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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More than 1 million decrypted Gmail and Yahoo accounts are for sale on the dark web

More than 1 million usernames, emails and decrypted passwords of Gmail and Yahoo accounts have been found on sale in a dark web marketplace. According to reports, a dark web seller who goes by the name of SunTzu583 is offering to sell 100,000 Yahoo accounts from the 2012 Last.fm data breach, 145,000 Yahoo accounts from the ...

Google enhances cloud partner program to take on AWS and Azure

Google Inc. has announced that it is enhancing its cloud partner program to make it easier for partners to build products seamlessly across its range of offerings. At the top of the list is the introduction of Google Cloud Partner Specializations, a new program that identifies partners via their specialties to make it easier for customers to recognize ...

Avaya agrees to sell its networking business to Extreme Networks for $100M

Troubled business communications company Avaya Inc. has agreed to sell its networking business to Extreme Networks Inc. for $100 million as part of its efforts to battle its way out of bankruptcy. Avaya, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in January in an effort to reduce its debt load of about $6.3 billion, entered the networking business when it ...

Be very afraid: Wikileaks reveals CIA is hacking Android, iOS and even smart TVs

A new release by Wikileaks of thousands of top-secret documents from the Central Intelligence Agency has revealed for the first time that the agency is actively hacking a wide variety of smart devices, even smart televisions. The “Year Zero” release, the first part of what Wikileaks dubs “Vault 7,” includes 8,761 documents and files said ...

Check Point adds Google Cloud support to vSec security platform

Israeli security firm Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has extended support in its vSEC security platform to provide coverage for Google Cloud for the first time. VSEC for Google Cloud Platform delivers advanced security built for agile and scalable cloud environments that includes: Advanced Threat Prevent that complements Google Cloud Platform’s native controls by securing traffic ...

Qapital raises $12M in bid to reinvent financial services for millennials

Finance application startup Qapital Inc. has raised $12 million in a new early-stage round of funding for its goal of reinventing financial services. Founded in 2012, Qapital offers a money management application that allows users to organize their finances in a single place by connecting their online accounts. It claims to offer an instant overview of ...

CA Technologies snaps up application security firm Veracode for $614M

CA Technologies Inc. has acquired application security firm Veracode Inc. for $614 million in cash. Founded in 2006, Veracode offers cloud-based application intelligence and security verification services that it claims improve the security of internally developed, purchased or outsourced software applications and third-party components. The company’s platform uses static, dynamic and manual testing, eLearning capabilities and ...

In a test for enterprise software IPOs, MuleSoft set to go public next week

Application network platform provider MuleSoft Inc. is set to go public soon at a nearly $2 billion valuation in the latest test of investors’ appetite for big tech company initial public offerings. Founded in 2006, MuleSoft offers a software-as-a-service platform that provides a way to connect applications and data in traditional on-premises data centers with the new ...

Amazon acquires Thinkbox, which renders computer imagery in Hollywood blockbusters

Amazon.com Inc. has acquired Thinkbox Software Inc., a firm that produces software for managing media rendering workloads, for an undisclosed sum. The news was revealed today in a terse post on Thinkbox’s website. Founded in 2012, Thinkbox makes software that is used by media and entertainment architects and engineers to manage render farms. Those are high-performance computer systems ...

HackerOne offers free bug bounty service for open-source projects

Bug bounty startup HackerOne Inc. is giving back to the open-source community with a new program that provides its professional suite for free to qualifying projects. Dubbed the HackerOne Community Program, the program is open to open-source projects that are licensed under an Open Source Initiative license and have been active for at least three months. In ...