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

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Keyfactor and IBM Consulting launch joint solution to accelerate post-quantum cryptography readiness

Digital trust and quantum-safe security company Keyfactor Inc. today announced a new joint solution with IBM Consulting that gives enterprises visibility into their cryptographic assets, reduces operational and regulatory risk and accelerates readiness for post-quantum cryptography. The new joint solution combines Keyfactor’s cryptographic discovery, public key infrastructure, digital signing and certificate lifecycle automation capabilities with ...

Skeleton Key attack shows how hackers are bypassing malware defenses using legitimate software

Attackers are increasingly bypassing traditional malware defenses by weaponizing legitimate remote monitoring and management tools to establish persistent backdoor access inside enterprise environments, according to a new report out today from KnowBe4 Threat Labs. The report details a recent sophisticated dual-vector campaign dubbed “Skeleton Key” that shows a growing trend in which threat actors avoid ...

New Osiris ransomware reveals sophisticated tactics and experienced attackers

A new ransomware family called Osiris is being linked to an attack on a major conglomerate in Southeast Asia late last year, raising fresh concerns that experienced threat actors are behind what appears to be a newly emergent strain of ransomware. According to new research published today by Symantec and the Carbon Black Threat Hunter ...

Silent Push launches Traffic Origin to expose the true source of obfuscated web traffic

Preemptive cyber defense startup Silent Push Inc. today announced the launch of Traffic Origin, a cybersecurity solution designed to shift an organization’s security posture from reactive to proactive. It does so by exposing the true upstream origin of adversaries, whether they’re hiding via residential proxy, laptop farm, virtual private network or other obfuscation technique. Silent Push Traffic Origin ...

Sumo Logic targets data pipeline blind spots with new Snowflake and Databricks tools

Data analytics software firm Sumo Logic Inc. today announced two new Snowflake Inc. and Databricks Inc. apps that give customers more robust visibility into their data pipeline and provide stronger and more dependable security analytics and faster troubleshooting. The apps seek to assist with the issue whereby, as data volumes and associated vulnerabilities are rapidly growing, security, ...

Pentera Labs warns vulnerable demo apps are being actively exploited in the wild

Vulnerable training and demo applications exposed to the public internet are being actively exploited and used as entry points for full cloud account compromise at major enterprises, including Fortune 500 companies. That’s according to a new report out today from Pentera Labs, the research arm of Pentera Security Ltd. The report, When the Lab Door Stays Open, ...

Nightfall expands data protection with AI Browser Security for browsers, endpoints and SaaS

Cloud data protection startup Nightfall today announced the launch of its AI Browser Security solution, a new solution designed to stop real-time data theft through artificial intelligence tools, AI-powered browsers and modern web workflows that legacy data loss prevention solutions cannot see or control. The solution seeks to assist with the issue that has arisen as employees ...

AI inference startup Baseten hits $5B valuation in $300M round backed by Nvidia

Artificial intelligence inference startup Baseten Labs Inc. has raised $300 million in new funding on a $5 billion valuation. The round was co-led by Institutional Venture Partners LP and CapitalG LP, Google LLC’s independent growth fund, with Nvidia Corp. reportedly also participating with a $150 million investment. Founded in 2019, Baseten is an AI infrastructure ...

Court filings raise questions over DOGE access to Social Security Administration data

Questions about data governance and privacy safeguards at the U.S. Social Security Administration have resurfaced following new court filings that allege employees tied to the Department of Government Efficiency accessed sensitive agency systems. Accusations that DOGE employees may have illegally accessed or copied SSA data first emerged in August when a senior official filed a ...

Ethernovia raises more than $90M to advance Ethernet packet processors for automotive and edge AI

Semiconductor startup Ethernovia Inc. revealed today that it has raised more than $90 million in new funding to accelerate development and production of its next-generation packet processor family, expand software and systems capabilities, and support customer engagements across automotive, robotics and industrial markets. Founded in 2018, Ethernovia is focused on transforming how data moves within ...