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

Autodesk acquires construction productivity cloud software startup PlanGrid for $875 million

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Design software company Autodesk Inc. today said it plans to acquire San Francisco-based construction productivity cloud software startup PlanGrid for $875 million. Founded in 2011, PlanGrid provides cloud-based project management software that helps contractors, subcontractors and owners in commercial, heavy civil and …

Difficult-to-detect hacking campaign targets governments across the globe

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

A new report from Palo Alto Networks Inc.’s Unit 42 today detailed a new hacking campaign from the Sofacy Group that employs a series of weaponized documents to target government entities around the globe, including the U.S., Europe and the former Eastern …

Bitcoin plunges to 19-month low as crypto chaos spooks investors

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin has plunged to its lowest price since early May 2017 as the ongoing chaos in the Bitcoin Cash community continues to spook investors. Analysts point the finger for the price drop in several directions, including a recent U.S. Securities and Commission …

Make-A-Wish website cryptojacked with increasingly popular CoinImp script

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Proving that some hackers have no morals whatsoever, the website of the Make-A-Wish Foundation has been “cryptojacked” to install the increasingly popular cryptomining script. Discovered by Simon Kenin, a security researcher at Trustwave SpiderLabs, and publicized today, the hack involved unknown hackers accessing the …

Instagram deploys machine learning tools to target fake likes and follows

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc.-owned Instagram is deploying machine learning tools to crack down on inauthentic behavior including fake likes, follows and comments. “Recently, we’ve seen accounts use third-party apps to artificially grow their audience,” Instagram said in a statement today. “Every day people come to Instagram …

Thousands of dark web sites offline following hack of leading hosting provider

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Leading dark web hosting services provider Daniel’s Hosting has been hacked, taking about 6,500 sites offline. The free hosting service was targeted on Thursday in an apparent attack by hackers so gained root access via phpmyadmin and adminer to take control of …

SEC settles lawsuits with two companies that ran unregistered ICOs as market continues to decline

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Friday it has settled a lawsuit with two companies that undertook unregistered initial coin offerings in 2017 as the market for ICOs continues to decline. The cases related to unregistered ICOs from CarrierEQ Inc., doing …

Instagram suffers downtime after scrambling to fix password-revealing bug

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Instagram went down on Saturday morning after parent company Facebook Inc. was forced to fix a bug that exposed user passwords. The Information reported that Instagram informed affected users earlier in the week that their passwords may have been exposed to a security …

Acting attorney general linked to company that promoted a time travel cryptocurrency

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker has been linked to a company that among its various offerings was pitching a time travel cryptocurrency. Whitaker (pictured below), appointed to replaced Jeff Sessions by the Trump administration Nov. 7, sat on the advisory board …

Enterprise productivity software startup Airtable raises $100M on a $1.1B valuation

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Enterprise productivity software startup Airtable today said it has raised $100 million in new funding on a valuation of $1.1 billion to hire more people and expand into international markets. The Series C round was led by Thrive Capital, Benchmark and Coatue Management and …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Autodesk acquires construction productivity cloud software startup PlanGrid for $875 million

Difficult-to-detect hacking campaign targets governments across the globe

Bitcoin plunges to 19-month low as crypto chaos spooks investors

Make-A-Wish website cryptojacked with increasingly popular CoinImp script

Instagram deploys machine learning tools to target fake likes and follows

Thousands of dark web sites offline following hack of leading hosting provider

SEC settles lawsuits with two companies that ran unregistered ICOs as market continues to decline

Instagram suffers downtime after scrambling to fix password-revealing bug

Acting attorney general linked to company that promoted a time travel cryptocurrency

Enterprise productivity software startup Airtable raises $100M on a $1.1B valuation

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