Duncan Riley, Author at SiliconANGLE

AI

Appen acquires machine learning data startup Figure Eight for up to $300M

By Duncan Riley Mar 10, 2019

Australia search and language data services firm Appen Ltd. today said it has acquired rival Figure Eight Inc. for $175 million upfront with an additional earn-out payment of up to $125 million in 2020 based on…

Security

Iranian hackers believed behind big data breach at Citrix

By Duncan Riley Mar 10, 2019

Citrix Systems Inc. informed customers on Friday that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation told the company that hackers gained access to its systems and stole data. While not providing much in the way…

Apps

Facebook sues Ukrainian app developers for scraping user data

By Duncan Riley Mar 10, 2019

Facebook Inc. filed a lawsuit Friday against two Ukrainian developers who allegedly created Facebook apps and browser extensions that scrapped user data and injected third-party ads. The accused, Gleb Sluchevsky and Andrey Gorbachov, are claimed…

Security

798M email addresses found exposed on misconfigured MongoDB database

By Duncan Riley Mar 7, 2019

Security researchers have discovered a publicly accessible database belonging to an email validation firm that contained a nearly 800 million email addresses along with other data. The discovery was made by Bob Diachenko and…

Blockchain

The new bitcoin? Binance Coin bucks market trends by doubling in price

By Duncan Riley Mar 7, 2019

While general cryptocurrency markets have remained sluggish this year, one cryptocurrency is bucking the trend, doubling in price over the last month. That would be Binance Coin, a coin originally designed to facilitate trades…

Infra

Huawei sues US government, claiming ban is unconstitutional

By Duncan Riley Mar 7, 2019

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. today filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government claiming that the ban against its equipment being offered for government contracts in unconstitutional. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court…

Blockchain

eToro expands cryptocurrency trading service to the US

By Duncan Riley Mar 7, 2019

Social trading and investment marketplace eToro today launched a cryptocurrency trading service in the U.S. The new service, initially available in 32 states, will allow eToro users to trade 14 different cryptocurrencies as well…

Security

Lack of skilled workers threatens enterprise security

By Duncan Riley Mar 7, 2019

A lack of skilled cybersecurity professions may soon lead to a crisis in enterprise security, according to a report released today by Tripwire Inc. The finding comes in a survey of 336 information technology security technology professionals…

Security

Google reveals details of Chrome vulnerability that was exploited before last update

By Duncan Riley Mar 6, 2019

Google LLC has revealed that a patch issued to its Chrome browser March 1 addressed a zero-day exploit that was actively being exploited in the wild. A zero-day is a vulnerability, usually unknown by…

Security

Microsoft: Iranian hackers have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage

By Duncan Riley Mar 6, 2019

A new report from Microsoft Corp. claims that Iranian hackers have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damages over the past two years. Allegedly state-sponsored, that is using hackers employed by the Iranian…

Duncan Riley

Appen acquires machine learning data startup Figure Eight for up to $300M

Iranian hackers believed behind big data breach at Citrix

Facebook sues Ukrainian app developers for scraping user data

798M email addresses found exposed on misconfigured MongoDB database

The new bitcoin? Binance Coin bucks market trends by doubling in price

Huawei sues US government, claiming ban is unconstitutional

eToro expands cryptocurrency trading service to the US

Lack of skilled workers threatens enterprise security

Google reveals details of Chrome vulnerability that was exploited before last update

Microsoft: Iranian hackers have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage

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