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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Privacy-boosting tech could prevent breaches, data misuse with government aid, report says

Privacy

Flowers bloom in front of the entrance to the Capitol One financial services company headquarters on Sept. 12, 2024, in McLean, Va. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images)

Capital One hacker Paige Thompson got too light a sentence, appeals court rules

Cybersecurity

David Weinberg, staff director for Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, speaks during the FedScoop-produced Elastic Public Sector Summit in Washington, D.C., on March 19, 2025. (EPNAC / Photos by Sergey Kolupaev)

Congress should re-up 2015 information-sharing law, top Hill staffer says

Policy

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Six additional countries identified as suspected Paragon spyware customers

Threats

A demonstrator holds up a sign during a rally in front of the U.S. Treasury Department in protest of Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency on Feb. 4. (Photo by Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images)

DOGE staffer violated security policies at Treasury Department, court filing shows

Government

(L-R) Rep. Nick LaLota R-N.Y., Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. and Rep. Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., listen during a hearing with the House Committee on Homeland Security on Jan. 30, 2024. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trade groups worry information sharing will worsen without critical infrastructure panel, CISA law renewal

Government

U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., departs a news conference following a House Republican caucus meeting on Feb. 25, 2025. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Amid personnel turmoil at cyber agencies, a government shutdown could increase potential harm

Workforce

Sean Plankey — Sean Plankey speaks at a Department of Energy event in 2018, while he was a cyber adviser at BP. (Argonne National Laboratory / Flickr)

Sean Plankey picked by Trump to be CISA director

Government

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Investigator says differing names for hacker groups, hackers studying investigative methods hinders law enforcement

Cybercrime