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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Nissan investigated source code exposure, says it plugged leak

Financial

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Microsoft says SolarWinds hackers accessed company source code

Financial

Eastern District, federal courthouse, Alexandria, Virginia — (Tim Evanson / Flickr)

SolarWinds hack spotlights a thorny legal problem: Who to blame for espionage?

Financial

Joe Biden — Joe Biden speaks on the campaign trail in October 2020. (Biden for President / Flickr)

Biden takes aim at Trump, Russia over SolarWinds breach

Government

Snow day in Moscow, Russia. — Saint Basil’s Cathedral on Red Square in Moscow, Russia. (Getty Images)

How the Russian hacking group Cozy Bear, suspected in the SolarWinds breach, plays the long game

Geopolitics

Ron Wyden — Ron Wyden during a hearing.

Senators press Treasury to speak about breach, planned response to hackers

Government

MITRE ATT&CK — MITRE at the 2020 RSA Conference in San Francisco. (Greg Otto / Scoop News Group)

Here comes the bride: New map matches threat intel to cyberdefenses

Technology

pwn2own Vancouver 2019 day 2 — Richard Zhu, center, and Amat Cama, standing to Zhu’s left, demonstrate their Firefox exploit at the Pwn2Own conference in March 2019 in Vancouver, British Columbia. (Pwn2Own)

HackerOne, Verizon Media weigh pros and cons of making live hacking contests virtual

Financial

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin,then-Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, U.N. Representative Kelly Craft, and national security adviser Robert O’Brien chat before delivering remarks to the media at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 21, 2020. (State Department)

US investigates suspected cyber-espionage campaign against government agencies dating back months

Financial