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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National Cyber Director Harry Coker Jr., speaks at CyberTalks in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 30, 2024. (Scoop News Group photo)

National Cyber Director Harry Coker looks back (and ahead) on the Cyber Director office

Workforce

The sun flares over the headquarters of the U.S. Treasury on Jan. 3, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images)

U.S. sanctions take aim at Chinese company said to aid hackers’ massive botnet

Financial

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After UN adoption, controversial cybercrime treaty’s next steps could prove vital

Cybercrime

A photographic illustration shows a mobile phone near the NSO Group company logo on Feb. 9, 2022 in the Israeli city of Netanya. (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Judge grants ruling in favor of WhatsApp against spyware firm NSO Group

Privacy

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Chinese cyber center points finger at U.S. over alleged cyberattacks to steal trade secrets

Government

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Russia bans cybersecurity company Recorded Future

Money

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Playbook advises federal grant managers how to build cybersecurity into their programs

Government

Students, behind a banner reading “15 minutes for 15 lives,” block a street in Belgrade on Dec. 12, standing in silence to honor the 15 victims of the tragedy that occurred at the railway station in Novi Sad in November. (Photo by Andrej ISAKOVIC / AFP)

Amnesty International exposes Serbian police’s use of spyware on journalists, activists

Geopolitics

Court indicts 14 North Korean IT workers tied to $88 million in illicit gains

Geopolitics