Patrick Howell O'Neill

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

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Kaspersky — Kaspersky CEO Eugene Kaspersky at the 2017 Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit (Eugene Kaspersky / Flickr)

Pentagon’s looming Kaspersky ban viewed as ‘purely political’

Government

Eugene Kaspersky, right, pictured with INTERPOL General Secretary Ronald Noble in 2013. (Flickr / Eugene Kaspersky)

Kaspersky products banned in draft Pentagon budget

Government

dark web, hacker — (Getty Images)

$365,000 dark net phishing scam leads to guilty plea from U.S. hacker

Technology

(Flickr / Christiaan Colen)

Ukrainian officials: Hacked auto-updates spread ransomware infection across country

Technology

A screen locked with Petya ransomware

Worldwide effort underway to stop massive ransomware outbreak

Geopolitics

bug bounty pen testing — (Alexandre Dulaunoy / Wikicommons)

94 percent of Forbes 2000 companies have no bug bounty programs, report says

Technology

Getty

New cybersecurity partnership makes it easier for Israeli companies to sell to U.S. authorities

Government

WhatsApp — (Luis / Flickr)

Encryption debate is a top focus at Five Eyes meeting

Government

Anthem breach settlement — (Matthew Hurst / Flickr)

Anthem will pay $115 million in largest data breach settlement in history

Technology