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

Snap CFO Tim Stone to depart after only eight months

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Snap Inc. is losing another executive as Chief Financial Officer Tim Stone is set to leave the company after only eight months on the job. Stone, who had worked at Amazon.com Inc. for nearly 20 years, most previously in the position of …

Texas city forced to resort to pen and paper following ransomware attack

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

A city in Texas has been forced to return to the days of pen and paper after a ransomware attack crippled their computer network. In the latest of many similar attacks, the unknown form of ransomware shut down computers run by the …

Microsoft to drop free support for Windows 7 in January 2020

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

The end is nigh for Windows 7 as Microsoft Corp. announced today that it would stop offering free support for the operating system one year from today. Free is the key word. Microsoft is withdrawing mainstream support — that is, free security …

HSBC ran $250B in transactions through its blockchain platform in 2018

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Global banking conglomerate HSBC Holdings PLC isn’t just talking about blockchain solutions but doing things, revealing that it ran $250 billion in transactions through its in-house blockchain platform last year. The figure comes from HSBC’s implementation of a private blockchain to handle more …

Proposed US rules would allow drones to be flown at night

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

The Trump administration has proposed new rules for flying drones that would allow the devices to be flown at night and over people without the need for special permission. Driven by growing commercial interests in drones, the draft proposals from the U.S. …

As bitcoin continues to fall, economists blame too many alternative coins

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

As the price of bitcoin continued to drop over the weekend, two economists have argued that the supply of altcoins may be to blame for bitcoin’s 13-month swoon. Bitcoin was trading at $3,521.12 as of 9:15 p.m. EST after staying above $3,600 since …

Lime pulls service in Switzerland after faulty e-scooters throw users off their rides

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Problems with the technology behind self-driving cars and occasional issues with Uber Technologies Inc. drivers are well-known, but in a new twist, faulty technology in e-scooters is now throwing users off their rides. The story comes from Switzerland, where the Uber and …

Ryuk ransomware now believed to be the work of Russian crime syndicate

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Ryuk, a form of ransomware that first appeared last year and was attributed to North Korea, may actually be the work of a Russian criminal syndicate. That’s according to research published late last week by Crowdstrike, FireEye and McAfee Labs, which all came to the same conclusion …

Another bear market? Bitcoin plunges nearly 10% in a day

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

After a somewhat stable start to the year, the price of bitcoin plunged by nearly 10 percent in the last 24 hours in what may be a return to the bear market of 2018. Bitcoin, which had been trading in a band …

Unprotected MongoDB instance exposes resumes of 202 million Chinese nationals

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

A security researcher has uncovered a publicly exposed MongoDB instance that includes the resumes of 202 million Chinese nationals, but in a new twist, it’s unknown who owns the database. Discovered by Bob Diachenko of Hacken in late December, the MongoDB instance included …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Snap CFO Tim Stone to depart after only eight months

Texas city forced to resort to pen and paper following ransomware attack

Microsoft to drop free support for Windows 7 in January 2020

HSBC ran $250B in transactions through its blockchain platform in 2018

Proposed US rules would allow drones to be flown at night

As bitcoin continues to fall, economists blame too many alternative coins

Lime pulls service in Switzerland after faulty e-scooters throw users off their rides

Ryuk ransomware now believed to be the work of Russian crime syndicate

Another bear market? Bitcoin plunges nearly 10% in a day

Unprotected MongoDB instance exposes resumes of 202 million Chinese nationals

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