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

Massive increase in illicit cryptomining driven by leaked NSA exploit

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Confirming a well-documented trend this year, a new report from the Cyber Threat Alliance finds that illicit cryptocurrency mining has surged this year. The report, released today, analyzed customer data from alliance members and found that compared with 2017, illicit cryptomining, the process whereby …

Google Home Mini tops smart home speaker sales as market continues to grow

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Google LLC now has the best-selling smart home speaker on the market as its Google Home Mini topped sales charts in the second quarter, according to new stats from Strategy Analytics. Following a trend first indicated in the first quarter, Amazon.com Inc.’s …

Magecart group hacks Newegg and steals credit card data

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Online electronics retailer Newegg Inc. is the latest victim of an attack by the Magecart group, which stole credit card data used for customer payments for more than a month through Tuesday. Detailed by security firm RiskIQ Inc., the hack started Aug. …

Cloudflare teams up with US Signal for new denial-of-service protection offering

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Leading content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc. today announced a new denial-of-service protection service in conjunction with information technology solutions provider US Signal Co. LLC. Claimed to deliver a powerful DDoS mitigation for network, transport and application layers, the service uses Cloudflare’s …

Data stolen in hack of US Department of State email server

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

The Department of State is the latest U.S. government agency to be hacked, with data stolen from one of its email servers. First reported by Politico Monday, the hack was reported to employees by the department in an email Sept. 7 that stated …

New York AG report finds cryptocurrency exchanges are vulnerable to manipulation

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

A report released today by the New York Attorney General’s office has found that cryptocurrency exchanges are vulnerable to market manipulation. The Virtual Markets Integrity Report tabled the findings of an investigation launched in April based on data collected from major cryptocurrency exchanges on …

As the Tezos blockchain goes live, Bitfinex adds support for Tezzie token

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Troubled blockchain startup Tezos has finally gone live, receiving an immediate boost for its token with support from leading cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex. Tezos raised $233 million in an initial coin offering in July 2017 to support the development of “a self-amending crypto-ledger” offering a …

Webpage design code embedded in websites can crash iOS and macOS devices

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

A security researcher has published a proof-of-concept attack that can crash an Apple Inc. iOS or macOS device using nothing more than 15 lines of code embedded in a webpage. Published by Sabri Haddouche, a security researcher at Wire on GitHub, the …

Peekaboo vulnerability exposes hundreds of thousands of security cameras to hacking

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

A new vulnerability discovered in firmware from NUUO Inc. allows malicious actors to view and tamper with video surveillance recordings, according to researchers from security firm Tenable Inc. Dubbed “Peekaboo,” the “zero day” or heretofore undiscovered vulnerability affects firmware versions older than 3.9.0. It …

Report: Amazon planning to release new Alexa devices, including a microwave

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Amazon.com Inc. is doubling down again on its Alexa-everywhere strategy, according to a report today that the e-commerce giant is planning to release a range of new Alexa-enabled devices — even an Alexa-powered microwave oven. CNBC, quoting an “internal document describing the …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Massive increase in illicit cryptomining driven by leaked NSA exploit

Google Home Mini tops smart home speaker sales as market continues to grow

Magecart group hacks Newegg and steals credit card data

Data stolen in hack of US Department of State email server

New York AG report finds cryptocurrency exchanges are vulnerable to manipulation

As the Tezos blockchain goes live, Bitfinex adds support for Tezzie token

Webpage design code embedded in websites can crash iOS and macOS devices

Peekaboo vulnerability exposes hundreds of thousands of security cameras to hacking

Report: Amazon planning to release new Alexa devices, including a microwave

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