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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CNA Center in Chicago, Illinois on June 23, 2018. (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)

CNA shares details about ransomware attack, recovery effort

Financial

White House — (Obama White House / Flickr)

Biden’s cyber executive order to include new rules for federal agencies, contractors

Policy

A picture taken on November 23, 2015, at the headquarters of the French Judicial Police shows a part of the weapons seized by French police, along with cocaine and cannabis. AFP PHOTO / KENZO TRIBOUILLARD

DeepDotWeb boss pleads guilty to laundering millions

Policy

Troy, Mich. Flagstar Bank Corporate Branch & Home Loan Center

Hacker team-ups pose 2021 threat to financial industry, group cautions

Threats

Chairman Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) listens during the confirmation hearing for William Burns, nominee for Director of the CIA, before the Senate Intelligence Committee February 24, 2021. (Photo by Tom Brenner-Pool/Getty Images)

Senator hammers Facebook, Instagram over COVID-19 misinformation

Technology

CNA Center in Chicago, Illinois on June 23, 2018. (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)

Top insurer CNA disconnects systems after cyberattack

Financial

View of Castle Hotel at Legoland is seen on August 08, 2020 in Carlsbad, California. (Photo by RBL/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

IT consultant sentenced to 2 years in revenge-hacking case

Government

This long-exposure image shows a trail of a group of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites passing over Uruguay as seen from the countryside some 185 km north of Montevideo near Capilla del Sauce, Florida Department, on February 7, 2021. (Photo by Mariana SUAREZ / AFP) (Photo by MARIANA SUAREZ/AFP via Getty Images)

SpaceX engineer makes a first with dark web securities violations case

Government

Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) speaks at a Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs/Rules and Administration Committee hearing. (Photo by Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty Images)

Feds aren’t well prepared to spot SolarWinds-style hacks at agencies, CISA official says

Policy