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

Android P beta launches with a range of new AI-powered features

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Google Inc.’s latest mobile operating system, Android P, was released in beta today with an upgrade that comes jam-packed with artificial intelligence features, part of a focus on AI across the company at the Google I/O conference today. Pitched as a way …

As Bill Gates and Warren Buffett trash it, bitcoin teases $10,000

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

The price of bitcoin teased $10,000 in trading Monday in what might be the start of a new bull run following a spate of both good and bad news surrounding the cryptocurrency. At the top of the list, Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates …

No longer the bridesmaid, Drupal is now favored for cryptomining attacks

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Drupal has always been the bridesmaid to WordPress, the bride of content management systems. Now, Drupal has finally become popular, but for the wrong reason: It has become the favorite CMS of cryptomining hackers. The latest range of attacks targeting Drupal, which …

Microsoft Pay support now allows users to pay invoices within Outlook

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Despite the lack of a viable mobile phone platform, Microsoft Corp. is doubling down on its efforts to grab a piece of the online payments market by providing Outlook support for Microsoft Pay, previously known as Microsoft Wallet. The service will allow …

Uber appoints former NTSB head after it finds software caused fatal crash

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Uber Technologies Inc. has hired the former head of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board to advise it on safety after an internal investigation found that a software fault caused the fatal crash involving a self-driving Uber vehicle in March. Christopher Hart …

Tennessee DDoS attack may have been motivated by retaliation or protest

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Russians? Chinese? Gun-averse liberals who hate Dixieland? All of those and other factors could be responsible for one of the weirdest cyberattacks of recent times after an election in Knox County, the main seat of government for Knoxville, Tennessee, was targeted by …

AT&T ‘accidentally’ blocks Cloudflare’s privacy-focused domain name service

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

AT&T Inc. is blaming an accident for a firmware update that blocked Cloudflare Inc.’s privacy-focused DNS service. The block, first reported by users on the DSL Reports user forum, saw AT&T users who had applied a “security” patch issued for AT&T’s Arris …

US Cyber Command elevated to higher status as NSA triples data collection

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

The United States has upped the seriousness it considers the threat of cybersecurity, elevating the U.S. Cyber Command to a “combatant command” on Friday. The change came at the same time it was revealed that the National Security Agency, which now shares the same …

‘Winnti Umbrella’ groups linked to years of Chinese state-sponsored hacking

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Hacks dating back nearly a decade that were previously thought to have originated from separate attack groups are linked to a Chinese government intelligence agency, according to a recently published report. The report, from the Threat Research & Analysis Team at ProtectWise Inc., links attacks …

Twitter advises its 336M users to change passwords following encryption failure

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Twitter Inc. is advising all of its 336 million users to change their passwords after the microblogging service uncovered a “hashing” bug that potentially exposed all user passwords,. There’s no evidence so far of either hacking or malicious actors stealing the data. …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Android P beta launches with a range of new AI-powered features

As Bill Gates and Warren Buffett trash it, bitcoin teases $10,000

No longer the bridesmaid, Drupal is now favored for cryptomining attacks

Microsoft Pay support now allows users to pay invoices within Outlook

Uber appoints former NTSB head after it finds software caused fatal crash

Tennessee DDoS attack may have been motivated by retaliation or protest

AT&T ‘accidentally’ blocks Cloudflare’s privacy-focused domain name service

US Cyber Command elevated to higher status as NSA triples data collection

‘Winnti Umbrella’ groups linked to years of Chinese state-sponsored hacking

Twitter advises its 336M users to change passwords following encryption failure

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