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

Shaking off concern with Libra hearings, bitcoin’s price starts to recover

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin investors have shaken off concern over future cryptocurrency regulation following the Libra hearings in Washington D.C. this week, driving the price of the cryptocurrency back up in a reversal of its midweek slump. The cryptocurrency’s price surged by $1,000 in 30 …

Researchers trick AI-based antivirus into accepting malicious files

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Cybersecurity researchers in Australia have found a way to trick an AI-based antivirus engine provided by BlackBerry Cylance into accepting malware as being legitimate, a discovery that may cast doubt on the methodology used by some companies in the burgeoning field of …

New bill would ban Huawei from buying and selling US patents

POLICY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is once again being targeted by U.S. lawmakers with a new bill introduced to the Senate Thursday that would ban the company from buying or selling U.S. patents. Sponsored by Senators Marco Rubio and John Cornyn, the bill seeks …

Instagram starts to remove public ‘like’ counts in user ecosystem shift

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc.-owned Instagram has started removing the “like” counts in some countries in an apparent attempt to assist with mental health and bullying — but some worry that the decision could fundamentally undermine the app’s user ecosystem. Announced at Facebook’s annual developer …

Congressman compares Libra to 9/11 on second day of Facebook testimony

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

The second episode of the new reality show “Libra goes to Washington” aired Wednesday, but there wasn’t much suspense: Facebook Inc.’s planned new cryptocurrency did not find a friendly audience. David Marcus, the head of Facebook Inc.’s Calibra division testified before the House …

Trump confirms he will look into JEDI cloud deal expected to go to AWS

POLICY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Updated with Trump confirmation and letter from Republicans to Trump: U.S. President Donald Trump today confirmed a Bloomberg report that he will take a look at the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure project, the $10 billion Pentagon cloud computing contract that has been …

800,000 systems remain exposed to BlueKeep Microsoft RDP vulnerability

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

More than 800,000 systems remain vulnerable to BlueKeep, a vulnerability found in older versions of Microsoft Corp.’s Remote Desktop Protocol, according to a newly published report. Detailed today by cybersecurity ratings company BitSight Technologies Inc., the number of exposed public-facing machines with …

Viral Russian AI-powered photo editing app FaceApp raises privacy concerns

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

FaceApp, an viral application that uses artificial intelligence to allow users to edit their photos to make themselves look old among other features is raising privacy concerns. The new version of FaceApp, the original having been launched in 2017, comes with a …

Bitcoin price plunges following Senate hearing into Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

The price of bitcoin plummeted Tuesday after a Senate hearing that questioned a Facebook Inc. executive on Libra, the company’s proposed cryptocurrency. Bitcoin fell 12% today to a 24-hour low of $9,266.56 as of 10:45 p.m EDT before recovering slightly, to $9,402.28, …

8M lines of hotel-related code exposed in latest Elasticsearch database configuration failure

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Another day, another misconfigured cloud instance exposing data, and the latest comes from AavGo, a cloud-based software provider for the hotel industry. The latest case involves a misconfigured Elasticsearch database revealed today by security researcher Daniel Brown. The database in question, now offline, included hotel guest …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Shaking off concern with Libra hearings, bitcoin’s price starts to recover

Researchers trick AI-based antivirus into accepting malicious files

New bill would ban Huawei from buying and selling US patents

Congressman compares Libra to 9/11 on second day of Facebook testimony

Trump confirms he will look into JEDI cloud deal expected to go to AWS

800,000 systems remain exposed to BlueKeep Microsoft RDP vulnerability

Viral Russian AI-powered photo editing app FaceApp raises privacy concerns

Bitcoin price plunges following Senate hearing into Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency

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