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

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 …

Pornhub deploys artificial intelligence platform to identify and tag porn stars

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

There’s an old, justified adage about how the porn industry leads the path to widespread technology adaptation. From VHS through to DVDs, online payments and even potentially widespread use of the internet itself, porn has spurred growth in many sectors. Now, one …

Failed mobile software maker Cyanogen turns to developing autonomous vehicle tech

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Cyanogen Inc., a company notorious for its failed attempt to bring to market an “Android killer” mobile operating system, has changed its name to Cyngn and shifted its business focus to self-driving car tech — because that’s in right now. Axios made the discovery, …

California set to allow driverless vehicles on its roads starting in 2018

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

California is set to revise its regulations on autonomous vehicles with proposed changes that will allow vehicles without drivers or anyone in them to operate on their roads starting next year. The California Department of Motor Vehicles published the proposed changes to …

High profits are driving an explosion in the ransomware market

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Despite growing awareness of the risks presented to users, ransomware continues to be a highly profitable endeavor for nefarious actors, according to new research that finds the market for ransomware is exploding. Researchers at endpoint security firm Carbon Black Inc. found that from …

Accenture left private data exposed to public on misconfigured AWS storage

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Global management consulting and professional services firm Accenture PLC is the latest in a growing line of companies that have exposed private data online by erroneously configuring an Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 storage bucket. The data exposure was first detected by security …

New malware targets ATMs running Windows 7 and Vista

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A new strain of malware that targets automated teller machines running Windows 7 and Windows Vista has been detected in the wild stealing account credentials and money from unsuspecting victims. Detailed by security researchers at Kaspersky, the ATMii malware, also known as Backdoor.Win32.ATMii, is …

Citing criminal activity, Russia bans access to cryptocurrency exchanges

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Russia is the latest on a growing list of nations that don’t like cryptocurrencies. The country has blocked access to cryptocurrency exchanges in a move that could result in an outright ban. The country’s central bank issued a decree Tuesday to block all …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

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

Akamai snaps up Nominum to beef up its DNS software security

Pornhub deploys artificial intelligence platform to identify and tag porn stars

Failed mobile software maker Cyanogen turns to developing autonomous vehicle tech

California set to allow driverless vehicles on its roads starting in 2018

High profits are driving an explosion in the ransomware market

Accenture left private data exposed to public on misconfigured AWS storage

New malware targets ATMs running Windows 7 and Vista

Citing criminal activity, Russia bans access to cryptocurrency exchanges

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