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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NASA reveals employee data stolen in October hack

The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration has admitted in an internal memo that employee information was stolen in a hack that occurred in October. The memo, first reported Tuesday by Spaceref.com, states that on Oct. 23 NASA cybersecurity personnel “began investigating a possible compromise of NASA servers where personally identifiable information was stored. “After initial analysis, ...

Apple claims iPad Pros with bends are normal, not defective

Apple Inc. was once highly respected for quality control in relation to its high-priced, premium hardware but for a number of years, it seems to have fallen short. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, however, it turns out iPad Pros have bends in them. Worse yet, the company Steve Jobs founded is claiming that bended iPad ...

HolaVPN is a massive security risk, security researchers warn

Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro Inc. today warned users of popular free virtual private network provider HolaVPN to stop using the service because it presents a range of highly unacceptable security risks. Founded in 2007, HolaVPN pitches itself as a “community” peer-to-peer VPN service in which its users act as exit points for other users. It’s difficult ...

Bank statements show Tether did hold adequate US dollar reserves

Controversial stablecoin Tether may be partially in the clear after bank statements obtained by Bloomberg and published today show that the company did hold adequate U.S. dollar reserves against its value for a critical period in 2017 and early 2018. Tether, which is owned by cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex, operates as a stablecoin. That’s a cryptocurrency that ...

Uber given green light to resume testing of self-driving vehicles in Pennsylvania

Self-driving vehicles from Uber Technologies Inc. have been given permission to return to Pennsylvania roads nine months after one of the company’s cars struck and killed a pedestrian in Arizona. The accident, in March, which was found to be due to an issue with the vehicle’s self-driving software, resulted in Uber suspending testing across its four test ...

Former Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski returns with new self-driving truck startup

Former Uber Technologies Inc. chief engineer Anthony Levandowski is back in the autonomous vehicle market with a new startup that is building technology for self-driving trucks. Called Pronto.ai, the company has designed a camera-based advanced driver assist system called Co-Pilot aimed at the long-haul trucking industry. According to The Guardian, Co-Pilot offers lane keeping, cruise control ...

In a crypto ‘Santa Claus rally,’ bitcoin price surges

Bitcoin has hit its highest price since Dec. 7 in what some are suggesting is a “Santa Claus rally” in the lead up to Christmas. The hope for a seasonal bounce for bitcoin was proposed by some in late November but instead, until today, the price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has continued to decline. ...

Wall Street Journal, printers hacked in latest fan effort to promote YouTuber PewDiePie

More printers have been targeted and the Wall Street Journal hacked in the latest attempt by supporters to gain more followers for YouTuber star PewDiePie in his battle against Bollywood music channel T-Series. The first round of printer attacks occurred early this month, with about 50,000 printers worldwide being made to print out flyers telling people to ...

Audit finds serious problems with cybersecurity at ballistic missile installations

A report from April that was published for the first time by the U.S. Department of Defense last week has found that cybersecurity at ballistic missile installations varied from lax to outright bad. The report, first detailed by ZDNet today, said the DoD Inspector General audited five separate locations that are part of the Ballistic Missile Defense ...

Twitter fixes vulnerability that exposed country code details of targeted users

Twitter Inc. has fixed a strange vulnerability on a support forum that allowed hackers to obtain the country code of accounts, which had an associated phone number as well as information on whether the account was locked. The vulnerability was discovered by Twitter on Nov. 15, when the company noticed unusual activity involving the affected ...