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

New Shodan search service tracks down malware command-and-control servers

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Internet of Things search engine provider Shodan and threat intelligence firm Recorded Future Inc. have teamed up to produce a new tool that allows security vendors, companies and independent researchers to identify devices that act as botnet command-and-control servers. Called Malware Hunter, the …

Fuze patches vulnerability that exposed private recordings to anyone

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Cloud-based unified communications platform startup Fuze Inc. has been forced to patch a vulnerability that exposed recordings of private meetings to anyone. The vulnerability, discovered by security firm Rapid7 Inc., was blamed on the way Fuze provided sharing links for private recordings, …

About.com is no more, as the website rebrands as Dotdash

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Old school knowledge website About.com is no more. The company, which to the surprise of many was still operating, rebranded itself today as “Dotdash” and launched a range of six new supporting subsites. Founded in 1996 as The Mining Company before becoming About.com …

Geospatial analytics startup Orbital Insight raises $50M

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Geospatial analytics startup Orbital Insight Inc. today said it has raised $50 million in a later-stage round led by Sequoia Capital. Founded in 2015 by former Google Inc. Executive James Crawford, Orbital Insight offers a big-data platform that delivers large-scale analysis of satellite …

Investor interest and demand from Japan drives bitcoin to new record high

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The price of bitcoin broke through $1,400 in trading Monday as renewed investor interest and growing demand from Japan drove the price of the cryptocurrency to a new record high. At its peak, bitcoin hit $1,426.54, up from its most recent peak of $1290.56 …

TrickBot banking virus is now targeting niche financial institutions

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A trojan virus that has previously targeted banks is now expanding its reach to niche financial institutions, according to newly published research. The team at IBM Corp.’s X-Force security research team found in a recent analysis of the TrickBot malware that campaigns using the …

Apple may announce Siri-powered Amazon Echo competitor in June

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Apple Inc. might be about to join the smart home assistant market with a report published Monday suggesting that it could announce a product to rival Amazon.com Inc.’s Echo as soon as June. The news that Apple is moving close to releasing an …

Intel issues patch for serious vulnerability in chips dating back to 2008

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Intel Corp. has issued a patch for a security vulnerability that allowed remote code execution in all of its chips manufactured from 2008 on. The vulnerability in its chips from those code-named Nahalem to today’s Kaby Lake, stems from a flaw in Intel …

Woman in Brazil rescued after kidnappers demanded bitcoin ransom payment

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The 32-year-old wife of a Brazilian “bitcoin businessman” has been rescued by local police after she was grabbed by kidnappers who demanded a ransom be paid in bitcoin. According to local reports (link in Portuguese), the woman was kidnapped Wednesday in the Brazilian capital of …

Report reveals Facebook document that could help advertisers target insecure kids

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

An internal document confirmed as being real by Facebook Inc. is alleged to show that the social networking giant is exploiting young people as young as 14 in Australia by allowing advertisers to target them when they are at their most vulnerable. …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

New Shodan search service tracks down malware command-and-control servers

Fuze patches vulnerability that exposed private recordings to anyone

About.com is no more, as the website rebrands as Dotdash

Geospatial analytics startup Orbital Insight raises $50M

Investor interest and demand from Japan drives bitcoin to new record high

TrickBot banking virus is now targeting niche financial institutions

Apple may announce Siri-powered Amazon Echo competitor in June

Intel issues patch for serious vulnerability in chips dating back to 2008

Woman in Brazil rescued after kidnappers demanded bitcoin ransom payment

Report reveals Facebook document that could help advertisers target insecure kids

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