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Patrick Howell O'Neill

Patrick Howell O’Neill is a cybersecurity reporter for CyberScoop based in San Francisco.

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us air force cybersecurity — Airman 1st Class Nicholas Leon, 374th Communications Squadron cyber transport technician, connects a new Defense Switched Network line at the 374th CS building, Yokota Air Base, Japan, April 2, 2011. The Air Force will be outsourcing all its commodity IT. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Samuel Morse)

The U.S. Air Force is outsourcing all traditional IT in order to build cybersecurity mission teams

Government

Extradited Russian pleads not guilty to massive LinkedIn breach

Government

Zachary Buchta lizard squad — (Getty)

Lizard Squad’s ‘@fbiarelosers’ hacker gets smaller sentence for helping FBI arrest his friends

Technology

Drupalgeddon2

‘Highly critical’ Drupal security flaw prompts urgent patch

Technology

FBI going dark — ( Flickr / Kārlis Dambrāns)

FBI has a unit solely devoted to its ‘going dark’ problem

Policy

teenage hackers cybercrime law enforcement investigation — (Getty Images)

With cryptojacking rising, exploit kits rapidly decline

Technology

TLS 1.3 — (Getty)

The internet’s most important security protocol is finally moving forward

Technology

netflix bug bounty program — Netflix’s Los Angeles office. (Netflix)

Netflix launches a public bug bounty program

Technology

Photo: Dropbox

Dropbox revamps vulnerability disclosure policy, with hopes that other companies follow suit

Technology