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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

Apple has acquired sleep tracker startup Beddit

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Apple Inc. wants a slice of bedroom action. The iPhone maker has acquired Beddit.com Oy, a startup that makes a sleep sensor and accompanying iPhone app. Founded in 2007 and based in Finland, Beddit’s Sleep Tracker allows users to measure how long they …

Microsoft patches serious security flaw in antimalware software

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. has patched a security vulnerability described as “worst Windows remote code exec in recent memory” that potentially allowed malicious actors to install malware via Microsoft’s anti-malware software. Those tools, of course, are meant to prevent malware being installed on the market-leading …

Florida amends money laundering laws to cover bitcoin

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Men in Florida may get up to all sorts of strange things – just check out “Florida Man” – but money laundering using bitcoin can no longer be included on the list with the passage of laws preventing its use in criminal …

Fatboy ransomware adjusts demands based on where a victim lives

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A new ransomware-as-a-service product called “Fatboy” discovered on Russian-language dark web forums is offering a new kind of demand that adjusts the ransom based on where a victim lives. Fatboy automatically adjusts ransom demands based on the victim’s location by using Big Mac Index, an …

Intel chip vulnerability found to be far worse than thought

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A security vulnerability in Intel Corp. chips first disclosed last week looks far worse than initially thought, as hackers can hijack Intel processors without even needing a password. The vulnerability, which affects all Intel chips manufactured since 2008, from those code-named Nahalem to …

Hundreds of Android apps are tracking you with ultrasonic beacons

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

New research has discovered the rapid spread among Android apps of a recent form of ad tracking that monitors what users are listening to using hidden audio signals. The ad tracking system, known as ultrasound cross-device tracking, or uXDT for short, involves advertisers embedding high-frequency …

Unpatched WordPress vulnerability allows hackers to reset admin passwords

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A newly discovered, unpatched vulnerability in all versions of WordPress could allow hackers to reset targeted admin passwords, according to newly published research. The vulnerability (CVE-2017-8295), discovered by Polish researcher Dawid Golunski, is related to WordPress using a variable named “SERVER_NAME” to obtain the …

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