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

Bad bots are eating the internet, now accounting for 21.8% of all website traffic

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Bad bots are eating the internet, accounting for 21.8 percent of all website traffic in 2017, according to a report released today by Distil Networks Inc. The “Bad Bot Report 2018: The Year Bad Bots Went Mainstream” analyzed hundreds of billions of bad bot requests …

New BIMI email standard offers safe company logos and phishing protection

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

When most people think of email, it’s rarely about something that is new or innovative. A new proposed email standard supported by some of the biggest names online could change that, at least for marketing and security purposes. The Brand Indicators for Message …

iOS QR code vulnerability allows users to be directed to malicious websites

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

A newly discovered vulnerability in the QR code scanning feature in the iPhone Camera app in Apple Inc.’s iOS 11 software could result in users being taken to malicious websites. The vulnerability, found by Infosec, relates to a parsing error that allows an attacker to …

Twitter bans most advertising related to cryptocurrencies

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Twitter Inc. has joined Facebook Inc. and Google LLC in banning advertising relating to cryptocurrencies, though with some exceptions. Today’s move by Twitter, first reported March 18, will see initial coin offerings and token sales completely banned while cryptocurrency exchanges and wallet …

Your taxpayer dollars at work: Students use financial aid to buy cryptocurrencies

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Just over 20 percent of all U.S. students are using federal student aid funds to buy cryptocurrency, a new survey has found. The number comes from a poll undertaken by Pollfish on behalf of the Student Loan Report, a website for student loan …

Uber sells Southeast Asia business to Grab in return for a 27.5% stake

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

The long-rumored takeover of Uber Technologies Inc.’s Southeast Asian business by Grab Taxi Pte. Ltd. is official as the two companies announced the deal Monday morning Singapore time. Under the deal, Grab will acquire all of Uber’s operations in the region, including food delivery service …

UK launches task force to consider benefits and risks of cryptocurrencies

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

The U.K. government has turned its attention to cryptocurrencies in a process that seems likely to put pressure on the fledgling market. The cryptocurrency task force, announced by U.K. Finance Minister Philip Hammond Thursday, is said to have been established to help the country …

Symantec report finds cryptojacking surged 8,500% in the fourth quarter

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

A new report from Symantec Corp. has confirmed what was already anecdotally well-known: Cryptojacking, the process of hijacking computers to mine cryptocurrency, surged in the last quarter of 2017 as the price of bitcoin shot up. The report found that cryptojacking attacks made up 24 …

Atlanta is offline as ransomware attack cripples city computer network

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Atlanta is the latest victim of a broad-scale ransomware attack that knocked out computer networks across the city. The attack was described in a press conference by Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms as “outages in various internal and external customer facing applications,” including payment systems …

Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey predicts bitcoin will be sole global currency in 10 years

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY8 YEARS AGO

Twitter Inc. and Square Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey has long been known as a cryptocurrency fanboy, but in an interview with The Times of London he said bitcoin will be the sole global currency within 10 years. “The world ultimately …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Bad bots are eating the internet, now accounting for 21.8% of all website traffic

New BIMI email standard offers safe company logos and phishing protection

iOS QR code vulnerability allows users to be directed to malicious websites

Twitter bans most advertising related to cryptocurrencies

Your taxpayer dollars at work: Students use financial aid to buy cryptocurrencies

Uber sells Southeast Asia business to Grab in return for a 27.5% stake

UK launches task force to consider benefits and risks of cryptocurrencies

Symantec report finds cryptojacking surged 8,500% in the fourth quarter

Atlanta is offline as ransomware attack cripples city computer network

Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey predicts bitcoin will be sole global currency in 10 years

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