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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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U.S. Representatives of the 119th Congress are sworn in during the first day of session in the House chamber in 2025. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Meta confused over WhatsApp ban issued to House staffers

Government

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech standing in front of the monument “Fatherland, Valor, Honor” outside of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (SVR) in Moscow on June 30, 2022. (Photo by Mikhail Metzel / Sputnik / AFP) (Photo by MIKHAIL METZEL/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

Unusually patient suspected Russian hackers pose as State Department in ‘sophisticated’ attacks on researchers

Privacy

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Federal cyber insurance backstop should be tied to expiring terrorism insurance law, report recommends

Financial

The Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters is seen on April 25, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

SEC withdraws cyber rules for investment companies, advisers

Financial

This picture taken in 2020 shows members of Malaysia’s Predator club wearing custom helmets from the movie character “Predator” outside the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur. (Photo by MOHD RASFAN / AFP) (Photo by MOHD RASFAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Predator spyware activity surfaces in new places with new tricks

Privacy

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Paragon spyware found on the phones of Euro journos

Technology

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Dems want watchdog study of two troubled federally-funded vulnerability tracking initiatives

Government

Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, arrives before the start of a House Homeland Security Committee hearing in January of 2024. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

House Homeland Chairman Mark Green’s departure could leave congressional cyber agenda in limbo

Workforce

House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark Amodei, R-Nev., questions acting FEMA Administrator Cam Hamilton at a hearing on May 7. (Photo by Pete Marovich/Getty Images)

House committee sets CISA budget cut at $135M, not Trump’s $495M

Money