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Patrick Howell O'Neill

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

Articles by Author

Pakistan Monument, photo by Maqsoodgujjer (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Pakistani military leverages Facebook Messenger for wide-ranging spyware campaign

Threats

Electron — (Screenshot via electronjs.org)

Security flaw in Electron impacts hundreds of desktop apps

Technology

iphone jailbreak — Photo by Paul Hudson/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

No, Apple is not making it harder for cops to hack iPhones

Technology

Department of Justice — (Wikicommons)

Accused Romanian hackers and financial fraudsters extradited to U.S.

Policy

Yahoo breach lawsuit — (Rex Lam / Flickr)

Sentencing delayed for FSB’s email-popping hacker pawn

Geopolitics

Kaspersky Lab cybersecurity — Kaspersky Lab’s headquarters in Moscow. (Getty Images)

U.S. government weighing sanctions against Kaspersky Lab

Technology

Kaspersky twitter ban — Kaspersky Lab CEO Eugene Kaspersky at the Starmus IV science festival in Trondheim, Norway, in June. (Norwegian University of Science and Technology / Kai T. Dragland / Flickr)

Kaspersky Lab banned from advertising on Twitter

Technology

White House, national security council — (Getty Images / Greg Otto / Scoop News Group)

A cybersecurity power struggle is brewing at the National Security Council

Technology

The case stems from a LinkedIn breach reported in 2014.

Prosecutors hand over terabytes of evidence in case against Russian charged with LinkedIn breach

Government