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 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

Financial

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

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

Financial

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

Policy

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

Top insurer CNA disconnects systems after cyberattack

Money

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

Threats

NEW YORK, NY: A Manhattan restaurant rated with a Health Department “A” grade is seen March 7, 2011 in New York City. Preliminary results from the initial six months of the city’s new restaurant health grading system indicate that restaurants are taking steps to improve their food safety practices. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Biden administration mulls software security grades after SolarWinds

Government

Bottles of Coors beer are displayed on a shelf at a liquor store on May 2, 2018 in Fairfax, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Molson Coors says cyberattack disrupted beer brewing

Financial