Duncan Riley, Author at SiliconANGLE

Blockchain

As China-US trade tensions intensify, bitcoin keeps rising

By Duncan Riley Aug 5, 2019

Bitcoin’s return to form continued on Monday thanks to trade tensions between China and the U.S. along with the possibility of the Middle Kingdom easing its stance against cryptocurrencies. After breaking through $11,000 on…

Security

Monzo asks customers to change PINs after exposure to unauthorized staff

By Duncan Riley Aug 5, 2019

U.K. digital bank Monzo Bank Ltd. is asking some 480,000 customers to change their personal identification numbers after it left them exposed to unauthorized staff for six months. The potential breach was caused by what the…

Security

IBM report finds destructive malware attacks have doubled since January

By Duncan Riley Aug 5, 2019

A new report released today by IBM Corp.’s X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services team says destructive malware attacks have shot up threefold over the last six months as cybercriminals and nation-state actors escalate their…

Security

23M CafePress customer records hacked and shared online

By Duncan Riley Aug 5, 2019

The details of 23 million users of online merchandise provider CafePress Inc. have been stolen and shared online in a hack that neither CafePress nor its owner Snapfish Inc. have publicly disclosed as of…

Blockchain

Bitcoin breaks through $11,000 after a poor showing in July

By Duncan Riley Aug 4, 2019

The price of bitcoin broke through $11,000 on Sunday as the cryptocurrency recovered after a poor showing in July. The slow return to form for the world’s most popular cryptocurrency has been weeks in…

Security

New LookBack phishing campaign targets utility companies with malicious attachments

By Duncan Riley Aug 4, 2019

A recently detected phishing campaign targeting U.S. utility companies is believed to have its origins with a state-sponsored hacking group from China according to security researchers. First detailed Thursday by researchers at Proofpoint Inc., the…

Security

6.8M records stolen in hack of sneaker trading site StockX

By Duncan Riley Aug 4, 2019

Venture capital-backed sneaker trading site StockX Inc. is the latest to be hacked, with the records of 6.8 million customers stolen. The hack was originally covered up with StockX pushing out a password reset…

Policy

Pentagon orders review of JEDI cloud deal expected to go to AWS

By Duncan Riley Aug 1, 2019

The U.S. Department of Defense announced today that it’s reviewing its process for the awarding of the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract after President Donald Trump raised concerns about the exclusion…

Security

School and university data breached in hack of education company Pearson

By Duncan Riley Aug 1, 2019

Education company Pearson Plc has been hacked, with data stolen from about 13,000 school and university accounts primarily in the U.S. The hack, which was buried in a media release titled as “Pearson customer…

Infra

Dynatrace raises $570M, pops 49% on its first day of trading

By Duncan Riley Aug 1, 2019

After raising $570 million in its initial public offering, application monitoring firm Dynatrace LLC saw its shares pop 49% on the New York Stock Exchange today as investors lapped up another offering in what is already…

Duncan Riley

As China-US trade tensions intensify, bitcoin keeps rising

Monzo asks customers to change PINs after exposure to unauthorized staff

IBM report finds destructive malware attacks have doubled since January

23M CafePress customer records hacked and shared online

Bitcoin breaks through $11,000 after a poor showing in July

New LookBack phishing campaign targets utility companies with malicious attachments

6.8M records stolen in hack of sneaker trading site StockX

School and university data breached in hack of education company Pearson

Dynatrace raises $570M, pops 49% on its first day of trading

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