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

Emotet botnet returns with new Microsoft Office phishing campaign

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

The infamous botnet Emotet is back after a five-month break with a new Microsoft Office phishing campaign. The return of Emotet was first spotted by Malwarebytes Labs July 13 and the campaign took off by July 17. Emotet first emerged in 2014, …

Twitter blames social engineering for hack as a possible suspect is named

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Further details came to light today concerning the hack of Twitter Inc. Wednesday in which scammers tweeted bitcoin scam messages across a large number of high-profile accounts — including a possible suspect behind the attack. The path to the hack is still somewhat …

Federal government agencies ordered to patch critical Windows Server vulnerability

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency today issued an emergency directive ordering civil federal government agencies using Windows Server to patch a critical security vulnerability revealed by Microsoft Corp. earlier this week. The vulnerability, dubbed “SIGRed,” resides …

US, UK and Canada warn that Russian hackers are targeting COVID-19 research

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

The U.S., U.K. and Canada today issued a joint advisory warning that a hacking group linked to Russian intelligence services is targeting COVID-19 related research. The advisory was written by the U.K. National Cyber Security Center and Canada’s Communications Security Establishment with support from …

Barracuda Networks launches new SD-WAN solution for Microsoft Azure

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Cloud cybersecurity firm Barracuda Networks Inc. today launched a new software-defined wide-area network service for Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud. Called Barracuda CloudGen WAN, the service is pitched as the first SD-WAN solution that runs inside Azure Virtual WAN Hubs. A virtual hub on Azure is …

Report: Cloud backup software company Datto files for initial public offering

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Cloud backup software company Datto Inc. has confidentially filed for an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, according to a report today from Bloomberg. Acquired by Vista Equity Partners in 2017, the company is said to be considering whether to …

142M alleged MGM customer records found for sale on the dark web

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

A data breach involving the theft of customer records from MGM Resorts International last year may have been much larger than initially thought, with some 142 million allegedly hacked MGM customer records found for sale on the shady part of the internet known …

Microsoft, SAP, Adobe and Google release updates for security vulnerabilities

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

The second Tuesday of each month is best known among security professionals as Patch Tuesday, the day Microsoft Corp. releases patches for security vulnerabilities across its products. This time it’s a party, as SAP SE, Adobe Systems Inc. and Google LLC all …

Citing security concerns, UK bans Huawei from 5G networks

POLICY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Following in the footsteps of allies that include the U.S., Australia, New Zealand and Japan, the U.K. has announced that it will ban the use of equipment from Huawei Electronics Co. Ltd. across the country’s 5G network. The ban means the purchase …

Venture capital drops during pandemic-plagued second quarter but starts to recover

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

2020 has been an unprecedented year thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, with radical changes in the way tech companies do business coupled with economic disruption that arguably is unrivaled since the Great Depression — and venture capital hasn’t been completely spared either. …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Emotet botnet returns with new Microsoft Office phishing campaign

Twitter blames social engineering for hack as a possible suspect is named

Federal government agencies ordered to patch critical Windows Server vulnerability

US, UK and Canada warn that Russian hackers are targeting COVID-19 research

142M alleged MGM customer records found for sale on the dark web

Microsoft, SAP, Adobe and Google release updates for security vulnerabilities

Citing security concerns, UK bans Huawei from 5G networks

Venture capital drops during pandemic-plagued second quarter but starts to recover

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