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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Members of the U.S. House of Representatives leave the U.S. Capitol after a series of votes on Sept. 25. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Host of House panels getting briefed on major Chinese hacker telecom breaches

Threats

U.S. President Joe Biden departs after speaking to the media on July 1. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Biden administration nears completion of second cybersecurity executive order with plethora of agenda items

Cybersecurity

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., speaks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol on July 8. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Exclusive: Senator calls on Commerce to tighten proposed rules on exporting surveillance, hacking tech to problematic nations

Exclusive

Federal CISO Mike Duffy speaks during CyberTalks in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 30, 2024. (Scoop News Group photo)

Threat awareness, cloud security, quantum computing among chief agency cyber policy priorities ahead

Government

The NSO Group company logo is displayed on a wall of a building next to one of their branches in the southern Israeli Arava valley near Sapir community centre on February 8, 2022. NSO Group currently has 39 legal cases against it due to the fallout around its Pegasus spyware product. (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Legal barriers complicate justice for spyware victims

Privacy

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

Coker: Agencies flooded with cyberattacks, beset with complex problems can’t always innovate

Cybersecurity

Tankers from the 33rd separate mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces fire with a Leopard 2A4 tank during a field training at an undisclosed location in Ukraine on Oct. 27. (Photo by Genya SAVILOV / AFP)

Suspected Russian hacking, influence operations take aim at Ukrainian military recruiting

Threats

Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) and U.S. Senator from Ohio and Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance attend a remembrance ceremony on the 23rd anniversary of the September 11 terror attack on the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, in New York City. (Photo by Adam GRAY / AFP)

Report: Chinese hackers used telecom access to go after phones of Trump, Vance

Cybersecurity

UnitedHealth Group, Inc. CEO Andrew Witty appears before House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations at the Rayburn House Office Building on May 1 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Change Healthcare breach affected 100 million Americans, marking a new record

Ransomware