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Tim Starks

Tim Starks is senior reporter at CyberScoop. His previous stops include working at The Washington Post, POLITICO and Congressional Quarterly. An Evansville, Ind. native, he’s covered cybersecurity since 2003. Email Tim here: tim.starks@cyberscoop.com.

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Assistant Director of the Cyber Division at the Federal Bureau of Investigation Bryan Vorndran speaks at a hearing with the House Committee on Oversight and Reform in the Rayburn House Office Building on November 16, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

FBI shifting cybercrime focus from arrests, indictments to payment seizures, incident response

Threats

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White House hosts open-source software security summit in light of expansive Log4j flaw

Government

Close-up of code on a computer screen for the Apache Struts framework, which was exploited by computer hackers using a Remote Code Execution exploit in order to allegedly steal the personal information of millions of people from credit bureau Equifax, Oct. 2, 2017. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

If hackers are exploiting the Log4j flaw, CISA says we might not know yet

Government

French national commission for computer technologies and liberty, or CNIL — The logo of the French national commission for computer technologies and liberty, or CNIL, as seen in Paris in 2010. (ETIENNE LAURENT/AFP via Getty Images)

French privacy regulator slaps Facebook, Google with fines totaling nearly $240M

Policy

Portgual media, newspapers — A woman leaves a kiosk displaying Portuguese newspapers in Lisbon on November 11, 2015. (PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA/AFP via Getty Images)

Portuguese media empire struck in the latest cyberattack on news outlets

Money

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Nation-state hackers aim to exploit Log4j software flaw, Microsoft warns

Threats

DHS supply chain security — (U.S. Customs and Border Protection / Flickr)

CISA probes scope, potential fallout of Log4j vulnerability

Government

WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 16: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of the Department of Homeland Security, on Capitol Hill Washington, D.C. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

DHS establishes its own bug bounty program, offering outsiders $500 to $5K for discovering flaws

Government

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Defense Department blocks ads to counter malvertising, official tells Congress

Policy