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

Intel now facing 35 lawsuits over Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Intel Corp. is now facing 35 lawsuits either directly or indirectly related to the “Meltdown” and “Spectre” critical vulnerabilities in its central processing unit chips. Disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing by Intel on Friday, the largest number of lawsuits, 30 so …

Switzerland bucks the trend and issues guidelines supporting initial coin offerings

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Switzerland has bucked global trends on initial coin offerings by issuing guidelines to support the ICO market and boost new blockchain technologies instead of simply banning them. The new guidelines, issued by the country’s Financial Market Supervisory Authority, seek to clarify when entrepreneurs …

Bitcoin celebrates Chinese New Year by breaking through $10K again

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin’s slow bull run continued Thursday as the cryptocurrency broke though $10,000 in trading Thursday, its highest point since Jan. 31 and a reversal of a decline that saw it bottom out at $6,363.97 on Feb. 5. Why bitcoin is continuing to grow in value …

Was Coinbase hacked? Exchange blames Visa as customers overcharged for thousands

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Inc. is reported to have been making repeated unauthorized charges against customer bank accounts on the same day that IBM Corp.’s X-Force security team reported that hackers were targeting a cryptocurrency exchange. IBM said it was a two-tier attack that …

FedEx exposes confidential customer data via misconfigured AWS storage

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Global shipping giant FedEx Corp. is the latest participant in the hit online series “Let’s Misconfigure Our AWS Storage” after it was revealed today that a company it acquired in 2014 had left confidential customer data sitting on an S3 instance with …

Report finds politics now trumps profit as the biggest driver of malware attacks

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A new report on malware has found that there is a direct correlation between geopolitical events and malware spikes, meaning that politics, more than profit, is now the major driver behind hacking. The finding comes from researchers today at the Comodo Threat …

New TrickBot banking trojan variant is targeting cryptocurrency exchanges

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Prolific banking trojan TrickBot has taken on a new challenge, with a new variant detected now targeting cryptocurrency exchanges. The new version, detected by IBM Corp.’s X-Force security research team, follows the path of previous variants in using web injections to steal …

Do aliens like bitcoin? SETI researchers claim cryptomining hinders hunt for ET

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Do aliens like bitcoin? As the price of bitcoin has continued its bull run this week, cryptocurrencies have indeed been linked to aliens or, more specifically, our inability to find them. The bitcoin alien paradox, inspired by Enrico Fermi, comes from SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence …

Intel opens bug bounty program to all with payments of up to $250K

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Hot off the still ongoing drama surrounding the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities in its chips, Intel Corp. has decided to expand its bug bounty program to the public. The initial bug bounty program launched in March 2017 in conjunction with venture capital-funded …

Serious Skype vulnerability requires a ‘large code revision’ to fix

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A recently discovered serious vulnerability in Skype that could give an attacker system-level privileges won’t be patched anytime soon. That’s because Microsoft Corp. has indicated that the fix requires a “large code revision.” The vulnerability, discovered by security researcher Stefan Kanthak, allows a hacker to modify …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Intel now facing 35 lawsuits over Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities

Switzerland bucks the trend and issues guidelines supporting initial coin offerings

Bitcoin celebrates Chinese New Year by breaking through $10K again

Was Coinbase hacked? Exchange blames Visa as customers overcharged for thousands

Report finds politics now trumps profit as the biggest driver of malware attacks

New TrickBot banking trojan variant is targeting cryptocurrency exchanges

Do aliens like bitcoin? SETI researchers claim cryptomining hinders hunt for ET

Intel opens bug bounty program to all with payments of up to $250K

Serious Skype vulnerability requires a ‘large code revision’ to fix

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