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

Latest from Duncan Riley

US Coast Guard base crippled in Ryuk ransomware attack

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

A U.S. Coast Guard base was crippled in a ransomware attack late December that interrupted cameras, door access control systems and critical monitoring systems. The attack against an unnamed base, formally a Maritime Transportation Security Act regulated facility involved the Ryuk ransomware …

Poloniex resets customer passwords after alleged data leak that wasn’t

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex, owned by Circle Internet Financial Ltd. has reset some customer passwords after suffering an alleged data leak that actually turned out not to be. The so-called data leak first appeared on Twitter with the information claimed to be related to …

Amid concerns about links to China, US Army bans use of TikTok

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

The U.S. Army today banned popular social media app TikTok from mobile devices due to security concerns about the app’s link to China, following in the footsteps of the U.S. Navy that implemented an identical ban last month. The ban applies to government-issued phones …

Foreign currency exchange provider Travelex suspends services following malware attack

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Foreign currency exchange provider Travelex was forced to suspend some services today after the company was struck by malware Dec. 31. The details of the attack are not clear. The company described it only as a “software virus” that has “compromised some …

Uber and Postmates sue California over law to limit how they hire gig-economy contractors

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Uber Technologies Inc., Postmates Inc. and two drivers have filed a lawsuit against the State of California against a law set to go into effect Jan. 1 that limits how they can hire gig-economy and freelance contractors. Assembly Bill 5, signed by California …

Microsoft seizes domain names used by alleged North Korean hacking group

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. has successfully seized 50 domain names being used by a suspected North Korean hacking group as part of a broader campaign against cybercrime. The hacking group, dubbed “Thallium,” is alleged to have been using the domains to conduct its operations. …

Ring sued by man claiming the company failed to deliver on security

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Connected internet device maker Ring LLC has been sued by a man claiming that his internet-connected camera was hacked and used to harass his children. The litigant, John Baker Orange, filed in the United States District Court Central District of California Dec. …

Uber obtains approval from Egypt to proceed with Careem acquisition

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Uber Technologies Inc. has been given approval by Egypt’s Competition Authority to acquire Middle Eastern ride-hailing startup Careem Networks FZ some nine months after the deal was announced. Careem operates in 120 cities across North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia, but of the …

Wyze exposes 2.4M customer records via unsecured Elasticsearch database

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Internet-connected device maker Wyze Labs Inc. has suffered a data breach, though the company claims there’s no evidence the data was accessed by any nefarious third parties. The data breach, first detailed by 12 Security Dec. 26, involved an unsecured Elasticsearch database with 2.4 …

YouTube purges thousands of cryptocurrency videos before claiming deletions were ‘in error’

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Google LLC’s YouTube has deleted thousands of bitcoin and cryptocurrency-related videos in an apparent purge but in a backflip is now claiming that the deletions were “in error.” The purge started just before Christmas and primarily targeted small independent channels. Creators claimed they received …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

US Coast Guard base crippled in Ryuk ransomware attack

Poloniex resets customer passwords after alleged data leak that wasn’t

Amid concerns about links to China, US Army bans use of TikTok

Foreign currency exchange provider Travelex suspends services following malware attack

Uber and Postmates sue California over law to limit how they hire gig-economy contractors

Microsoft seizes domain names used by alleged North Korean hacking group

Ring sued by man claiming the company failed to deliver on security

Uber obtains approval from Egypt to proceed with Careem acquisition

Wyze exposes 2.4M customer records via unsecured Elasticsearch database

YouTube purges thousands of cryptocurrency videos before claiming deletions were ‘in error’

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