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

Google confesses it stored some G Suite passwords in plain text for years

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Google LLC warned today that the passwords of some G Suite business customers had been stored in plain text for as long as 14 years. The passwords were stored unhashed, that is unencrypted, in Google internal systems with no suggestion that they may …

Ooma acquires cloud-based data and voice solutions provider Broadsmart for $7.4M

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Telecommunications firm Ooma Inc. today said it has acquired cloud-based data and voice solutions provider Broadsmart Global Inc. for $7.4 million. Founded in 2000 and owned by B. Riley Principal Investments, Broadsmart Global is a cloud-based communications provider that claims to provide high value, high quality …

Marvell acquires custom chipmaker Avera Semiconductor for $650M

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Semiconductor firm Marvell Technology Group Ltd. said Monday it has reached a deal to acquire Avera Semiconductor LLC, the custom-chip business of GlobalFoundries Inc. The acquisition price came in at $650 million up front in cash with a potential earn-out of up to $90 …

Homeland Security issues warning against Chinese drones

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has issued a warning about security risks pertaining to Chinese made drones. The notice, titled “Chinese Manufactured Unmanned Aircraft Systems,” warns that there are “strong concerns about any technology product that takes American data into the …

Instagram user information exposed on misconfigured AWS instance

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

In yet another case of a misconfigured Amazon Web Services Inc. instance, a database with records of more than 49 million Instagram users, including so-called “influencers,” has been found online exposed to all and sundry. The database, discovered by a security researcher …

Wild bitcoin roller coaster ride sees price plunge 21% before recovering

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin went on a wild roller coaster ride involving billions of dollars in value over the weekend, dropping more than $1,300 at one point until mostly recovering as of Sunday evening. The current ride dates back to bitcoin breaking through $6,000 on May 9, surging again …

Hacking forum for trading stolen credentials hacked by other hackers

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

OGusers, a popular forum for trading stolen account credentials, has itself been hacked and details of members were published on another hacking forum. The hack started with an administrator telling users May 12 that a hard drive failure had erased a few months …

Salesforce recovers from outage caused by faulty database script

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Salesforce.com Inc. has managed to recover from a database error that saw widespread outages for customers from midday Friday through Saturday morning. The outage had its origin in an update just before 1 p.m. EDT Friday when Salesforce engineers deployed a database script that …

JoyToken and RepuX token promoters alleged to have stolen $8M in exit scam

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Two separate initial coin offerings are alleged to have undertaken exit scams in yet another round of pain for investors. The two ICOs, RepuX and JoyToken, are said to have stolen $4.7 million and $3.3 million from investors respectively according to a report …

Report: Coinbase in advanced talks to acquire bitcoin custody provider Xapo

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY7 YEARS AGO

Coinbase Inc. is in advanced talks to acquire old-school bitcoin custody provider Xapo Inc., according to an unconfirmed published Thursday. The Block, quoting unnamed sources, claimed that Coinbase has been locked in a “neck-and-neck race” with Fidelity Digital Assets to acquire Zapo over …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Marvell acquires custom chipmaker Avera Semiconductor for $650M

Homeland Security issues warning against Chinese drones

Wild bitcoin roller coaster ride sees price plunge 21% before recovering

Hacking forum for trading stolen credentials hacked by other hackers

JoyToken and RepuX token promoters alleged to have stolen $8M in exit scam

Report: Coinbase in advanced talks to acquire bitcoin custody provider Xapo

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