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

Waymo deploys fully driverless vehicles in Arizona ride-hailing trial

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Waymo, the self-driving car division of Google LLC parent company Alphabet Inc., today announced that it has started testing ride-hailing services with autonomous vehicles that don’t have a safety driver behind the wheel — the first time this type of service has …

Snap’s shares plunge after it reports slowing user and revenue growth

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Updated with Tencent investment and Wednesday share price Shares of Snap Inc. plunged in after-hours trading Tuesday after the company behind the Snapchat messaging app reported user growth and revenue below what market analysts had forecast. Snap reported third-quarter revenue of $207.9 million, …

Tenable signs cybersecurity deal with Siemens for critical infrastructure protection

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Network security company Tenable Inc. today said it has signed a strategic partnership with Siemens AG to assist energy, utilities and oil and gas companies defend against cyberattacks. The deal will see the launch of “Industrial Security” from Tenable, which Siemens will deliver as a service …

Not so quiet: Bjork embraces cryptocurrencies and blockchain with new album release

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Bjork is the latest to jump on the cryptocurrency bandwagon. The famous Icelandic singer announced Friday that fans can purchase her new album using cryptocurrencies and that everyone who does will be rewarded with an obscure cryptocurrency in return. Bjork (pictured) is accepting payments …

New form of Marcher Android malware delivers a hat-trick of malicious actions

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A new form of the Marcher Android malware has been discovered in the wild, delivering a hat-trick of malicious actions in the form of phishing, credit card data theft and, to top it off, a banking trojan virus. First spotted Friday by researchers at …

New version of Tor promises to return anonymity to browsing services

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The Tor Project, the group behind the anonymous Tor browser and related services, has announced that it’s working on a new, more secure version of the technology that will make the anonymous browsing promised by the technology truly anonymous again. Although Tor is …

Anime streaming site Crunchyroll hijacked to serve malicious downloads

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Visitors to popular anime streaming site Crunchyroll received more than the pleasure of accessing Japanese cartoons over the weekend after the domain name service for the site was hacked to serve up malicious downloads as well. The attack, which occurred on Saturday, …

1M+ people get tricked into downloading fake WhatsApp messaging app

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

More than a million people are believed to have downloaded a malicious, fake version of Facebook Inc.’s WhatsApp messaging app from the Google Play store. First spotted by users on Reddit Friday, the app, dubbed “Update WhatsApp Messenger” was listed as coming from …

Bitcoin heads to Mars as Amazon rumors deliver another new record high price

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin fans are fond of claiming that the price of the cryptocurrency is heading to the moon, but it may now be halfway to Mars. The price of bitcoin broke yet another new record in trading Thursday thanks to rumors that Amazon.com …

Ransomware-as-a-service to drive malware growth in 2018

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Ransomware-as-a-service will see the insidious malware spread rapidly beyond personal computers in the year ahead, according to the new report out Thursday from Sophos Group plc. The Sophos 2018 Malware Forecast looked at the direction malware took in 2017 to make its predictions …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Waymo deploys fully driverless vehicles in Arizona ride-hailing trial

Snap’s shares plunge after it reports slowing user and revenue growth

Tenable signs cybersecurity deal with Siemens for critical infrastructure protection

Not so quiet: Bjork embraces cryptocurrencies and blockchain with new album release

New form of Marcher Android malware delivers a hat-trick of malicious actions

New version of Tor promises to return anonymity to browsing services

Anime streaming site Crunchyroll hijacked to serve malicious downloads

1M+ people get tricked into downloading fake WhatsApp messaging app

Bitcoin heads to Mars as Amazon rumors deliver another new record high price

Ransomware-as-a-service to drive malware growth in 2018

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