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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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Russian spammer and hacker Peter Levashov extradited to United States

Technology

cms breach — (Getty)

Medical supply giant Fresenius Medical Care fined $3.5 million for five data breaches

Healthcare

(Getty Images)

Pentagon’s network defense headquarters is fully operational

Government

kodi malware — A Kodi add-on repo was found to be mining Monero. (Getty)

Monero mining botnet ‘Smominru’ earns hackers $3.6 million

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)

Google killed 700,000 malicious apps in the Play Store in 2017

Technology

israel cybersecurity

Israel accounts for 16 percent of global cybersecurity investment, second only to U.S.

Technology

(Kārlis Dambrāns / Flickr)

Firefox vulnerability allowing for arbitrary code execution is fixed

Technology

Cisco — (Praytino / Flickr)

Cisco patches a perfect 10.0 ‘critical’ flaw in its popular security appliance

Technology

Allscripts — (Getty)

Allscripts faces lawsuit after ransomware attack impacts doctors’ offices across U.S.

Healthcare