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

Amazon launches AWS Security Hub for monitoring security issues

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Amazon.com Inc. today rolled out a new service for monitoring and prioritizing security issues for Amazon Web Services Inc. customers. Called the AWS Security Hub, the service has been designed to provide AWS users with a comprehensive view of their security state …

Amazon launches toy car and racing league to encourage reinforcement learning development

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

In a novel offering, Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing company today launched 1/18th scale robotic self-driving cars along with a racing league to go with them as a way to encourage the development of reinforcement learning technology. Called the AWS DeepRacer, the car is …

Bitcoin price stabilizes as Bitcoin Cash war comes to an end

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

The price of bitcoin has settled as the ongoing war between Bitcoin Cash factions has seemingly come to an end. Bitcoin started plunging in price around Nov. 14 as a hard fork in Bitcoin Cash, itself a fork of bitcoin, spooked investors and …

Bird launches platform for others to own their own e-scooter hire business

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Electric scooter hire startup Bird Rides Inc., a Sequoia Capital-backed competitor to companies owned and backed by ride-hailing companies Lyft Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc., Tuesday launched a “platform” that allows people to manage their own fleet of e-scooters. Called Bird Platform, the …

Uber fined $1.2M by two European countries over 2016 data breach

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Uber Technologies Inc. has been fined $1.2 million by two European countries over a large data breach in 2016 that it failed to disclose until late 2017. The data breach, revealed in November 2017, involved the theft of records, including the names and …

Amazon cloud service to mine medical records for better healthcare

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Adding to a flurry of new services announced at its re:Invent cloud conference this week in Las Vegas, Amazon Web Services Inc. Tuesday launched a new service that allows healthcare providers to mine medical records for information that can be used to …

Study finds half of phishing sites now use SSL protection to trick users

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

A new study from security firm PhishLabs Inc. has found that nearly half of all phishing sites now deploy Secure Sockets Layer protection complete with a padlock icon in the browser bar in an attempt to give people a false sense of …

Hospitals in Ohio and West Virginia turn away patients after ransomware attack

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Two hospitals in Ohio and West Virginia have been forced to turn away emergency patients after their computer systems were crippled in a ransomware attack over the weekend. The hospitals — the Ohio Valley Medical Center in Wheeling, West Virginia, and East …

Bitcoin-stealing code inserted into popular GitHub-hosted JavaScript library

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

A hacker has successfully inserted bitcoin-stealing code into a popular JavaScript library used by millions including leading companies. The hack involved the insertion of code into Event-Stream, a JavaScript npm package for working with Node.js streaming data hosted on GitHub with the …

Bitcoin recovers slightly after price hits nearly two-year low

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin has plunged to its lowest level in nearly two years, before recovering somewhat today as cryptocurrency markets continue to bounce around. The price of bitcoin has continued to fall after reaching nearly $20,000 in December. But the latest bear run started …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Bitcoin price stabilizes as Bitcoin Cash war comes to an end

Bird launches platform for others to own their own e-scooter hire business

Uber fined $1.2M by two European countries over 2016 data breach

Amazon cloud service to mine medical records for better healthcare

Study finds half of phishing sites now use SSL protection to trick users

Hospitals in Ohio and West Virginia turn away patients after ransomware attack

Bitcoin-stealing code inserted into popular GitHub-hosted JavaScript library

Bitcoin recovers slightly after price hits nearly two-year low

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