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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Nozomi Networks enhances threat response with new Mandiant-powered TI Expansion Pack

Industrial cybersecurity firm Nozomi Networks Inc. today announced the general availability of the Nozomi TI Expansion Pack, a new federated solution powered by Mandiant Threat Intelligence that helps strengthen the way industrial and enterprise security teams anticipate, diagnose and respond to cyber threats. The new expansion pack, created as part of Nozomi’s expanded partnership with Google LLC’s ...

Cloud cost management startup nOps secures $30M

Cloud management platform provider nOps Inc. announced today that it has raised $30 million in new funding to accelerate the development of its FinOps platform, expand integrations with Amazon Web Services Inc. and open-source technologies and enhance customer experience. Founded in 2015, nOps offers an AWS cloud optimization platform that is designed to simplify and automate the tracking, ...

OpenAI reportedly preparing to launch new ‘Strawberry’ AI model

OpenAI is reportedly preparing to launch a new artificial intelligence product with advanced features that can solve problems and tasks that are beyond current AI models. First reported by The Information, the new model is internally referred to as “Strawberry” and is said, among other things, to be able to solve math problems it has ...

SentinelOne achieves second-quarter profitability thanks to strong customer growth

Shares in SentinelOne Inc. rose only slightly in after-hours trading today after the cybersecurity company reported modest earnings and revenue beats in its fiscal 2025 second quarter and forecast a better-than-expected outlook for the full year. For the quarter that ended on July 31, SentinelOne reported adjusted earnings of a penny per share, reversing a loss of ...

Fortinet expands unified SASE solution with sovereign options and AI integration

Cybersecurity firm Fortinet Inc. today announced updates to its secure access service edge solution, introducing new sovereign SASE options and the integration of generative artificial intelligence capabilities to provide improved flexibility in managing hybrid networks. Fortinet Unified SASE provides complete integration between Fortinet’s Secure SD-WAN solution and cloud-delivered security service edge under a single console for seamless ...

BrowserStack acquires Bird Eats Bug to enhance bug reporting capabilities

Web and mobile testing company BrowserStack Inc. today announced that it has acquired bug reporting tool startup Bird Eats Bug for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2020 as Bird Labs GmbH, Bird Eats Bug offers a bug reporting tool that helps companies streamline their software development process by providing an efficient way to capture, track and ...

DigitalOcean enhances role-based access control with new predefined roles

Developer-oriented cloud infrastructure provider DigitalOcean Holdings Inc. today announced updates to its role-based access control for streamlined company security and operations. Digital Ocean’s role-based access control is a method for managing the use of access to systems and resources within an organization by assigning permissions to roles rather than to individual users. The updates today offer a ...

Seattle-Tacoma Airport suffers through third day of disruptions following possible ransomware attack

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle, Washington, suffered through its third day of service disruptions today after a reported cyberattack disrupted services at the airport starting on Saturday. According to the Port of Seattle, which owns and operates the airport, the attack resulted in “internet web system outages,” which impacted some of the systems at the airport. A ...

Flashpoint report reveals surge in vulnerabilities and infostealing malware in first half of 2024

A new report out today from business risk intelligence startup Flashpoint has found that new vulnerabilities that were discovered rose, though not by a lot, in the first half of this year and that cybercriminals are increasingly using info-stealing malware to steal personal information. The Flashpoint Cyber Threat Intelligence Index, based on data, trends and emerging ...

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested in France over alleged failure to moderate criminal content

Pavel Durov, the co-founder and chief executive officer of encrypted-messaging app company Telegram Messenger Inc., was arrested by French authorities on Saturday evening local time on serious charges relating to abetting terrorism, fraud, money laundering and crimes against children. The charges do not allege that Durov himself undertook any such crimes. However, it’s alleged that he ...