Duncan Riley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Cloud

Payments startup SpotOn raises $50M to boost product development

By Duncan Riley Mar 11, 2020

Payments startup SpotOn Transact Inc. announced today it has raised $50 million in new funding to continue the company’s investment into product development and building solutions for specific industries. The Series B round was led by…

Security

Microsoft leads effort to take down infamous malware-spreading Necurs botnet

By Duncan Riley Mar 11, 2020

Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday it has teamed with security firm Bitsight Technologies Inc. and others to take down the infamous Necurs botnet. The botnet, regarded as one of the world’s most prolific botnets, has…

Apps

Two RSA Conference attendees test positive for coronavirus

By Duncan Riley Mar 10, 2020

Hacking and other security issues were the themes of this year’s RSA Conference, but it’s a new type of virus that the conference may be remembered: It turns out that at least two attendees…

Cloud

IT support solutions startup Electric.ai raises $14.5M from 01 Advisors

By Duncan Riley Mar 10, 2020

Information technology support solutions startup Electric.ai said today it has raised $14.5 million in new funding from 01 Advisors, the investment firm run by former Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Officer Dick Costolo and Twitter Chief…

Security

Russian-linked Ryuk ransomware hits Durham, NC

By Duncan Riley Mar 9, 2020

The City of Durham, North Carolina and the County of Durham are the latest victims of a ransomware attack, with services taken offline over the weekend as officials attempted to contain and fix the infection.…

Apps

Stock trading app Robinhood goes down – yet again – on record day of trading

By Duncan Riley Mar 9, 2020

Popular online stock trading app Robinhood Market Inc. suffered its third major crash in a week, denying users the ability to trade on a day the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered its single biggest point…

Policy

Tech stocks hammered as markets plunge on coronavirus and oil price fears

By Duncan Riley Mar 9, 2020

Tech stocks were hammered today as equities markets overall suffered their worst day of trading since the global financial crisis — not surprisingly, thanks to heightened coronavirus fears and a plunging world oil price following a…

Security

Hackers target potential victims with fake coronavirus websites and phishing scams

By Duncan Riley Mar 8, 2020

As the spread of novel coronavirus continues to make headlines globally and events such as South by Southwest are canceled, scammers are taking advantage of the news through targeted phishing emails and scam websites.…

Security

FBI: Hackers are targeting Office 365, G Suite users with business email compromise attacks

By Duncan Riley Mar 8, 2020

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a new warning that hackers are currently targeting users of Microsoft Officer 365 and Google G Suite in so-called business email compromise attacks. The warning, issued…

AI

Nvidia buys object data storage startup SwiftStack to build out its AI stack

By Duncan Riley Mar 5, 2020

Nvidia Corp. has acquired SwiftStack Inc., the maker of an object data storage and management platform for data-intensive applications and workflows, for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2011, SwiftStack offers cloud-based software to manage cloud storage…

Duncan Riley

Payments startup SpotOn raises $50M to boost product development

Microsoft leads effort to take down infamous malware-spreading Necurs botnet

Two RSA Conference attendees test positive for coronavirus

Russian-linked Ryuk ransomware hits Durham, NC

Stock trading app Robinhood goes down – yet again – on record day of trading

Hackers target potential victims with fake coronavirus websites and phishing scams

FBI: Hackers are targeting Office 365, G Suite users with business email compromise attacks

Nvidia buys object data storage startup SwiftStack to build out its AI stack

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