Duncan Riley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Emerging Tech

What Galaxy Fold problems? Samsung may be developing a new folding smartphone

By Duncan Riley Sep 3, 2019

Despite failing to bring its Galaxy Fold to market following design flaws, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is reported to be developing a second folding phone at a more affordable price. The claims comes from…

Security

Patch now: Supermicro server vulnerabilities open the door to hackers

By Duncan Riley Sep 3, 2019

More than 47,000 servers manufactured by Super Micro Computer Inc. are open to hacking following the discovery of a new set of vulnerabilities that affect the management control firmware used on some the firm’s motherboards. Dubbed “USBAnywhere”…

Emerging Tech

Fake AI-generated voice of CEO used to defraud energy company

By Duncan Riley Sep 3, 2019

An unnamed energy company has been defrauded of $243,000 by scammers who used artificial intelligence to mimic the voice of its chief executive officer. In an incident detailed by The Wall Street Journal, the scammers…

Blockchain

Craig ‘Satoshi’ Wright to appeal $5B bitcoin court ruling

By Duncan Riley Sep 2, 2019

Craig Wright, the man who on several occasions has claimed to be bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, is appealing a court ruling that ordered him to hand over around $5 billion in bitcoin to the estate of…

Security

UK travel company exposes customer calls on misconfigured cloud storage

By Duncan Riley Sep 2, 2019

U.K. travel company Truly Travels Ltd., better known as Teletext Holidays, has exposed the records of over 500,000 customer transactions on a misconfigured Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 storage instance, including some 212,000 audio…

Blockchain

French ‘cybergendarmes’ take down huge cryptomining botnet

By Duncan Riley Sep 1, 2019

French police have managed to take down a botnet of more than 850,000 computers that were being used to mine the Monero cryptocurrency. The operation, led by a team from France’s C3N digital crime-fighting center…

Security

Report: China behind iPhone hacking, targeted Android and Windows too

By Duncan Riley Sep 1, 2019

An attack that used malicious websites to hack iPhones is now believed to have originated in China and, in a new development, appears to have targeted Android devices and Microsoft Windows PCs as well.…

Security

Update now: Cisco releases patch to address critical vulnerability in IOS XE devices

By Duncan Riley Aug 29, 2019

Cisco Systems Inc. is urging customers to update affected routers quickly after the discovery and disclosure of a severe vulnerability on devices running its IOS XE operating system. CVE-2019-12643, as it’s known, ranked as…

Security

No smiles: Hundreds of US dentists targeted in ransomware attack

By Duncan Riley Aug 29, 2019

Hundreds of dentist offices across the U.S. have been crippled by ransomware in the latest attack to target the healthcare industry. The attacks appear to have started as early as June 24 with some…

Security

Alleged Capital One hacker indicted for hacking 30 other companies

By Duncan Riley Aug 29, 2019

Paige A. Thompson, the alleged hacker behind the theft of more than 100 million customer records from Capital One Financial Corp., has been indicted on additional charges for hacking more than 30 companies. Thompson was first said to…

Duncan Riley

What Galaxy Fold problems? Samsung may be developing a new folding smartphone

Patch now: Supermicro server vulnerabilities open the door to hackers

Fake AI-generated voice of CEO used to defraud energy company

Craig ‘Satoshi’ Wright to appeal $5B bitcoin court ruling

UK travel company exposes customer calls on misconfigured cloud storage

French ‘cybergendarmes’ take down huge cryptomining botnet

Report: China behind iPhone hacking, targeted Android and Windows too

Update now: Cisco releases patch to address critical vulnerability in IOS XE devices

No smiles: Hundreds of US dentists targeted in ransomware attack

Alleged Capital One hacker indicted for hacking 30 other companies

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