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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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HackForums — (Peter Taylor / Flickr)

Report: Cybercrime causes over $600 billion in damage annually

Geopolitics

Image: uTorrent

uTorrent vulnerabilities allow information disclosure and remote code execution

Technology

(Getty Images)

Indictments reveal how Russia’s 2016 election information warfare worked

Geopolitics

Two Russians sentenced to prison for role in hacks against U.S. companies

Geopolitics

(Photo: HackerOne)

U.S. Air Force pays out $103,883 to hackers in bug bounties

Threats

salon cryptomining — (Getty)

Why Salon is turning to cryptomining

Technology

Apple — (Flickr)

After litany of alleged lies, Israeli hacking firm Ability Inc. settles lawsuit for $3 million

Technology

salon monero — Salon wants to mine Monero if you visit their site with an adblocker. (Getty)

Salon will use readers’ CPUs to mine Monero

Technology

Shopify’s office (Flickr)

Shopify pays $15,250 bug bounty for a Christmas Eve vulnerability

Technology