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

Survey finds enterprises are overlooking domain name server security

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A new survey has found that domain name server security is being overlooked by many enterprises, leaving them wide open to attack. The survey, commissioned by Infoblox Inc. and undertaken by Dimensional Research, polled 1,000 security and information technology professionals and found that …

Cloudflare bans websites running cryptocurrency mining scripts

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc. has banned sites that use JavaScript code to hijack visitors for the purpose of mining cryptocurrencies, according to a report published Wednesday. TorrentFreak claimed that Cloudflare, which is “often criticized for not being harsh enough on pirate sites” is …

HYPR raises $8M to expand its decentralized authentication platform

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

HYPR Corp. has raised $8 million in a Series A round in its bid to rid the world of all these mass data breaches. Founded in 2014, HYPR offers an enterprise-focused decentralized authentication platform that ensures that personal credentials remain safe on individual devices. …

Samsung embraces Windows Mixed Reality with the new HMD Odyssey headset

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. unveiled a new Windows-powered virtual and augmented reality headset at a Microsoft Corp. event Tuesday that’s said to deliver the highest-resolution display to take “consumers to entirely new virtual limits.” Called the Samsung HMD Odyssey, the headset, claimed to be the “most …

Microsoft saves AltspaceVR from virtual reality death with real-world acquisition

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. has acquired virtual reality social platform startup AltspaceVR Inc., the companies announced today The price of the deal was not disclosed, but it’s likely to have come at a discount on the $15.7 million AltspaceVR had previously raised, given the company had …

Largest data breach ever: Turns out 3B Yahoo accounts were compromised

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Verizon Communications Inc. has disclosed that the hack of Yahoo in August 2013 did not involve the compromise of 1 billion accounts as reported in December. Instead, it was all 3 billion Yahoo accounts, making it the largest data breach in history. The data stolen …

Etherparty initial coin offering website hacked

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The website for Etherparty, an initial coin offering selling tokens for a blockchain-based smart contract tool, has been hacked, as the address for sending funds to buy tokens was changed to one controlled by the hackers. The hack took place on the first …

Google issues warning on Dnsmasq vulnerabilities in Android, Linux and Kubernetes

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Researchers at Google LLC have issued a warning over seven serious flaws in Dnsmasq, a Domain Name System forwarder and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol server that is installed with Linux distributions, Android and Google’s Kubernetes container software. The longstanding flaws include three remote code execution vulnerabilities, …

Report: Ola raises $2B to take the good fight to Uber in India

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Indian ride-hailing firm Ola has raised $2 billion in a round led by SoftBank Group Corp. and Tencent Holdings Ltd., with an aim to expand its operations to beat back U.S. rival Uber Technologies Inc. The round included RNT Capital Advisors and a …

IoT-focused cybersecurity startup ForeScout files for initial public offering

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

“Internet of things”-focused cybersecurity firm ForeScout Inc. is going public. The company announced Monday that it had filed its paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering. The number of shares to be offered in the IPO and their price …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Survey finds enterprises are overlooking domain name server security

Cloudflare bans websites running cryptocurrency mining scripts

HYPR raises $8M to expand its decentralized authentication platform

Samsung embraces Windows Mixed Reality with the new HMD Odyssey headset

Microsoft saves AltspaceVR from virtual reality death with real-world acquisition

Largest data breach ever: Turns out 3B Yahoo accounts were compromised

Etherparty initial coin offering website hacked

Google issues warning on Dnsmasq vulnerabilities in Android, Linux and Kubernetes

Report: Ola raises $2B to take the good fight to Uber in India

IoT-focused cybersecurity startup ForeScout files for initial public offering

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