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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Four Senate Democrats call on DHS to reinstate Cyber Safety Review Board membership

Government

A smart phone with the icons for the Google Calendar app is seen on the screen in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, on July 31, 2018. (Photo by S3studio/Getty Images)

Chinese hackers used Google Calendar to aid attacks on government entities

Technology

Downtown Baltimore and the Inner Harbor in Maryland; L. Toshio Kishiyama, Getty Images

Iranian man pleads guilty in Robbinhood ransomware scheme

Ransomware

U.S. Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., speaks alongside democratic senators to press in the U.S. Capitol on March 6. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

Senators revive bill to harmonize conflicting cybersecurity regulations

Exclusive

Hanan Elatr the wife of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi during an interview in 2021. (Photo by Jon Gerberg/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Appeals court rejects attempt by Khashoggi widow to renew suit against NSO Group

Technology

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Massachusetts man will plead guilty in PowerSchool hack case

Technology

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‘Whatever we did was not enough’: How Salt Typhoon slipped through the government’s blind spots

Cybersecurity

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Consensus forms on reauthorizing 2015 cyber info-sharing law now, upgrading it later

Government

Signage at the headquarters of SAP AG, Germany’s largest software company on January 8, 2013 in Walldorf, Germany. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images)

SAP cyberattack widens, drawing Salt Typhoon and Volt Typhoon comparisons

Threats