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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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(Daniel Oines / Flickr)

Intel rushes to deploy firmware updates for critical CPU bug by end of next week

Technology

chip flaw — (Jeff Sass / Flickr)

Meet ‘Meltdown’ and ‘Spectre,’ the chip flaws causing problems for nearly everyone

Technology

intel chip flaw — (Flickr user lungstruck // CC-BY-2.0)

Industry braces for critical Intel security flaw impacting a decade’s worth of chips

Technology

A heat map from Check Point shows concentrations of the botnet’s appearances. (Check Point)

Hacker exploits router zero-day vulnerability in efforts to build Mirai-like botnet

Technology

Kaspersky sales — (Flickr/Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Lithuania bans Kaspersky software, citing potential national security threats

Government

cryptojacking — A bitcoin rig. Opera’s new browser blocks users from having their CPU siphoned off to power mining operations. (Flickr/Brendan Lim)

Opera adds cryptojacking defense to latest desktop browser

Technology

amazon web services — (Thomas Cloer / Flickr)

Another cloud leak shows AWS can only do so much to protect data

Technology

Twitter — (Pexels)

Twitter upgrades two-factor authentication options by allowing third party apps

Technology

Upstream Security cofounders, Yoav Levy (left) and Yonatan Appel (right) / (Upstream Security)

Israeli autonomous car cybersecurity firm Upstream Security raises $9 million

Transportation