Patrick Howell O'Neill

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

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Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford testifies June 12 before the House Armed Services Committee. (Dept. of Defense Photo by Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Dominique A. Pineiro)

70 percent of U.S. Cyber Command force teams now ‘fully operational’

Geopolitics

Timothy Tsui / Flickr

Microsoft patches Windows XP due to ‘heightened risk’ of nation-state activity

Technology

Kim Il-Sung Square, Pyongyang North Korea

DHS identifies North Korean hacking infrastructure used by Lazarus Group

Government

Photo by Chris/Flickr (CC BY SA 2.0)

Israeli hacking company NSO Group is on sale for more than $1 billion

Technology

The Al Jazeera logo. (Osama Saeed Bhutta / Flickr)

Al Jazeera comes under cyberattack as Persian Gulf crisis escalates

Government

CEO Glen Chisholm (center), tech chief Ben Johnson (right), and chief scientist Matt Wolff (left). Courtesy of Greylock Partners

Ex-Cylance and Carbon Black execs launch Obsidian Security with $9.5 million investment

Technology

(Photo by Yubico, CC BY SA 4.0)

YubiKey’s maker lands $30 million investment

Technology

Illumio gets $125 million in Series D round, targets federal market

Technology

Photo by: Cancillería del Ecuador / CC2.0

WikiLeaks releases new round of CIA malware documents, this time with less supporting material

Government