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

Three Chinese nationals indicted over alleged state-sponsored hacking

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Three Chinese nationals have been indited by the U.S. Department of Justice on allegations that they were behind the hacking of Moody’s Corp., Siemens AG and Trimble Inc. between 2011 and the middle of this year. The indictment names Wu Yingzhuo, Dong Hao and Xia …

UK law would require drone users to pass safety awareness tests

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The United Kingdom is set to be the latest country to crack down on the use of drones as it published draft laws that would require some drone users to pass safety awareness tests, among other things. The proposed legislation, aimed at preventing …

Hacking group injects porn and fake news into Islamic State websites

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A clever group of hackers in Iraq is taking the good fight to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria by inserting fake news and pornography into web pages controlled by the group. Going by the name of Daeshgram, which is a play on …

Bitcoin surges through $9,000 as report claims up to 23% of bitcoin may be permanently lost

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The price of bitcoin surged past $9,000 for the first time on Sunday for a new record high as a new report claimed that as many as 23 percent of all bitcoin may be permanently lost, creating further scarcity in a market with …

Report: FBI failed to warn targets of Russian-linked hacking group

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The Federal Bureau of Investigation knew the Russian-linked Fancy Bear hacking group was targeting U.S. government officials for at least a year and failed to notify all but a handful of the targets, according to a report from the Associated Press. In what …

Email addresses and passwords stolen in hack of image-sharing site Imgur

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Popular image-sharing site Imgur Inc. has disclosed that it was hacked back in 2014, with the details of 1.7 million users stolen. The hack was first detected by Troy Hunt of data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned, who had the stolen data sent …

Elon Musk warns there’s only a small chance artificial intelligence won’t kill us all

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Elon Musk is back on the artificial intelligence scaremongering bandwagon, saying in a recent talk that AI is probably going to kill us all. The Tesla Inc. chief executive made the comments talking to employees at his neurotechnology company Neuralink Inc., a startup developing “high bandwidth and safe brain-machine interfaces.” …

Uber faces multiple investigations as former CEO is linked to hacking cover-up

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Uber Technology Inc.’s woes continue to go from bad to worse as authorities in four countries launched probes into Uber’s hacking and subsequent cover-up of a serious hacking last year of 57 million customer records. Moreover, there are new claims that former Chief …

Intel releases patch for serious vulnerabilities found in Core processors

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Intel Corp. has issued a patch to fix a number of serious security vulnerabilities discovered in its Management Engine, Server Platform Services and Trusted Execution Engine featured on a range of its chips. The vulnerabilities, found in Intel-based computers, including laptops and …

We’ll never legalize bitcoin, says Russian minister

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

In yet another backflip worthy of the Moscow Circus, a Russian minister has said that the country will never legalize bitcoin, just seven months after another government minister said it was considering making it legal. Minister of Communications and Mass Media Nikolai Nikiforov made the statement …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Three Chinese nationals indicted over alleged state-sponsored hacking

UK law would require drone users to pass safety awareness tests

Hacking group injects porn and fake news into Islamic State websites

Bitcoin surges through $9,000 as report claims up to 23% of bitcoin may be permanently lost

Report: FBI failed to warn targets of Russian-linked hacking group

Elon Musk warns there’s only a small chance artificial intelligence won’t kill us all

Uber faces multiple investigations as former CEO is linked to hacking cover-up

Intel releases patch for serious vulnerabilities found in Core processors

We’ll never legalize bitcoin, says Russian minister

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