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

Ethereum founder wants crypto community to focus on making the world a better place

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin is not impressed with the obsession about wealth creation in the cryptocurrency community, taking to social media to say that coin and token founders should be focusing on trying to make the world a better place. In a series …

Two Romanians arrested for hacking Washington D.C. camera network

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Two Romanian nationals have been arrested over allegations that they were behind the hacking of the Washington D.C. closed-circuit television camera network that resulted in 70 percent of the network going offline in the week before the inauguration of President Donald Trump. The suspects, Mihai Alexandru …

South Korea cracks down on bitcoin trading with new regulations

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

South Korea has finally moved to crack down on bitcoin and cryptocurrency trading with a number of new rules that aim to restrict speculative trading. The country, one of the world’s largest in terms of bitcoin trading, first said that it would …

Lizard Squad founder facing jail time after pleading guilty to hacking charge

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Zachary Buchta, allegedly a founder of the infamous hacking group Lizard Squad, is facing two and a half years in jail after pleading guilty to hacking-related charges prior to Christmas. Twenty-year-old Buchta, from Maryland, was arrested in October 2016 along with another man, Bradley …

1M-plus customer records possibly compromised in Nissan Canada hack

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Up to 1.13 million customers of Nissan Canada have had their personal details breached after hackers managed to steal data from Nissan Canada Finance and related company Infiniti Financial Services Canada. The hack, which occurred Dec. 11, involved personal information including customer names, …

Infamous MMM Global scam operator Sergei Mavrodi launching his own cryptocurrency

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Sergei Mavrodi, founder of the infamous Ponzi scheme MMM Global, is back with a dubious new offering following a 20-plus-year history of scams: an Ethereum blockchain-based cryptocurrency. Called Mavro, the cryptocurrency is set to launch Dec. 29 and will be a replacement for …

Bitcoin teases $16,000 as investor surge causes Coinbase trading delays

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The price of bitcoin recovered in trading today as increased investor interest saw one exchange suffer trading delays once again. After a pre-Christmas slump that saw its price drop to as low as $11,000, investors returned to the market, driving the price …

300K usernames and passwords exposed on Ancestry.com RootsWeb server

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Ancestry.com LLC is the latest company to expose confidential user data to the broader internet. A security researcher discovered a file containing usernames and passwords sitting on a server on Rootsweb.com, an Ancestry-owned family history site. The data included 300,000 email addresses/username and …

Israel floats stock exchange ban for companies dealing in bitcoin

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Israel looks set to be the latest country to crack down on bitcoin. The country’s financial regulator said Monday it would move to ban companies based on bitcoin and other digital currencies from trading on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. The news …

Node.js startup NodeSource raises $17.5M in new funding

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Node.js startup NodeSource Inc. today said it has raised $17.5 million in new funding in a Series B round that included Silicon Valley Bank, Industry Ventures, Crosslink Capital and RRE Ventures. Founded in 2014, NodeSource builds products focused on Node.js security and performance for enterprise …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Ethereum founder wants crypto community to focus on making the world a better place

Two Romanians arrested for hacking Washington D.C. camera network

South Korea cracks down on bitcoin trading with new regulations

Lizard Squad founder facing jail time after pleading guilty to hacking charge

1M-plus customer records possibly compromised in Nissan Canada hack

Infamous MMM Global scam operator Sergei Mavrodi launching his own cryptocurrency

Bitcoin teases $16,000 as investor surge causes Coinbase trading delays

300K usernames and passwords exposed on Ancestry.com RootsWeb server

Israel floats stock exchange ban for companies dealing in bitcoin

Node.js startup NodeSource raises $17.5M in new funding

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