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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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The central green of Tsinghua University, Beijing. (jonparry / Flickr)

Report: Chinese probed Alaska organizations after trade talks in early 2018

Government

(Marcin Wichary / Flickr)

Microsoft patches zero-day exploit against Internet Explorer

Technology

(Daniel Oines / Flickr)

Foreshadow, the new data-stealing vulnerabilities impacting Intel chips

Technology

verizon 2018 DBIR — (Getty)

Former Microsoft engineer sentenced for role in ransomware scheme

Government

Matt Olsen speaks in April 2012 at an event hosted in Arlington, Virginia, by the Intelligence and National Security Alliance. (Rachel Lynne Smith / Reality Prose Productions / Flickr)

Uber hires former NSA counsel Matt Olsen as top security executive

Technology

wolfrat — the software pulls information from Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Line, an end-to-end encrypted messaging application that’s popular in Asia. (Flickr user StevenW / CC-BY-2.0)

‘Man-in-the-disk’ attack took advantage of Android data security flaws

Technology

fortnite android — (Epic Games) Fortnite is dropping into Android

Here comes the storm: ‘Fortnite’ arrives on Android, cybersecurity experts sound alarm

Technology

fin7 fbi — A special unit of the police of Ukraine conducts investigative measures. Ukraine is one country with the FBI has FBI legal attachés working on cybersecurity cases. (Getty)

How FBI’s global reach took down a cybercrime unicorn

Government

FBI — (Getty Images)

DOJ arrests three Ukrainians allegedly tied to FIN7 hacking gang

Government