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

Russian arrested over attempt to bribe Tesla employee to install ransomware

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

A Russian national has been arrested for his attempt to bribe a Tesla Inc. employee to introduce ransomware at the electric car maker’s Nevada Gigafactory as part of an extortion scheme. The accused, Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov, was arrested Aug. 22 in Los Angles …

Slack fixes serious vulnerabilities but comes under fire for low payout to researcher

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Slack Technologies Inc. has fixed critical vulnerabilities in its desktop app, but the compensation paid to a researcher who uncovered the vulnerabilities has come in for criticism from the security community. The vulnerabilities were discovered by security engineer Oskars Vegeris of Evolution Gaming in …

Stolen Fortnite credentials are big business in underground marketplaces

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Fortnite, the world’s most popular game, has come in for plenty of attention lately during the battle between creator Epic Games Ltd. and both Apple Inc. and Google LLC, but it’s also drawing extensive interest from hackers. A new report released today by Night Lion …

New version of Qbot Trojan can hijack Microsoft Outlook email threads

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

A new version of the decade-old Qbot Trojan has been detected in the wild with new features, including the ability to hijack Microsoft Outlook email threads. Detailed today by security researchers at Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., the new version of Qbot is described …

New Amazon Halo fitness band is designed to track health

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Amazon.com Inc. today jumped into the fitness band market with Halo, a subscription service and fitness band of the same name that is designed to help customers improve their health. Amazon Halo combines a suite of artificial intelligence-powered health features, including the …

Strong earnings report drives Workday shares to a record high

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Shares in financial management and human capital management software firm Workday Inc. surged to a record high in after-hours trading today after the company reported better-than-expected numbers in its quarterly earnings report. For the quarter ended July 31, Workday reported revenue of $1.06 billion, up 19.6% …

Ahead of initial public offering, Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi expands into Russia

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Ahead of a likely initial public offering later this year, Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing Technology Co. is expanding its global operations with the launch of services in Russia. It’s the first time the company has offered its services in Europe. Didi debuted …

Global law enforcement operation brings down Sparks piracy group

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

A joint global law enforcement operation said today it has brought down a large online piracy group that distributed movies online before their official release. The operation, which involved law enforcement agencies in 18 countries, including the U.S. Department of Justice and …

Organizational management startup ChartHop raises $14M to expand its platform

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Organizational management platform startup ChartHop Inc. announced today it has raised $14 million in new funding to expand its platform built to eradicate manual human resources tasks and enable leaders to make data-driven decisions. The Series A round was led by Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z and …

DDoS attack forces New Zealand Stock Exchange to halt trading

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

New Zealand’s stock exchange was forced to halt trading for several hours Wednesday following a sustained cyberattack, the second in two days. In a statement, the exchange said it was targeted by a volumetric distributed-denial-of-service attack from offshore that affected its NZX system connectivity. …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Russian arrested over attempt to bribe Tesla employee to install ransomware

Slack fixes serious vulnerabilities but comes under fire for low payout to researcher

Stolen Fortnite credentials are big business in underground marketplaces

New version of Qbot Trojan can hijack Microsoft Outlook email threads

New Amazon Halo fitness band is designed to track health

Ahead of initial public offering, Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi expands into Russia

Global law enforcement operation brings down Sparks piracy group

DDoS attack forces New Zealand Stock Exchange to halt trading

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