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

Mary Meeker: Healthcare technology is booming thanks to cloud computing and wearables

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner and longtime tech analyst Mary Meeker released her annual Internet Trends Report Wednesday, and more than anything else, she pointed to a transformation of health thanks to big data and cloud computing. The report, which is …

Brendan Eich’s Brave web browser raises $35M in ‘initial coin offering’

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Brave, the new web browser from former Mozilla Foundation Chief Executive Officer Brendan Eich, has broken at least one record as the company raised $35 million in an initial coin offering that sold out in 30 seconds, faster than any previous coin offering. …

Research finds hackers like to hack other hackers on the ‘dark web’

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Hackers like to hack other hackers. That bit of poetic justice is the main takeaway from new research published by security firm Trend Micro Inc. that studied the actions of hackers who operate on the dark web. The company set up a …

Cost of cybercrime set to hit $8 trillion by 2022 with billions of records hacked

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

The cost of cybercrime will rise to $8 billion over the next five years, with billions of hacked customer records finding their way online, according to a newly released research paper. The paper from Juniper Research estimates that 2.8 billion customer data records …

Printer cartridges freed as Supreme Court rules patent law doesn’t restrict resale

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

In a win for consumers and businesses alike, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that companies can’t use patent laws to prevent secondary uses of their products in a case that, not surprisingly, involved printer cartridges. In the case, Lexmark International Inc. …

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 …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Brendan Eich’s Brave web browser raises $35M in ‘initial coin offering’

Research finds hackers like to hack other hackers on the ‘dark web’

Cost of cybercrime set to hit $8 trillion by 2022 with billions of records hacked

Printer cartridges freed as Supreme Court rules patent law doesn’t restrict resale

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

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