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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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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

Policy

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

Government

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

Policy

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

DNS hijacking — (Getty Images)

F5 releases patches for nearly two dozen vulnerabilities, some critical

Policy

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?

Technology

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