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

Credit card details stolen after Pizza Hut undercooks its website security

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Pizza Hut, the pizza restaurant division of Yum! Brands Inc., is the latest in a growing list of fast-food chains to be hacked, as the company admitted that credit card data was stolen from customers two weeks ago. The hack, which was …

Serious encryption flaw in Infineon chips exposes billions of devices to attack

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A newly discovered vulnerability in the code used by chips made by Infineon Technologies AG, used by a wide range of devices, opens the door to hackers, according to newly published research. Discovered by researchers at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic last week, the …

New IBM blockchain payments platform supports cross-border financial transactions

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp. has entered a new partnership that will see Big Blue offer a cross-border blockchain payments solution aimed at business and consumers. The new payments network, which will be formally announced at the Sibos conference in Toronto on Monday, involves the use of the …

OnePlus responds to privacy concerns with change in how it collects data

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Semipopular Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus has partially caved in to consumer pressure about its data gathering practice, which includes spying on user activities, by offering a more transparent opt-out process and dropping the collection of personally identifiable data. The drama surrounding OnePlus came …

Cryptomining hijacking goes mainstream, affecting up to 500M users

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

More and more sites are secretly hijacking the computer processing power of visitors to mine for cryotocurrency as a report over the weekend identified Politifact among the latest sites to be targeted. Overall, according to one ad blocking company, the process is …

To the moon: In a record-breaking run, Bitcoin surges toward $6,000

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The price of bitcoin went through the roof Thursday, surging past $5,000 for the first time and, sitting at just below $5,800 by late evening, heading toward a cool $6,000. Bitcoin’s price surge has been attributed to a number of possibilities, the …

Credit card details stolen in a second hack of Hyatt hotels

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Hyatt Hotels Corp. has proven that the adage “once bitten, twice shy” is inaccurate after revealing that its payment system was hacked and customer data such as credit card details were stolen. It was the latest significant hack to target the hotel chain …

Latest Equifax faux pas: serving customers malware-infected fake Flash plugins

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

U.S. consumer credit reporting agency Equifax Inc. is back in the news, once again for all the wrong reasons. The company was discovered to be serving malware to its customers in the form of spyware disguised as an Adobe Flash plugin, although …

Report finds financial cybercrime is running rampant on social media

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A new report on financial cybercrime has found that while financial institutions have embraced social media to engage customers, grow their business and promote offers and services, scammers are also flocking to the platforms to target potential victims. The “External Social And …

Akamai snaps up Nominum to beef up its DNS software security

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Akamai Technologies Inc. said Wednesday that it has acquired Nominum Inc., a Redwood City, California-based company that provides domain-name service software and applications for top telecom providers, for an undisclosed sum. Founded way back in 1999, Nominum offers an integrated suite of DNS-based applications …

1
…
810
811
812
813
814
…
1062

Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Credit card details stolen after Pizza Hut undercooks its website security

Serious encryption flaw in Infineon chips exposes billions of devices to attack

New IBM blockchain payments platform supports cross-border financial transactions

OnePlus responds to privacy concerns with change in how it collects data

Cryptomining hijacking goes mainstream, affecting up to 500M users

To the moon: In a record-breaking run, Bitcoin surges toward $6,000

Credit card details stolen in a second hack of Hyatt hotels

Latest Equifax faux pas: serving customers malware-infected fake Flash plugins

Akamai snaps up Nominum to beef up its DNS software security

LATEST FROM THECUBE

UPCOMING CUBE EVENTS

RECENT CUBE EVENTS

Supermicro Open Storage Summit 2026

Black Hat USA 2026

GraphTalk 2026

AMD Advancing AI 2026

RAISE Summit 2026

SIGN IN

Bio

Ethics statement

Contact us

Partner with us

Contact us

Guest inquiry