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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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JPMorgan hack — (Getty Images)

U.S. extradites Russian accused in hack of JPMorgan Chase

Financial

Tor Browser, dark web, onion router — (Tor logo wia Wikicommons/Image by Greg Otto)

Tor launches official anonymous Android browser

Technology

Adware Doctor — Adware Doctor is one of most popular paid apps in the Mac App Store. (Pexels)

Popular Mac app grabs your browser history and sends it to China

Technology

Tesla cryptojacking — A Tesla Model S shown in a Tesla showroom. (Flickr / Seung Hyun Yu)

Tesla offers ‘goodwill’ to security researchers hacking its cars

Threats

‘We simply haven’t done enough’: Facebook and Twitter execs testify on foreign influence campaigns

Technology

threat intelligence — (Getty)

A well-known hacking group is getting better at evading detection

Technology

FBI — (Getty Images)

FBI launches new ‘Combating Foreign Influence’ website for political campaigns

Government

Bundestag — (Getty Images)

Germany launches new cybersecurity research agency modeled after DARPA

Government

login, password, credentials, email, phishing — (Getty Images)

Fourth man receives prison sentence in ‘Celebgate’ photo leak

Government