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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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WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 12: White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House on May 12, 2021 in Washington, DC. The majority of the briefing focused on the ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline.. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Government, industry scramble to prioritize ransomware amid fallout from pipeline, JBS breaches

Threats

A voter casts a ballot at a voting machine at a polling station at Cheyenne High School on Election Day on November 8, 2016 in North Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

First major voting vendor, Hart InterCivic, partners with Microsoft on ambitious software security tool ElectionGuard

Government

dark web, hacker — (Getty Images)

Cybercrime forum advertises alleged database, source code from Russian firm that helped Parler

Government

WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 25: U.S. President Joe Biden answers questions from members of the press before departing from the White House. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Biden budget seeks $750 million to respond to SolarWinds compromises, plus billions more for cyber

Government

polling place, election site — (Lorie Shaull / Flickr)

Cozy Bear revisits one of its greatest hits, researchers say: election skulduggery

Threats

Demonstrators rally to ask for news of their Uyghur relatives and to express their concern about the ratification of a Chinese treaty in 2021. (Photo by Yasin AKGUL / AFP) (Photo by YASIN AKGUL/AFP via Getty Images)

Possible Chinese hackers pose as UN, human rights group to eavesdrop on beleaguered Uyghur population

Geopolitics

Townhouses face and old canal and bridge in Brugge, or Bruges, Belgium. (Getty Images)

Belgium uproots cyber-espionage campaign with suspected ties to China

Government

Greek god and goddess vector illustration series, Heracles or Hercules fighting the Lernaean Hydra or Hydra of Lerna, Second Labor of Heracles

How Hydra, a Russian dark net market, made more than $1 billion in 2020

Geopolitics

ransomware healthcare — The healthcare sector has seen enterprises both large and small shut down due to ransomware attacks. (Getty Images)

Conti ransomware gang victimized US health care, first-responder networks, FBI says

Healthcare