Patrick Howell O'Neill

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

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In-progress email threads were hacked to spearphish private companies, report says

Technology

NSA — (Wikicommons)

Report: Russian hackers stole NSA data with help from Kaspersky products

Geopolitics

eset winnti — In the sample examined by ESET, a tool linked with the Winnti Group that obfuscates code was combined with an implant that has been attributed to Equation Group. (Getty)

Keybase launches end-to-end encrypted git

Technology

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Spanish court will extradite Russian cybercriminal suspect to U.S.

Government

Voting machine manufacturers pushed for cybersecurity information by Sen. Wyden

Government

Equifax settlement — The judge’s decision Monday represents the final approval of a settlement deal initially proposed in July. (Flickr)

Equifax: 2.5 million more individuals impacted by hack, total rises to 145.5 million

Financial

Supreme Court. Photo: Richard Gillin/Flickr (CC BY SA 2.0)

Wyden pushes Supreme Court to adopt email encryption standards that it currently doesn’t use

Government

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U.S., Russia fighting to extradite suspected Russian cybercriminal who ran $4 billion bitcoin exchange

Geopolitics

DanaBot — (Getty)

Cybersecurity is U.S. bank regulator’s top priority

Financial