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

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250,000 resumes exposed in latest case of misconfigured cloud storage

The resumes of more than 250,000 job seekers have been found exposed online by two companies in the U.S. and U.K. in the latest case of publicly exposed cloud storage. Today’s tale of another Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud misconfiguration comes from U.S. job board Authentic Jobs Inc., with 211,130 curriculum vitae, and U.K. retail and ...

19-year-old Galileo Financial raises $77M in its first venture capital round

Galileo Financial Technologies Inc., a payments processing solution platform for financial technology firms, said today it has raised $77 million in funding to expand its product and enter new markets. The Series A round was led by Accel and included Qualtrics co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Ryan Smith. As part of the deal, Accel partner John Lock is joining ...

In Georgetown address, Mark Zuckerberg defends Facebook as a champion of free expression

Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg defended the giant social network at an address at Georgetown University today, claiming that the company was a champion of free expression. Invoking Frederick Douglass, slavery, the Enlightenment and the civil rights movement, Zuckerberg told the audience that “the ability to speak freely has been central in the fight ...

Bitcoin may have entered a bear market, teasing its lowest level in six months

Bitcoin may have entered a bear market as the price of the cryptocurrency’s price continued to drop Wednesday to some of its lowest levels in six months. The price of bitcoin dropped as low as $7.942.22 at 3:15 p.m. EDT, only slightly higher than the recent low Oct. 7 of $7,853.69, before recovering slightly to ...

Yahoo Groups to close in latest post-Verizon acquisition purge

Yahoo Groups, Yahoo’s long-running online discussion board is closing down, the latest service to do so since Yahoo was acquired by Verizon Communication Inc. in 2017. The service, a combination of electronic mailing list and threaded internet forum, can be traced back to Yahoo Clubs in 1998. Its current format was the result of Yahoo acquiring ...

337 people arrested in 11 countries for massive ‘dark web’ child exploitation site

Some 337 people across 11 eleven countries and 22 U.S. states have been arrested as part of a takedown of a dark web site that dealt in child exploitation material. The takedown, led by various U.S. law enforcement agencies and the Internal Revenue Service in conjunction with authorities in the U.K., South Korea and other ...

New cryptojacking worm spreads via Docker software containers

Security researchers at Palo Alto Network Inc.’s Unit 42 have identified the first-ever cryptojacking worm that spreads using Docker software containers. Dubbed “Graboid,” the worm spread to more than 2,000 unsecured Docker hosts and like other cryptocurrency worms before it, it utilizes the infected hosts to mine for the Monero cryptocurrency. Monero is a favorite ...

Ripple’s Xpring invests in cryptocurrency self-custody startup Towo Labs

Ripple Labs Inc.’s investment subsidiary Xpring today said it has made a strategic investment in Towo Labs AB, a Swedish startup developing technology for cryptocurrency self-custody. The investment will be used to support Towo Labs’ project roadmap for the next two years including the development of hardware wallet firmware with support for all XRP Ledger transaction types, the ...

Site that sells stolen credit card data hacked by cyber vigilantes

BriansClub, an underground site that offers more than 26 million stolen credit cards for sale, has been hacked in an apparent case of cyber vigilantism. Detailed today by security researcher Brian Krebs, the attack enabled those behind it to share the stolen card details with multiple sources who work with financial institutions to identify and monitor or reissue ...

Breezes for bitcoin: Peter Thiel-backed Layer1 raises $50M to build a cryptomining operation in Texas

Layer1 Capital LLC, a San Francisco-based cryptocurrency investment and infrastructure startup, today said it has raised $50 million to build a wind-powered bitcoin mining operation in Texas. The Series A round included Peter Thiel, Shasta Ventures and unnamed others taking the total amount raised by the company to $52.1 million to date. Founded in 2018, Layer1 ...