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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F5 releases patches for nearly two dozen vulnerabilities, some critical

Technology

Downtown Atlanta skyline at night, photographed from the Jackson Street bridge on July 28, 2019. Atlanta suffered a major ransomware attack in 2018. (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)

Is Congress finally ready to pass meaningful ransomware legislation?

Financial

Accellion hack ensnares Flagstar Bank, putting customer and employee data at risk

Financial

Attendees listen to a speech during the the International Conference on the Legal-International Claims of the Holy Defense in the capital Tehran on February 23, 2021. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP) (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)

Suspected Iranian hackers snooping on Middle Eastern targets anew

Financial

WASHINGTON, DC: (L-R) FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia, SolarWinds CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna and Microsoft President Brad Smith testify during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on February 23, 2021 in Washington, DC.(Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Researchers uncover three more malware strains linked to SolarWinds hackers

Government

BAY SHORE, NEW YORK – MARCH 03: A medical worker at South Shore University Hospital administers the newly available Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to Susan Maxwell-Trumble on March 03, 2021 in Bay Shore, New York. The new vaccine from the American pharmaceutical company is a single shot vaccine that has shown 85 percent protection against severe disease and can be stored at regular refrigeration temperatures. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Scammers exploit COVID-19 vaccine confusion for fraud efforts

Financial

A group of men allegedly involved in a scam that Indian authorities said was meant to defraud US citizens cover their faces as they stand in a call centre in Noida, some 25km east of New Delhi, on December 21, 2018. (Photo credit should read -/AFP via Getty Images)

Robocalls keep spamming Americans, in part because of their cyber tools

Financial

WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 24: U.S. President Joe Biden holds a semiconductor during his remarks before signing an Executive Order on the economy in the State Dining Room of the White House on February 24, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Doug Mills/Pool/Getty Images)

Biden signs executive order demanding supply chain security review

Threats

WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 09: (L-R) Counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice Liz Howard, professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center Matt Blaze, endowed professor and chair of the University of Florida Juan Gilbert, president of the North Carolina NAACP T. Anthony Spearman, Commissioner of Election Assistance Commission Don Palmer, and county clerk and recorder of Christian County, Illinois, Michael Gianasi are sworn in during a hearing before the House Administration Committee January 9, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The committee held a hearing on “2020 Election Security-Perspectives from Voting System Vendors and Experts.” (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Election Assistance Commission loses another key staffer, Jerome Lovato

Government