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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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Ron Wyden — Ron Wyden during a hearing.

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

Geopolitics

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

Kevin Mandia FireEye Mandiant — Kevin Mandia speaks May 31, 2018, at the Cyber Threat Intelligence Forum presented by FireEye and produced by CyberScoop and FedScoop. (Scoop News Group)

As FireEye grapples with breach investigation, questions remain

Geopolitics

Cloudflare IPO — Cloudflare headquarters in San Francisco. (Getty Images)

Meet ODoH, where privacy means just not knowing anything

Technology

Internet of things (IoT) — (Getty Images)

33 connectivity flaws render millions of IT, IoT devices vulnerable

Technology

Sen. Angus King and Rep. Mike Gallagher. — Sen. Angus King and Rep. Mike Gallagher, left, at the Council on Foreign Relations January, 2020. (Kaveh Sardari)

A look inside Congress’ biggest cyber bill ever

Policy

(Flickr / Hannah Rosen)

Congress set to establish White House national cyber director, enact other Solarium Commission recommendations

Government