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

Patch now: Supermicro server vulnerabilities open the door to hackers

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

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” by security researchers at Eclypsium Inc., the vulnerabilities, …

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

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

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 used the technology in a phone call with …

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

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

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 former business partner David Kleiman. Southern District Court of …

UK travel company exposes customer calls on misconfigured cloud storage

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

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 records of customer calls. Uncovered by Verdict, the …

French ‘cybergendarmes’ take down huge cryptomining botnet

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

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 dubbed “cybergendarmes,” targeted the botnet after being tipped off …

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

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

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. The attack, first revealed Aug. 30 by Ian Beer, a …

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

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

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 a 10 out 10 for severity. The vulnerability in …

No smiles: Hundreds of US dentists targeted in ransomware attack

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

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 reports of ransomware affecting dentists in July. But a …

Alleged Capital One hacker indicted for hacking 30 other companies

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

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 have been involved in the hacking of other …

Binance launches new developer platform to foster blockchain innovation

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, today rolled out a new developer platform aimed at fostering blockchain innovation, particularly across the company’s existing platforms. Called Binance X, the initiative includes a hub where developers receive educational material and support for …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

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

Binance launches new developer platform to foster blockchain innovation

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