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Shannon Vavra

Shannon Vavra covers the NSA, Cyber Command, espionage, and cyber-operations for CyberScoop. She previously worked at Axios as a news reporter, covering breaking political news, foreign policy, and cybersecurity. She has appeared on live national television and radio to discuss her reporting, including on MSNBC, Fox News, Fox Business, CBS, Al Jazeera, NPR, WTOP, as well as on podcasts including Motherboard’s CYBER and The CyberWire’s Caveat. Shannon hails from Chicago and received her bachelor’s degree from Tufts University.

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Computer with alert on it. — (Pixabay)

Cyber Command backs ‘urgent’ patch for F5 security vulnerability

Technology

Facebook — Attendees walk past a Facebook logo during the company’s F8 developers conference in San Jose, California, on April 30, 2019. (REUTERS / Stephen Lam)

Facebook reinstates NSO Group employee accounts amid ongoing lawsuit

Geopolitics

Microsoft; cyber peace institute — (Getty Images)

Microsoft issues two emergency security updates impacting Windows 10 and Windows Server

Technology

stalkerware — Under normal circumstances, stalkerware can make it difficult for domestic violence victims to get support since it can monitor targets’ every move on their phones. But during a pandemic, stalkerware can make it near impossible for victims to get help. (Scoop News Group / Danny McGarvey)

During a pandemic, stalkerware becomes even more sinister

Privacy

cyber flag — (DoD News / Flickr)

How COVID-19 changed Cyber Command’s ‘Cyber Flag’ exercise

Government

Coronavirus — A three-dimensional print of a SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, or coronavirus. (NIH)

Hackers are still running coronavirus-related campaigns, CrowdStrike warns

Healthcare

(Wikicommons)

Ransomware operators now threatening to publish stolen data in extortion demands

Threats

NSO Group — NSO Group’s spyware has previously been detected in surveillance targeting Moroccans, including one other journalist and an activist that has protested the government’s security forces, according to Amnesty. (Greg Otto/Scoop News Group)

Moroccan journalist targeted by NSO Group spyware, Amnesty International says

Technology

John Bolton’s book will be released to the public on June 23. (Flickr / Gage Skidmore)

Here’s what John Bolton had to say about cybersecurity policy in his new book

Geopolitics