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

Ticketmaster UK confirms customer data stolen via hack it ignored in April

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

The U.K. division of ticketing giant Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. has been hacked and customer data stolen, but even worse is the revelation that it was warned of the security issue in April but ignored it. Ticketmaster UK first confessed to the hack …

Autonomous security operations center platform startup JASK raises $25M

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Autonomous Security Operations Center platform startup JASK Inc. has raised $25 million in new funding to allow it to continue developing its platform, hire more people and expand global sales channels. The Series B round was led by Kleiner Perkins and included Battery …

Japanese messaging giant LINE to launch its own cryptocurrency exchange

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Japanese messaging giant LINE Corp. is the latest to jump on the cryptocurrency bandwagon, announcing today that it plans to launch a cryptocurrency exchange in July. Called BITBOX, the exchange will offer more than “30 highly demanded cryptocurrencies” for users with support …

$4B EOS blockchain in chaos as community rebels against arbitration decision

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

The EOS blockchain, the “operating system” platform for which a record $4 billion was raised by parent company Block.One in an initial coin offering in May, is in trouble with community members over an arbitration decision. The drama relating to the EOS blockchain, …

Marketing firm exposes 340M records via misconfigured cloud storage

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

In what is likely the largest cloud misconfiguration data exposure to date, a little-known Florida marketing firm has exposed 340 million records online to all and sundry. The exposure by Exactis, discovered by security researcher Vinny Troia, included 2 terabytes of data relating …

Feds arrest 35 dark web vendors following bitcoin laundering operation

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

U.S. authorities have arrested 35 dark web sellers following an operation that traced bitcoin laundering activities back to sellers involved in illicit transactions. The operation was led by the U.S. Department of Justice in conjunction with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland …

Despite critiques, Google pushes ahead with public testing of Duplex talking AI

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Google LLC is pushing ahead with the roll out of its human voicelike Duplex technology despite the moral indignation it received when it was first demonstrated. The technology, for those who missed the first public demonstration at Google’s I/O developer conference in May, delivers next-generation conversational …

Facebook formally disbands its little-known drone development division

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc. has formally disbanded its little-known drone development division, a year after anything was last heard about it. The program, announced back in 2014, was intended by Facebook to bring the internet to the “billions of people across the globe who …

Hotel guest information stolen from booking solutions provider FastBooking

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Less than a day after a new report found that the hospitality industry is now a favorite target of hackers, FastBooking SAS, a cloud e-marketing and booking solutions provider for hotels, is the latest company to be compromised. The hack, which took …

Facebook backflips on cryptocurrency ban, will now allow some advertising

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

In a backflip worthy of an Olympic medal, Facebook Inc. today rescinded its blanket ban on all things crypto, though various terms and conditions will now apply. Facebook banned all advertising related to cryptocurrencies, including anything to do with bitcoin and initial coin …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Ticketmaster UK confirms customer data stolen via hack it ignored in April

Autonomous security operations center platform startup JASK raises $25M

Japanese messaging giant LINE to launch its own cryptocurrency exchange

$4B EOS blockchain in chaos as community rebels against arbitration decision

Feds arrest 35 dark web vendors following bitcoin laundering operation

Despite critiques, Google pushes ahead with public testing of Duplex talking AI

Facebook formally disbands its little-known drone development division

Hotel guest information stolen from booking solutions provider FastBooking

Facebook backflips on cryptocurrency ban, will now allow some advertising

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