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

Robotic process automation startup UiPath raises $153M on $1.1B+ valuation

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Robotic process automation startup UiPath Inc. has raised a healthy $153 million in new funding, giving it a “unicorn” valuation topping $1.1 billion. The Series B round was led by Accel and included CapitalG, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Earlybird’s Digital East Fund, Credo Ventures …

Monster Memcached: Another new record attack detected

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

In what could be the most disturbing security trend of 2018, another new record distributed denial-of-service attack has been detected as hackers continue to exploit a technique that uses the Memcached memory caching system to amplify data volume. The new Memcached-based DDoS attack, detected by Arbor …

Pennsylvania the latest state to sue Uber for failing to disclose 2016 data breach

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Pennsylvania sued Uber Technologies Inc. today, becoming the latest government to take legal action over the ride-hailing giant’s coverup of a data breach that affected 57 million customer and contractors in 2016. The new suit, announced by Attorney General Josh Shapiro Monday, alleges that Uber …

Bitcoin theft now passé as criminals target crypto mining gear instead

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Stealing bitcoin appears to be passé in 2018. Now, thieves in two countries are stealing bitcoin mining equipment instead. In the largest known theft to date, thieves in Iceland stole 600 bitcoin mining rigs along with 100 power sources, 100 motherboards, 100 memory discs …

New Spectre vulnerability exploits software guard extensions in Intel chips

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Just when Intel Corp. was addressing the Spectre security vulnerabilities first revealed in January, researchers have spoiled the party by revealing a new, previously unknown variant. Dubbed SgxPectre, the vulnerability allows an attacker to undertake a so-called side-channel attack via Intel’s SGX secure …

Microsoft releases new patch for Spectre Type 2 vulnerability

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. today released a new patch for one of the Spectre central processing unit vulnerabilities and has announced plans to distribute further patches when they become available. The new patch is available via the Microsoft Update Catalog for those running Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and …

Equifax reveals 2.4M additional records stolen in 2017 hack

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Consumer credit reporting agency Equifax Inc. revealed Thursday that an additional 2.4 million people had their data stolen in their infamous 2017 hack — that is, on top of the 143 million consumer records it previously believed had been stolen. In a …

Overstock.com shares drop as SEC probes tZERO initial coin offering

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Shares in Overstock.com Inc. dropped as much as 10 percent Thursday after the company revealed that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was investigating its tZERO initial coin offering. The revelation, disclosed in an 8K filing, stated that the SEC had requested “certain …

Record-breaking GitHub DDoS attack: Here’s what enterprises need to know

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Days after security companies first detected a new form of distributed denial-of-service attack, GitHub has been targeted by the largest DDoS attack ever recorded. Detailed in an incident report, the attack occurred at 12:21 p.m. EST Wednesday and also saw an amplification …

VR data visualization startup Virtualitics raises $7M

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Virtual and augmented reality data visualization startup Virtualitics Inc. today said it has raised $7 million in new funding. Founded in 2016, Virtualitics offers a data visualization platform that combines artificial intelligence, big data and virtual reality to create interactive 3-D data models. The platform, accessible by both …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Robotic process automation startup UiPath raises $153M on $1.1B+ valuation

Monster Memcached: Another new record attack detected

Pennsylvania the latest state to sue Uber for failing to disclose 2016 data breach

Bitcoin theft now passé as criminals target crypto mining gear instead

New Spectre vulnerability exploits software guard extensions in Intel chips

Microsoft releases new patch for Spectre Type 2 vulnerability

Equifax reveals 2.4M additional records stolen in 2017 hack

Overstock.com shares drop as SEC probes tZERO initial coin offering

Record-breaking GitHub DDoS attack: Here’s what enterprises need to know

VR data visualization startup Virtualitics raises $7M

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