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

Dallas residents get a scare after hackers set off emergency network sirens

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Residents of Dallas received an unwelcome scare Friday night after hackers managed to access the city’s emergency system and set off all of the city’s warning sirens. The hack saw all 156 of the city’s emergency sirens go off between 11:40 p.m. …

IoT garage door maker bricks customer’s device after negative review

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

The maker of an Internet of Things garage door opener is gaining attention for all the wrong reasons after he disabled the installation of a customer who had left a negative review. Denis Grisak founded a company called SoftComplex that launched Garadget, …

Report finds Mac malware skyrocketed 744 percent in 2016

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

A new report from researchers from the newly independent security firm McAfee LLC has found that Mac malware isn’t simply on the rise but skyrocketed 744 percent in 2016. The report found that most of the 460,000 forms of Mac malware McAfee detected were …

Lyft raises new $500M round to take on the struggling Uber

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Ride-hailing startup and Uber Technologies Inc. rival Lyft Inc. has raised $500 million in a new round, according to unconfirmed reports published Thursday. The New York Times claimed the round was raised at a valuation of $6.9 billion, while CNBC put the valuation at $7.5 …

Broadcom Wi-Fi chip vulnerability allows hackers to access Android and iOS devices

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

A vulnerability in Wi-Fi chipsets manufactured by Broadcom Ltd. and used in Android and iOS devices allows attackers to gain easy access to the devices, according to newly published research. Details of the vulnerability, first published by Google’s Project Zero security team …

After Japan legalizes bitcoin, hundreds of thousands of retailers may soon accept it

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Following a move by the Japanese government to recognize bitcoin as a legal payment method, hundreds of thousands of retail outlets in the country look set to allow the use of the cryptocurrency as a payment option. Two major Japanese retailers have signed …

At bail hearing, Yahoo hacker revealed to own a Lamborghini and other luxury cars

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

A Canadian man accused of being part of a Russian group that infamously hacked Yahoo Inc. in 2014 has made his first appearance in court to apply for bail prior to his extradition hearing. Karim Baratov, 22, was one of four people indicted …

Study finds some Android apps secretly collude with others to steal data

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

A study released this week by researchers at Virginia Tech has found that not only do Android apps leak data but they also mine smartphone users’ data by secretly colluding with each other. The study, described as the “first ever large-scale and systematic study of …

Facebook takes the fight to Slack with a free version of its Workplace collaboration service

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc. is upping its efforts to challenge Slack Technologies Inc. in team collaboration by launching a new free version of its Workplace service. Workplace originally launched in October, offering an intra-office communication platform that mixes some of Facebook’s most popular social features with tools …

IBM to power cloud deep learning with latest Nvidia graphics chip

CLOUD By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp. has upped the ante for its cloud hosting services, announcing that it is the first major cloud provider to make Nvidia Corp.’s Tesla P100 graphics processing unit available globally. The rollout of the Tesla P100 GPUs brings Nvidia’s acceleration technology …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Dallas residents get a scare after hackers set off emergency network sirens

IoT garage door maker bricks customer’s device after negative review

Report finds Mac malware skyrocketed 744 percent in 2016

Broadcom Wi-Fi chip vulnerability allows hackers to access Android and iOS devices

After Japan legalizes bitcoin, hundreds of thousands of retailers may soon accept it

At bail hearing, Yahoo hacker revealed to own a Lamborghini and other luxury cars

Study finds some Android apps secretly collude with others to steal data

Facebook takes the fight to Slack with a free version of its Workplace collaboration service

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