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

7.5M customer records stolen from Dave found on the dark web

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Customer details of some 7.5 million users of financial service Dave Inc. have been found on the dark web, with the data theft linked to an earlier hack at an outside provider used by the company. The hack, revealed by Dave on …

Garmin restores services following ransomware attack as blame is pointed at Evil Corp

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Services at GPS and wearables company Garmin Ltd. are in the process of being restored following a ransomware attack last week, with the blame for the attack pointed at the hacking group Evil Corp. The attack, confirmed by the company as a “cyberattack …

Qualtrics, acquired by SAP for $8B two years ago, will be partially spun off in IPO

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

SAP SE is planning a partial spinoff of Qualtrics, the experience management software company it acquired for $8 billion in November 2018, in an public offering. The spinoff was announced today, July 26. SAP said the primary objective of the IPO was to “fortify Qualtrics’ …

Stolen Instacart customer records found for sale on the dark web

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

About 270,000 Instacart Inc. customer records have been found for sale on the dark web, but the company is denying that it has experienced a data breach. Discovered by Buzzfeed News and revealed Wednesday, the records, which are being sold for around …

Cybersecurity startup CyCognito raises $30M in round led by Accel

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Cybersecurity startup CyCognito Inc. has raised $30 million in new funding to accelerate its customer acquisition efforts. The Series B round was led by Accel and included Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sorenson Ventures and UpWest. As part of the deal, Eric Wolford, partner at Accel …

Garmin services and manufacturing knocked offline in suspected ransomware attack

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

GPS and wearables company Garmin Ltd. has suffered a suspected ransomware attack that has caused its services to be taken offline and manufacturing operations to be suspended. Details on the attack are a little slim. Garmin said on Twitter at 9:30 a.m. EDT …

Twitter’s revenue plunges amid COVID-19 pandemic as it explores subscription options

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Twitter Inc.’s revenue plunged 19% in the second quarter as Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey said the company is exploring subscription options to address Twitter’s reliance on advertising. For the quarter ended June 30, Twitter reported revenue of $683 million, down 19% from …

‘Lean and agile’ visual management software startup iObeya raises $17M

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Enterprise visual management software startup iObeya has raised $17 million in new funding to develop its platform further and accelerate the company’s expansion in the U.S., including opening a new office in Seattle. The Series B round was led by Red River West …

Earthquake data analytics startup Safehub raises $5M

BIG DATA By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Earthquake data analytics startup Safehub Inc. today said it has raised $5 million in new funding to accelerate the deployment of its service to Fortune 500 companies seeking to strengthen their business continuity and resilience efforts. The seed round was co-led by Fusion …

DNA matching service GEDmatch suffers security breach with 1M records exposed

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Online DNA matching service GEDmatch has suffered a data breach with some 1 million DNA records belonging to users being made available to law enforcement services. The company, best known as providing DNA analysis that led to the arrested of the “Golden …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

7.5M customer records stolen from Dave found on the dark web

Garmin restores services following ransomware attack as blame is pointed at Evil Corp

Qualtrics, acquired by SAP for $8B two years ago, will be partially spun off in IPO

Stolen Instacart customer records found for sale on the dark web

Cybersecurity startup CyCognito raises $30M in round led by Accel

Garmin services and manufacturing knocked offline in suspected ransomware attack

Twitter’s revenue plunges amid COVID-19 pandemic as it explores subscription options

Earthquake data analytics startup Safehub raises $5M

DNA matching service GEDmatch suffers security breach with 1M records exposed

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