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

Toyota signs up for Microsoft’s new connected car tech licensing program

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. wants a bigger slice of the connected-car market, offering a new program that allows vehicle manufacturers to license the company’s technology in their vehicles. The first to take advantage of the new offering is Japanese auto giant Toyota Motor Corp., which has …

New WikiLeaks CIA document dump details Apple hacking programs

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A new release from WikiLeaks of Vault7 files has revealed that the Central Intelligence Agency had developed a range of tools to infect Apple products including the iPhone and MacBook line. The files, which cover the period of 2009 through to 2013, include …

LastPass issues patch for vulnerability that exposed user passwords

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Password security firm LastPass Inc. has issued patches for its Chrome and Firefox plugins after a security researcher at Google Inc. found vulnerabilities that could have allowed attackers to steal users’ passwords or execute malicious code on their computers. Discovered by Google’s Tavis Ormandy, the …

Arrested man allegedly scammed $100M from two big tech companies

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Latvian police have arrested a man on behalf of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for allegedly defrauding two unnamed U.S. tech firms of $100 million in an email scam. Evaldas Rimasauskas, 48, is alleged to have impersonated an Asian-based manufacturer and managed …

Hackers threaten to wipe iCloud accounts if Apple doesn’t pay a ransom

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Apple Inc. is allegedly being held ransom by a group of hackers who are threatening to wipe data from millions of Apple devices in two weeks if the company doesn’t pay them. According to Motherboard, the group, who goes by the name of “Turkish …

Node40 launches tool to help taxpayers report bitcoin profits and losses

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Blockchain hosting firm Node40 LLC has released a new product that allows Americans to report their bitcoin profits and losses to the Internal Revenue Service. Called Node40 Balance, the new service is said to set a “new standard in precision and simplicity” as it is able …

New Star Trek-themed attack goes where no ransomware has gone before

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A new Star Trek-themed malware variant has gone where no ransomware has gone before by demanding a ransom payment in Monero, an up-and-coming cryptocurrency that competes with bitcoin. The “Kirk” ransomware, first discovered by Avast Software s.r.o. malware researcher Jakub Kroustek, is being distributed …

Microsoft outage affects Xbox Live, Outlook.com, Skype, OneDrive and Windows Store users

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Microsoft account holders across the range of the tech giant’s services, including Xbox Live, Outlook.com, Skype, OneDrive, and Microsoft’s Windows Store, suffered an outage Tuesday that prevented them from signing into accounts for nearly two hours. The outage, the second in March, not …

South Korean mobile gaming giant Netmarble files for $2.4 billion IPO

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

South Korean mobile games developer Netmarble Games Corp. is going public as the company filed paperwork to raise 2.7 trillion won ($2.4 billion) in an initial public offering of shares. The company said it’s looking to sell 17 million shares at 121,000 …

Cisco discloses 300+ switches vulnerable to CIA hack, with no patch available

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

In a damaging public disclosure, Cisco Systems Inc. has admitted that more than 300 of the switches it sells contain a critical vulnerability that allows the Central Intelligence Agency to take full control of the devices, but there is currently no patch …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Toyota signs up for Microsoft’s new connected car tech licensing program

New WikiLeaks CIA document dump details Apple hacking programs

LastPass issues patch for vulnerability that exposed user passwords

Arrested man allegedly scammed $100M from two big tech companies

Hackers threaten to wipe iCloud accounts if Apple doesn’t pay a ransom

Node40 launches tool to help taxpayers report bitcoin profits and losses

New Star Trek-themed attack goes where no ransomware has gone before

Microsoft outage affects Xbox Live, Outlook.com, Skype, OneDrive and Windows Store users

South Korean mobile gaming giant Netmarble files for $2.4 billion IPO

Cisco discloses 300+ switches vulnerable to CIA hack, with no patch available

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