Patrick Howell O'Neill

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

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Whole Foods investigating breach tied to point-of-sale systems

Technology

salon cryptomining — (Getty)

Hackers find unpatched servers to secretly mine $17,000 in Monero per month

Technology

Hawkeye. Photo: United States Navy.

Northrop Grumman awarded $14.5 million to build cybersecurity capabilities into surveillance planes

Government

europol — Europol, the EU’s law enforcement agency, was in on the bust. (Europol)

Europol: Ransomware is far and away criminals’ favorite attack method

Government

ad network malware — Scammers are filling ad networks with malicious ads that appear in Android apps. (Maurizio Pesce / Flickr / CC-BY-2.0)

AI now detects the majority of new malware on Android

Technology

(Gety Images)

The business models behind ATM malware empires

Financial

(yubico)

New dime-sized YubiKey adds more mobility to authentication keys

Technology

voting machines, election security, polling — (Stephen Valasco / Flickr)

DHS notifies 21 states of Russian hacking attempts prior to 2016 election

Policy

(Mike Mozart/Flickr)

‘Confidential’ Verizon credentials, server logs left publicly exposed

Technology