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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Microsoft Teams for Linux now available in public preview

Microsoft Teams has gone where no Microsoft Office app has gone before: Linux. Microsoft Corp. today expanded the reach of its already market-leading online collaboration service to the open-source operating system. The new Microsoft Teams for Linux has been released in public preview, bringing collaboration to the open-source community at work and in education institutions. The ...

Updated versions of iOS and iPadOS include security and product updates

Apple Inc. today released operating system updates across its range of products, iOS leading the way with a number of important security fixes and new features. iOS 13.3 along with iPadOS 13.3, introduced communication limits in its Screen Time monitoring service for the first time. The new controls enable parents to place limits on whom ...

New version of Google Chrome offers beefed-up security features

Google LLC today released a new version of its popular Chrome browser complete with a range of new security features designed to make the browsing experience safer. For one, Chrome 79 integrates Password Checkup, a feature previously available as a plugin as standard in the browser. The service checks login details and tells users if their ...

Ripple’s Xpring launches one-stop developer platform for blockchain payments

Ripple Labs Inc.’s investment subsidiary Xpring today launched a new developer platform that has been designed as a one-stop shop for developers to manage everything they need when it comes to integrating blockchain payments. Xpring.io for developers, an extension of their previously announced Xpring Platform, is an open developer platform designed to remove the pain of integrating money into ...

Digital adoption platform provider WalkMe raises $90M

Digital adoption platform provider WalkMe Ltd. said today it has raised $90 million in new funding. The Series G round was led by Vitruvian Partners and included previous investor Insight Partners. The new funding took WalkMe’s total amount raised to $307.5 million. Founded in 2011, WalkMe offers a digital adoption program for enterprises, primarily targeting its ...

Data supplier to US government provider exposes birth certificates on cloud storage

Some 750,000 birth certificates have been found expose online in a yet another story of a company that didn’t secure its cloud storage, but this story has a twist: The provider was a third-party supplier of data to the U.S. government. The unnamed company, detected by Fidus Information Security Ltd. and first reported today by TechCrunch, ...

Report: BMW and Hyundai targeted by APT32 hacking group

A threat group believed to have ties to the government of Vietnam is likely be behind the hacking of networks belonging to two car manufacturers: Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, better known as BMW, and Hyundai Motor Co. According to a report in German media Dec. 5, the attacks are believed to have taken place sometime in spring and allegedly involved ...

As Uber issues safety report, CEO calls sexual-assault numbers a ‘reflection on society’

Uber Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi has responded to the company’s safety report released Dec. 5 by saying in an interview that the sexual assaults were a “reflection on society.” The report found that 3,045 sexual assaults occurred in its vehicles in 2018, up slightly from 2,936 in 2017. Adjusted for increased ride growth, ...

Microsoft study finds 44M users using breached passwords

A new study from Microsoft Security has found that 44 million Microsoft and Azure cloud account holders were using passwords that were stolen in data breaches. The study, published late last week, analyzed more than 3 billion credentials known to have been stolen by hackers using third-party sources, then compared that data to credentials used on ...

Behavioral security analytics startup Cyberhaven raises $13M

Behavioral security analytics startup Cyberhaven Inc. today launched its main product with the announcement of $13 million in funding to further boost product development. The Series A round was led by Vertex Ventures and Costanoa Ventures and included Crane Venture Partners along with a number of individual investors. The company was founded in 2015 by a team of five ...