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

Drone operators will be able to get instant approval to fly in restricted airspaces

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The Federal Aviation Administration will allow drone operators to apply for and gain instant approval to operate in restricted airspaces as part of its development of new Air Traffic Control and registration guidelines for unmanned aerial vehicles. The proposed authorization method, which is …

Russian man sentenced to five years in prison over Citadel malware role

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A Russian man who was involved in the distribution and maintenance of the Citadel malware that ran rampant in 2013 has been sentenced to five years in prison. Mark Vartanyan (pictured), also known as “Kolypto,” was arrested by Norway in October 2014 and served …

$31M stolen in hack that targeted initial coin offering companies

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Ethereum wallets linked to at least three companies that have raised funds through initial coin offerings have been hacked, with about 150,000 ETH tokens ($31 million) being stolen. The hack exploited a vulnerability in wallets provided by Parity Technologies Ltd. and used …

Apple launches a blog dedicated to sharing machine learning research

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Expanding on its efforts to engage with the academic and research communities, Apple Inc. has launched the “Apple Machine Learning Journal,” a blog dedicated to publishing scholarly research papers on the growing field of teaching computers to learn on their own. “Here, you …

Vulnerable systems could allow ships to be hacked at sea

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Nothing is sacred when it comes to potential targets for hackers. A newly identified security risk takes potential hacking quite literally out to sea in the form of ships. Detailed by a security researcher by the name of “x0rz” on Twitter, the configuration …

New Bluetooth standard supports mesh networking for the Internet of Things

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has announced a new standard for the wireless technology that will allow Internet of Things devices to talk to each other in a mesh network. Mesh networking is a network of connected devices where each node, in …

Mira Prism headset to deliver augmented reality to iPhone users for just $99

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Apple Inc. iPhone users are about to get their first augmented-reality headset, as a Los Angeles company announced Tuesday it plans to launch a product that costs just $99. The company goes by the name of Mira Labs Inc. and the product …

Google rolls out new security alerts for G Suite and App Scripts

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Google Inc. today rolled out a new security alert feature across its G Suite and App Scripts services following a widespread phishing attack that targeted users in May. The new alert feature aims to prevent a user accidentally click on a phishing link. …

FBI warns parents about privacy and safety risks of Internet-connected toys

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is warning that Internet-connected toys can present privacy and safety risks to both parents and children. In a newly published advisory, the FBI said Internet-connected toys typically contain sensors, microphones, cameras, data storage components, speech recognition and GPS …

Dow Jones is the latest company to expose customer records on a cloud server

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Dow Jones & Co. has followed in the footsteps of Verizon Communications Inc. by leaving private customer records exposed to the public on a cloud server. Similar to Verizon, the 2.2 million records were found publicly available on an unsecured Amazon Web Services …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Drone operators will be able to get instant approval to fly in restricted airspaces

Russian man sentenced to five years in prison over Citadel malware role

$31M stolen in hack that targeted initial coin offering companies

Apple launches a blog dedicated to sharing machine learning research

Vulnerable systems could allow ships to be hacked at sea

New Bluetooth standard supports mesh networking for the Internet of Things

Mira Prism headset to deliver augmented reality to iPhone users for just $99

Google rolls out new security alerts for G Suite and App Scripts

FBI warns parents about privacy and safety risks of Internet-connected toys

Dow Jones is the latest company to expose customer records on a cloud server

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