Duncan Riley, Author at SiliconANGLE

‘Script kiddies’ blamed for massive website cyber attack

By Duncan Riley Oct 26, 2016

A massive distributed denial of service attack that brought down leading sites across the world on Friday is being attributed to script kiddies, or people who use existing scripts or programs, who wanted to take…

Guidelines for preventing car hacking issued to automakers

By Duncan Riley Oct 26, 2016

Following on from a warning in March from the Federal Bureau of Investigation that cars with computer systems can be hacked, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has issued a set of recommended cyber…

Akamai shares rise as security and cloud services surge in Q3

By Duncan Riley Oct 26, 2016

Shares in cloud service provider Akamai Technologies Inc. rose more than 8 percent in after-hours trading Tuesday as the company reported strong growth from its security and cloud performance services. Akamai reported revenues of…

Overstock.com to open blockchain based equities trading platform before year’s end

By Duncan Riley Oct 25, 2016

Overstock.com Inc. is moving forward with plans to launch a private blockchain-based equities exchange. The company said at a conference Monday that the exchange would be launching before the end of the year. The T0.com…

If you own any Apple device, you need to install these latest security patches

By Duncan Riley Oct 25, 2016

Apple Inc. has released security updates for all its products, including iOS, macOS, Safari, Apple Watch and AppleTV to patch a range of vulnerabilities, including a number that allow for remote code execution attacks.…

Russian man charged with LinkedIn hack also linked to Dropbox and Formspring

By Duncan Riley Oct 25, 2016

A Russian man arrested in the Czech Republic earlier this month has been linked to the hacking of Dropbox Inc. and Formspring along with the initial claim that he was behind the hacking of…

A first: Cotton shipped to China using blockchain-based smart contract

By Duncan Riley Oct 24, 2016

Eighty-eight bales of cotton have created history by becoming the first physical commodity to be traded and settled by banks using a blockchain-based smart contract system. The cotton bales were purchased in Texas and…

Philippines’ blockchain remittance firm Coins.ph raises $5 million

By Duncan Riley Oct 24, 2016

Two-year-old Philippine Bitcoin startup Coins.ph has raised $5 million for its mobile-focused blockchain payment platform. The Series A round was led by the Accion Frontier Inclusion Fund that included Innovation Endeavors, Pantera Capital, Digital…

Tesla to launch ride hailing in 2017, bans owners from Uber, Lyft

By Duncan Riley Oct 20, 2016

Tesla Motors Inc. will prevent owners of its new self-driving cars from providing ridesharing services on Lyft Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc. and will instead restrict them to using Tesla’s own yet-to-be-detailed ridesharing program. The…

Oracle issues 253 security fixes in monster October critical patch update

By Duncan Riley Oct 20, 2016

Oracle released a monster number of fixes Tuesday, delivering 253 security updates in its October “critical patch update.” The patches cover 76 Oracle product,s including databases, networking components, operating systems, applications servers, Java, and…

Duncan Riley

‘Script kiddies’ blamed for massive website cyber attack

Guidelines for preventing car hacking issued to automakers

Akamai shares rise as security and cloud services surge in Q3

Overstock.com to open blockchain based equities trading platform before year’s end

If you own any Apple device, you need to install these latest security patches

Russian man charged with LinkedIn hack also linked to Dropbox and Formspring

A first: Cotton shipped to China using blockchain-based smart contract

Philippines’ blockchain remittance firm Coins.ph raises $5 million

Oracle issues 253 security fixes in monster October critical patch update

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