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

Research finds WordPress security flaws exist but not as bad as thought

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

A new study has found that while Automattic Inc.’s WordPress content management system continues to have security flaws, they’re not as bad as commonly thought. German security firm RIPS Technologies GmbH analyzed all 47,959 plugins that are available from the official WordPress repository using …

Report: Facebook drone crashed due to wind and software failure

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

An inquiry by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board following the crash of Facebook Inc.’s Aquila drone back in June has determined the cause: wind and software failure. The maiden flight of the solar-powered Aquila drone, which has a wingspan roughly equivalent to a Boeing …

LinkedIn-owned Lynda.com hacked with 9.5M accounts compromised

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

2016 can’t end quickly enough in the land of corporate security. LinkedIn Inc.-owned online learning provider Lynda.com disclosed over the weekend that it was hacked, with the personal details of some 9.5 million users being accessed. On a bright note, if there …

General Motors starts testing self-driving cars in Michigan

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

General Motors Corp. will begin testing its own self-driving cars in Michigan following the state’s decision to legalize the operation of autonomous vehicles, the company announced Thursday. Testing of GM’s autonomous Chevrolet Bolt EV had been underway at GM’s Technical Center campus …

Verizon’s Yahoo acquisition in doubt following latest hack disclosure

INFRA By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Verizon Communications Inc.’s takeover of Yahoo Inc. has been thrown into doubt again following news Wednesday that Yahoo had suffered another major hack that had compromised the accounts of a staggering 1 billion users. According to Bloomberg, Verizon is exploring a price …

Open-source peer-to-peer marketplace OpenBazaar raises $3M seed round

NEWS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

OB1, the development company behind open-source peer-to-peer marketplace OpenBazaar, has raised $3 million in a seed funding round backed by BlueYard Capital, Union Square Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. Launched in April this year, OpenBazaar provides a decentralized P2P e-commerce marketplace powered by …

28 Android phones including Lenovo models found to ship with malware

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

New research has found that 28 Android phones ship from the factory with preinstalled malware that can hijack a phone, install adware and other forms of malware. The phones were discovered with the malicious apps by security researchers with Russian antivirus firm …

Wynn Las Vegas to equip every room with an Amazon Echo

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Ordering room service could soon be as easy as saying, “Alexa, order me a room service hamburger.” Wynn Las Vegas today announced a deal with Amazon.com Inc. to equip its hotel rooms with Amazon’s smart home assistant Echo. The deal, claimed to be …

Uber hits obstacles on first day of self-driving car trial in San Francisco

EMERGING TECH By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Ride hailing giant Uber Technologies Inc. has expanded its trial of self-driving cars to San Francisco, but it ran into technological and political traffic on its very first day. The San Francisco test started Wednesday morning with a fleet of 11 Volvo …

34 arrested in global crackdown on distributed denial-of-service attacks

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY10 YEARS AGO

Law enforcement officials in the United States, Europe and Australia have arrested 34 people as part of a global crackdown on distributed denial of service attacks. The arrests targeted buyers of DDoS-for-hire services, often using names such as “server stressers” and “booters,” …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

Research finds WordPress security flaws exist but not as bad as thought

Report: Facebook drone crashed due to wind and software failure

LinkedIn-owned Lynda.com hacked with 9.5M accounts compromised

General Motors starts testing self-driving cars in Michigan

Verizon’s Yahoo acquisition in doubt following latest hack disclosure

Open-source peer-to-peer marketplace OpenBazaar raises $3M seed round

28 Android phones including Lenovo models found to ship with malware

Wynn Las Vegas to equip every room with an Amazon Echo

Uber hits obstacles on first day of self-driving car trial in San Francisco

34 arrested in global crackdown on distributed denial-of-service attacks

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