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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Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill on Feb. 5. (Photo by Al Drago/Getty Images)

DHS won’t tell Congress how many people it’s cut from CISA

Workforce

Chair Katie Britt, R-Ala. (R), and Ranking Member Christopher Murphy, D-Conn., (L) appear as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on May 8. Noem testified before the Homeland Security Subcommittee about her department’s FY 2026 budget request. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Sen. Murphy: Trump administration has ‘illegally gutted funding for cybersecurity’

Money

In this photo illustration a car’s Apple CarPlay screen displays the logo of Meta’s instant messaging service WhatsApp, on January 15, 2025 in Bath, England. (Photo by Anna Barclay/Getty Images)

NSO Group owes $168M in damages to WhatsApp over spyware infections, jury says

Technology

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem (R) greets House Appropriations’ Homeland Security Subcommittee Chairman Mark Amodei, R-Nev., before a hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on May 6. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

House appropriators have reservations — or worse — about proposed CISA cuts

Policy

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Trump administration proposes cutting $491M from CISA budget

Money

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Tariffs could slow replacement of telecom networks, according to industry official

Government

SentinelOne — The SentinelOne sign outside the New York Stock Exchange in 2021. (SentinelOne)

Cybersecurity vendors are themselves under attack by hackers, SentinelOne says

Ransomware

(Photo by PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP via Getty Images)

CISA gets new No. 2: Madhu Gottumukkala

Workforce

Air Force Lt. Col. Frank Jamerson speaks during AIScoop’s AITalks while the State Department’s Manny Medrano looks on. The event was held April 24, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Sergey Kolupaev/EPNAC)

AI speeds up analysis work for humans, two federal cyber officials say

AI