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

Man sentenced to jail time following drone crash that injured two people

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A Seattle man has been sentenced to 30 days in jail after his drone crashed and injured two people. Paul M. Skinner, 38, was operating the drone during the 2015 Seattle Pride Parade when he lost control of the device. He was subsequently …

Data on Yelp, 4chan, bitcoin sites and more exposed in Cloudbleed breach, but experts urge calm

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Even the partial list of sites affected by Cloudbleed, the monumental security failure by content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc. that exposed sensitive information including passwords, cookies and tokens used to authenticate users, includes hundreds of popular sites. Published by a user …

Drones are now being used to speed up insurance claims

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Over the past few years non-military drones have been deployed for an increasing number of uses, delivering everything from medical supplies to 7-Eleven Slurpees. Now, they’re going to deliver … insurance assessments. Australian-owned global insurance company QBE Insurance Group Ltd. is now using drones to better …

Report: SoftBank could invest up to $4B in co-working firm WeWork

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Co-working firm WeWork Inc. is negotiating an investment from SoftBank that could be as high as $4 billion, according to a report published Sunday by CNBC. The deal is said to involve an initial investment of $2 billion followed by a secondary round …

Samsung announces new Gear VR headset with a motion-sensitive controller

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. unveiled a new Gear VR headset with a controller powered by Facebook Inc.’s Oculus at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Sunday. The new virtual reality headset itself only has minor changes over the last version of the headset …

Investors sell bitcoin after currency hits record high in overnight trading

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Investors heavily sold bitcoin in trading early Friday morning after the cryptocurrency hit a record high of $1,206.02 in overnight trading. The surge in the price of bitcoin has been attributed to growing confidence that at least one of the three proposed …

Systems administrator’s appeal could cause serious problems for enterprise IT

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A former systems administrator who was convicted on a charge relating to his decision to delete files at a company where he worked is appealing his sentence on the grounds that he was authorized to do so. The argument could have serious ramifications for …

Cloudflare patches bug that leaked data from Uber, Fitbit and others

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc. has patched a software bug that exposed sensitive information including passwords, cookies and tokens used to authenticate users from the websites of its 5.5 million users, including those of Uber Technologies Inc., OK Cupid and Fitbit Inc. …

Google has cracked the widely used SHA-1 encryption standard

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

Researchers at Google Inc. and Centrum Wiskunde & Informatic have managed to achieve a collision attack against SHA-1, proving finally that the commonly used cryptography standard can be easily subverted. For those not aware of the standard, or only understand SHA-1 encryption …

New Patcher macOS ransomware offers no way to decrypt files

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY9 YEARS AGO

A newly discovered form of ransomware that targets macOS users encrypts files but because of poor coding provides no way for the files to be decrypted, according to a report published Wednesday. Called Patcher, the ransomware is distributed via torrent files that advertise …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Man sentenced to jail time following drone crash that injured two people

Data on Yelp, 4chan, bitcoin sites and more exposed in Cloudbleed breach, but experts urge calm

Drones are now being used to speed up insurance claims

Report: SoftBank could invest up to $4B in co-working firm WeWork

Samsung announces new Gear VR headset with a motion-sensitive controller

Investors sell bitcoin after currency hits record high in overnight trading

Systems administrator’s appeal could cause serious problems for enterprise IT

Cloudflare patches bug that leaked data from Uber, Fitbit and others

Google has cracked the widely used SHA-1 encryption standard

New Patcher macOS ransomware offers no way to decrypt files

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