Skip to content
HeyJared

Patrick Howell O'Neill

Reporter · MY

Indexed articles, last 90 days
5
Latest publication
Sep 18, 2026
Outlet visibility, for Thestar
Top 5K sites
Earliest in this view
Jul 20, 2026

Latest articles

  1. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Patrick Howell O'Neill, Maggie Eastland

    White House Weighs Incubator for Cyber Research, Startups (opens the original)

    Excerpt · English

    Read excerpt

    The Trump administration is weighing a plan to establish a government-led incubator aimed at investing in cybersecurity research and spinning out startups focused on developing tools for the government to use, according to people familiar with the situation. The White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director has been drafting an executive order that would establish a program to research and develop cyber technologies that are aligned with the priorities of the US government, the people said

  2. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · Patrick Howell O'Neill

    FBI Investigating Possible Exposure of Millions of American IDs (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Critical tone · English

    Read excerpt

    The FBI is investigating a potential breach of an ID verification company that may have exposed scans of millions of Americans’ driver’s licenses, a bureau spokesperson told Bloomberg News on Thursday. Access to the data of more than 160 million “North American” driver’s licenses is being sold on a new service called Nexus, according to an advertisement on the Russian-language cybercrime forum known as Exploit. The advertisement also references “160M+ USA DL/ID Scans + data.” “We are offering ac

  3. Article · Jul 31, 2026 · Patrick Howell O'Neill, Shirin Ghaffary

    Anthropic AI Models Hacked Three Organizations During Tests (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Critical tone · English

    Read excerpt

    nthropic PBC said its artificial intelligence models breached three organizations during cybersecurity tests that went awry, a little more than a week after its chief rival, OpenAI, disclosed a similar incident. Anthropic said in a blog post Thursday that it made the discovery after performing a review of its own cybersecurity tests, following OpenAI’s announcement of a breach. In both the OpenAI and Anthropic tests, the AI models were able to access the internet from within testing environments

  4. Article · Jul 28, 2026 · Patrick Howell O'Neill

    AI finding twice as many cyber flaws in 2026 as it did in 2025 (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Critical tone · English

    Read excerpt

    The number of software security flaws discovered in popular technology products in 2026 is on pace to roughly double the tally of vulnerabilities that surfaced in 2025, an explosion driven by increasingly capable artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The US National Vulnerabilities Database, a repository of digital security holes, recorded 45,207 flaws between January and July 27, a count approaching the total number found in all of 2025. Last year saw an all-time record for recorded vulnerabili

  5. Article · Jul 20, 2026 · Patrick Howell O'Neill

    iPhone hacking firm sues ex-worker over alleged theft of secrets (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Critical tone · English

    Read excerpt

    Magnet Forensics Inc, a Canadian cybersecurity firm, accused a former contractor of sharing trade secrets about a previously unknown flaw used to hack iPhones with a rival firm. The company filed a lawsuit in federal court against Mario Del Gaudio, and Paradigm Shift Technology SL, alleging the flaw was publicly disclosed on Paradigm’s blog. Both Magnet and Paradigm Shift develop so-called zero-day hacking tools to sell to government customers such as police for investigations. Zero days are com

Publishing over time

Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.

Recurring subjects

Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.

Audience

Top 5K sites

For Thestar, the outlet · Measured Aug 1, 2026

Website popularity band, not a count of readers or article views.

About this data

Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.

Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.

See coverage about Patrick Howell O'Neill