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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A rattlesnake is seen in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on November 12, 2019. (Photo by CARL DE SOUZA / AFP) (Photo by CARL DE SOUZA/AFP via Getty Images)

Facebook tackles hacking groups with apparent ties to Palestine, Hamas

Technology

A Ukrainian serviceman patrols along a trench in Schastya, Lugansk region, near the frontline with Russia backed separatists on April 16, 2021. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

‘Gamaredon’ hackers target Ukrainian officials amid rising Russian tensions

Government

Kevin Doncaster, Flickr

A push for cybersecurity philanthropic giving launches

Financial

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is one of the regulators involved in the proposed breach notification rule. (Photo by George Rose/Getty Images)

Banking organizations dub proposed US cyber notification regulation ‘burdensome’

Financial

People walk past the Federal Reserve building on March 19, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Images)

Financial industry preps for proposal that would require 36-hour breach notification

Financial

This illustration picture shows debit and credit cards arranged on a desk on April 6, 2020 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Olivier DOULIERY / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

No honor among thieves: Scammers target stolen credit card hubs

Technology

An assistant advises a customer at the L’Intendant Grands Vins de Bordeaux wine shop on June 29, 2018 in Bordeaux, France. L’Intendant is considered one of the grandest wine shops in France with a staircase that spirals up five floors surrounded by cylindrical shelves holding as many as 15,000 bottles of regional wine at prices ranging from €7 to thousands of Euros. (Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images)

Wine scams spiked during COVID-19 lockdown

Financial

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

CNA shares details about ransomware attack, recovery effort

Money

White House — (Obama White House / Flickr)

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

Government