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

100 Zcash: Shadow Brokers announces the price of its exploit subscription service

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The notorious hacking group Shadow Brokers have revealed more details on its new exploit as a service offering, and for both black-hat and white-hat hackers, access to the trove of exploits won’t come cheap. The service, simply called “TheShadowBrokers Monthly Dump Service,” …

‘Judy’ malware infects up to 36.5M Android devices

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A new form of malware dubbed “Judy” is believed to have infected up to 36.5 million Android device users, according to research published last week. Discovered by Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Judy was found to be bundled with 41 apps in the Google …

Pacemakers found to be seriously vulnerable to hacking

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Pacemakers may save lives but they are also highly vulnerable to hacking, at least according to a report from a security firm published last week. Security research firm WhiteScope LLC made the claim after studying “implantable cardiac devices,” physician programmers and home …

Proposed drone law would allow state and local governments to make their own regulations

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Hot on the heels of a court ruling that struck down the Federal Aviation Administration’s ability to force owners of noncommercial drones to register them, a newly proposed law would give state and local governments the ability to create their own drone regulations. The Drone …

Proposed bill would allow victims to legally hack those who hack them

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A revision to a controversial proposed bill that would allow victims of hacking to legally hack their hackers back was tabled Friday by Rep. Tom Graves (R-Ga.). The proposed law, the Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act, would allow victims of a cyberattack to access the computer …

Microsoft sues Chinese company over Xbox game currency theft

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. has filed a lawsuit alleging a Chinese company illegally accessed Xbox accounts to purchase game currencies using the credit card details of the victims. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court Northern District of California and first discovered by Bleeping …

Apple Watch designer debuts an insanely expensive and ostentatious … hourglass

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Marc Newson, the Apple Inc. designer who along with Jony Ive gave the world the Apple Watch, has turned to a new form of timekeeping — in this case, an insanely expensive and ostentatious hourglass. The “Marc Newson Hourglass For HODINKEE” is …

Media player users urged to update software to stop subtitle hacking vulnerability

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Users of popular media players such as Kodi, VLC and Popcorn Time are being urgently warned to update their software after it was discovered that hackers could embed hidden computer viruses in the subtitles used by the services. Discovered by security firm Check …

Judge orders Uber to hand over Otto due-diligence report to Waymo

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The judge presiding over the Waymo Inc. lawsuit alleging that Uber Technologies Inc. stole its self-driving car technology has delivered another blow to the ride-hailing giant. The ruling says Uber must hand over an unredacted version of a due-diligence report it prepared …

Samba patches bug that allows hackers to upload malicious files

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The administrators behind the open-source Samba software platform have issued an emergency patch for a security hole that potentially could allow hackers to upload malicious files to vulnerable servers running the software. The vulnerability – CVE-2017-7494 – affects versions 3.5 and onwards of the software, …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

100 Zcash: Shadow Brokers announces the price of its exploit subscription service

‘Judy’ malware infects up to 36.5M Android devices

Pacemakers found to be seriously vulnerable to hacking

Proposed drone law would allow state and local governments to make their own regulations

Proposed bill would allow victims to legally hack those who hack them

Microsoft sues Chinese company over Xbox game currency theft

Apple Watch designer debuts an insanely expensive and ostentatious … hourglass

Media player users urged to update software to stop subtitle hacking vulnerability

Judge orders Uber to hand over Otto due-diligence report to Waymo

Samba patches bug that allows hackers to upload malicious files

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