Duncan Riley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Security

23 local governments in Texas crippled by coordinated ransomware attack

By Duncan Riley Aug 18, 2019

About 23 local governments in Texas have been crippled in an unprecedented coordinated ransomware attack. The attack started on Friday. Texas State officials didn’t name which local governments were affected, only describing them as…

Emerging Tech

Proving foldable smartphones are hard, Huawei delays release of Mate X

By Duncan Riley Aug 15, 2019

Smartphone sales have stagnated over the past few years and even started to decline as newly released phones struggle to provide any great leap forward in functionality and design. Then along came foldable phones in…

Security

700,000 Choice Hotels customer records stolen, held for ransom

By Duncan Riley Aug 15, 2019

Some 700,000 customer records belonging to Choice Hotels International Inc. have been stolen and those behind the data theft are demanding a ransom payment of 0.4 bitcoin ($4,142) to delete their copy. In a…

Blockchain

Ripple’s Xpring invests $264M into micropayments startup Coil

By Duncan Riley Aug 15, 2019

Ripple Labs Inc.’s investment subsidiary Xpring today announced a grant of 1 billion Ripple XRP cryptocurrency worth about $264 million into Coil Technologies Inc., a provider of micropayments for content providers. The funding will…

Big Data

Data analytics startup Incorta raises $30M to expand operations

By Duncan Riley Aug 15, 2019

Data analytics startup Incorta Inc. today said it has raised $30 million in new funding to expand its headcount, invest in further product development, deepen relationships with the major public cloud providers and reduce operational costs.…

Blockchain

Bitcoin price drops as US-China trade tensions ease, renminbi rises

By Duncan Riley Aug 14, 2019

The price of bitcoin looked set to drop below the important $10,000 mark in trading Wednesday as the cryptocurrency loses most of it gains made since the beginning of the month. Bitcoin was trading at $10,043.19 as of…

Security

Huawei employees allegedly helped African governments spy on opponents

By Duncan Riley Aug 14, 2019

Employees of Huawei Electronics Co. Ltd. have assisted governments in at least two African countries of spying on political opponents, the Wall Street Journal said today in an exclusive investigation. The report, which did not find…

Infra

BC Partners acquires IT services firm Presidio for $2.1B

By Duncan Riley Aug 14, 2019

Information technology services firm Presidio Inc. is going private two years after its initial public offering as the company’s board accepted a $2.1 billion all-cash acquisition offer from private equity firm BC Partners. The…

Security

Capital One hacker may have stolen data from 30+ other companies

By Duncan Riley Aug 14, 2019

Paige A. Thompson, the alleged hacker behind the theft of more than 100 million customer records from Capital One Financial Corp., may have stolen data from more than 30 other companies and organizations, according to a court…

Security

Aggressive new ‘Norman’ cryptominer attempts to hide and avoid discovery

By Duncan Riley Aug 14, 2019

A new aggressive form of cryptomining malware has been discovered in a midsized company with features that alarmed those who discovered it. Detailed today by the Varonis Security Research team, the cryptomining malware dubbed “Norman” uses various…

Duncan Riley

23 local governments in Texas crippled by coordinated ransomware attack

Proving foldable smartphones are hard, Huawei delays release of Mate X

700,000 Choice Hotels customer records stolen, held for ransom

Ripple’s Xpring invests $264M into micropayments startup Coil

Data analytics startup Incorta raises $30M to expand operations

Bitcoin price drops as US-China trade tensions ease, renminbi rises

Huawei employees allegedly helped African governments spy on opponents

BC Partners acquires IT services firm Presidio for $2.1B

Capital One hacker may have stolen data from 30+ other companies

Aggressive new ‘Norman’ cryptominer attempts to hide and avoid discovery

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