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

Ukrainian police raid company for allegedly distributing NotPetya malware

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Police in Ukraine have raided a company alleged to be ground zero in the distribution of the recent NotPetya malware cyberattack. Local authorities early Wednesday local time said they seized computers from a company called Intellect Service that sells accounting software under the names …

Australia’s universal healthcare system hacked, details sold on the darknet

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A seller on the darknet, the part of the Internet accessible only through special software, is offering to sell the universal health care numbers of any Australian, according to reports published Tuesday. Medicare, a universal health care system that operates essentially as a …

DARPA proposes a GPS-like system for undersea drone navigation

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

When most people think of drones, they think of devices that fly through the sky, taking pictures or blowing up terrorists. But the next wave of drones will operate under the sea, where signals from a global positioning satellite do not penetrate. …

Study finds banks and other financial institutions score poorly on online security

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A new study has found that some of the largest U.S. banks and financial institutions score quite poorly when it comes to online security. The study, from the Online Trust Alliance, audited more than 1,000 websites and found that a staggering 65 of the top …

New Qualcomm technology allows for better fingerprint scanning

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Qualcomm Technologies Inc. is looking to extend its reach in smartphones with the announcement of a new fingerprint scanning technology. The new Qualcomm ultrasonic fingerprint scanners, revealed last week, eliminate the need for a dedicated standalone fingerprint scanner and instead facilitates scanning …

SEC sues man who ran fraudulent bitcoin and co-working business

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday filed criminal charges against a man alleged to have been running a dubious bitcoin trading business along with a related co-working space company. Renwick Haddow (pictured), described as a U.K. citizen living in New York, …

FAA is considering a remote identification system for drones

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Having failed in its effort to enforce drone pilot registration, the Federal Aircraft Administration is now looking at creating a remote identification system that would allow drones in the air to be identified from the ground. The FAA first attempted to force registration …

Kaspersky offers to release source code and testify over alleged Russian links

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The founder of security company Kaspersky Lab has offered to testify before Congress and provide the company’s source code to government officials in response to an FBI investigation and a proposal that would see the company banned from working with the U.S. …

It’s another initial coin offering record: Block.One raises $185M

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Another day, another record initial coin offering. Block.One, developer of the new blockchain platform EOS.IO, announced Saturday that it has raised $185 million through an initial offering of its cryptocurrency “tokens,” beating the previous record of $150 million raised by Bancor in mid-June. Based …

Shadow Brokers demands more money for new NSA exploit releases

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Notorious hacking group The Shadow Brokers is back in the news and absolutely not surprisingly for anyone who follows its exploits, it’s all about the money again. The group, which is perhaps now most famous for releasing the National Security Agency-linked Windows …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Ukrainian police raid company for allegedly distributing NotPetya malware

Australia’s universal healthcare system hacked, details sold on the darknet

DARPA proposes a GPS-like system for undersea drone navigation

Study finds banks and other financial institutions score poorly on online security

New Qualcomm technology allows for better fingerprint scanning

SEC sues man who ran fraudulent bitcoin and co-working business

FAA is considering a remote identification system for drones

Kaspersky offers to release source code and testify over alleged Russian links

It’s another initial coin offering record: Block.One raises $185M

Shadow Brokers demands more money for new NSA exploit releases

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