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

798M email addresses found exposed on misconfigured MongoDB database

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

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 Vinny Troia Feb. 25 on a misconfigured MongoDB …

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

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

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 on Binance Ltd., the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange …

Huawei sues US government, claiming ban is unconstitutional

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

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 in Plano, Texas argues specifically that Section 889 …

eToro expands cryptocurrency trading service to the US

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

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 as provide cryptocurrency storage wallets and trading data. …

Lack of skilled workers threatens enterprise security

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

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 undertaken by Dimension Research in February. Some 80 percent …

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

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

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 a software vendor, that gives hackers a high …

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

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

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 government, the hacking campaign is said to have …

Microsoft annual security report: Phishing up, ransomware attacks down

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Phishing attacks were up in 2018 while ransomware attack were down are two keys findings from a new report from Microsoft Corp. detailing security trends. Microsoft’s annual Microsoft Security Intelligence Report Volume 24 analyzed data from 6.5 trillion security signals that go …

NTT acquires application security provider WhiteHat Security

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

NTT Security Corp., the security arm of Japanese telco giant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. today said it will acquire application security provider WhiteHat Security Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2001 by former Yahoo information security officer Jeremiah Grossman, WhiteHat provides solutions for website …

Unpatched Docker hosts attacked in cryptojacking campaign

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Hackers have successfully attacked hundreds of unpatched Docker hosts to run cryptomining scripts, according to a new report released Monday by security firm Imperva Inc. The new wave of attacks on Docker has come about following the disclosure of a vulnerability in February known …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

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

Microsoft annual security report: Phishing up, ransomware attacks down

Unpatched Docker hosts attacked in cryptojacking campaign

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