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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Cyber information sharing law would get extension under shutdown deal bill

Policy

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New Landfall spyware apparently targeting Samsung phones in Middle East

Threats

The Congressional Budget Office hallways on the 4th floor of the Ford House Office Building. (Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images via Getty Images)

Agency that provides budget data to Congress hit with security incident

Financial

A laparoscopic surgical robot demonstrates grasping rose petals during the third phase of the 138th edition of the China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair) at the Canton Fair Complex on Nov. 1, 2025 in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province of China. A Commerce Department office should investigate Chinese government-connected products in more than a dozen emerging industries for security threats, a group of House GOP committee leaders said in a letter they released Wednesday. (Photo by Huang Taiming/VCG via Getty Images)

House GOP leaders seek government probe, restrictions on Chinese-made tech

Technology

People watch a television news programme showing file footage of North Korea’s missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on Jan. 1, 2020. (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)

North Korean companies, people sanctioned for money laundering from cybercrime, IT worker schemes

Financial

A sign marks the location of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) headquarters building on January 29, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images)

OPM plans to give CyberCorps members more time to find jobs after shutdown ends

Workforce

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Cyber scholarship-for-service students say government has pulled rug on them, potentially burdening them with debt

Money

In the forground stands Dante holding his work ‘the Divine Comedy’. (Photo by David Lees/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

Hacking Team successor linked to malware campaign, new ‘Dante’ commercial spyware

Privacy

National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross, then-CEO, Millenium Challenge Corporation, speaks onstage during the 2019 Concordia Annual Summit – Day 2 at Grand Hyatt New York on Sept. 24, in New York City. (Photo by Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Concordia Summit)

National cyber director says U.S. needs to counter Chinese surveillance, push American tech

Policy