beat analyst predictions on revenue, earnings and guidance in their quarterly earnings reports. For the quarter ended Oct. 1, CrowdStrike reported revenue jumped 86% year …

Patient records stored by electronic health company found exposed online

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Thousands of patient records stored by nTreatment, a company that provides electronic health and patient records to doctors and psychiatrists, has been exposed online in the latest case of a company failing to secure its cloud storage. The data, discovered and publicized today by TechCrunch …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Vancouver’s public transport provider hit by ransomware attack

Kmart allegedly struck by Egregor ransomware attack

243M Brazilian health records exposed by password left in website source code

S&P Dow Jones Indices to launch global cryptocurrency indexing service

IBM researchers warn of phishing campaign targeting COVID-19 vaccine distribution

Dell Technologies announces new security solutions to protect customer data

Stolen credentials forum OGUsers hacked again with user data stolen

FBI warns criminals are exploiting email forwarding for business compromise attacks

CrowdStrike and Zscaler shares surge as both book strong earnings

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