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

Manchester United forced to take systems offline following cyberattack

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

U.K. soccer club Manchester United has been forced to take some systems offline following a cyberattack. The attack occurred Friday evening U.K. time Nov. 20. The club described the attack only as “a sophisticated operation by organized cybercriminals.” Manchester United said in a …

Pray.com exposes millions of user records on unsecured cloud storage

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Records of up to 10 million users belonging to Pray.com, a provider of daily Christian prayers and faith-based audio content, have been found exposed online in the latest case of unsecured cloud data. Discovered by researchers at vpnMentor and reported Nov. 19, the …

GoDaddy employees tricked into handing over control of cryptocurrency domains

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

The hijacking of domain names belonging to Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange Liquid and several other crypto sites has been attributed to hackers tricking GoDaddy Inc. employees into handing over ownership. The hack of Liquid, first detected Nov. 13, involved the incorrect transfer of control of an account …

Business email compromise startup Abnormal Security raises $50M

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Business email compromise cybersecurity startup Abnormal Security Corp. revealed today that it has raised $50 million in new funding to double the size of its machine-learning and data science teams. The Series B round was led by Menlo Ventures and included Greylock. Although the valuation on …

Messaging app with 100M installs exposes private data through poor security practices

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Go SMS Pro, a messaging app with over 100 million Android installations, has been found to expose user data through poor security practices. Discovered and publicized today by researchers at Trustwave SpiderLabs, the data is exposed because of the way the app sends media to …

Amazon lays off Prime Air staff as it seeks to outsource drone manufacturing

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Amazon.com Inc. has laid off dozens of staff from its Prime Air drone delivery unit as it seeks to outsource drone manufacturing. The Financial Times reported today that the layoffs involve research and development staff along with manufacturing staff in a push to get …

Facebook antitrust probe is targeting WhatsApp and Instagram acquisitions

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

The antitrust investigations into Facebook Inc. are entering their final stages, targeting the social media giant’s acquisition of WhatsApp and Instagram, according to a report today from The Washington Post. Reports that Facebook was being investigated by the U.S. federal government and states …

Customer data stolen in hack targeting cryptocurrency exchange Liquid

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange Liquid, the 18th largest exchange in the world by volume, has been hacked and customer data stolen. Detected on Nov. 13, the hack wasn’t a direct attack on the company’s infrastructure. Instead, it involved a domain name hosting provider that …

Hybrid cloud management startup CloudBolt Software raises $35M

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Hybrid cloud management startup CloudBolt Software Inc. has raised $35 million in new funding to build out its technology vision, accelerate international expansion and invest in new partnerships. The Series B round consisted of a mix of equity and venture debt. The equity raise …

Intel sells Enpirion power management and controller product line to Richtek for $85M

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Intel Corp. has sold its Enpirion power management and controller product line to Richtek Technology Corp., a subsidiary of Taiwanese semiconductor company MediaTek Inc. for $85 million. Enpirion was found in 2001 by a team of technology experts from Bell Laboratories with a …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Manchester United forced to take systems offline following cyberattack

Pray.com exposes millions of user records on unsecured cloud storage

GoDaddy employees tricked into handing over control of cryptocurrency domains

Business email compromise startup Abnormal Security raises $50M

Messaging app with 100M installs exposes private data through poor security practices

Amazon lays off Prime Air staff as it seeks to outsource drone manufacturing

Facebook antitrust probe is targeting WhatsApp and Instagram acquisitions

Customer data stolen in hack targeting cryptocurrency exchange Liquid

Intel sells Enpirion power management and controller product line to Richtek for $85M

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