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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Sean Plankey, of Pennsylvania, responds to questioning during Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearings to examine his nomination to be Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, of the Department of Homeland Security, in the Dirksen Senate office building, in Washington, DC, on Wednesday July 24, 2025. (Mattie Neretin/CNP/Sipa USA)

Plankey vows to boot China from U.S. supply chain, advocate for CISA budget

Workforce

The National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Data from sensors that detect threats in critical infrastructure networks at the laboratory is sitting unanalyzed after a government contract expired this weekend. (Photo: Jason Laurea/LLNL)

Contract lapse leaves critical infrastructure cybersecurity sensor data unanalyzed at national lab

Geopolitics

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the Russian government via teleconference in Moscow on March 10, 2022. (Photo by MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)

UK sanctions Russian hackers, spies as US weighs its own punishments for Russia

Financial

Daniil Kasatkin at the FIBA World Championships in 2019. Kasatkin has been detained in France on suspicion of working for a ransomware group. (FIBA)

French police arrest Russian pro basketball player on behalf of US over ransomware suspicions

Geopolitics

SimpleImages, Getty Images

Appeals court clears path for El Salvadoran journos to sue spyware maker

Privacy

China and Italy, two flags waving against blue sky. 3d image. Aleksandra Aleshchenko, iStock/Getty Images Plus

Italian authorities arrest Chinese man over Microsoft Exchange Server hack, targeting of COVID-19 researchers

Threats

The Treasury Building in Washington, D.C.; Khaichuin Sim, Getty Images

Treasury slaps sanctions on people, companies tied to North Korean IT worker schemes

Government

U.S. President Donald Trump, joined by Republican lawmakers, signs the One, Big Beautiful Bill Act into law during an Independence Day military family picnic on the South Lawn of the White House on July 4, 2025. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

GOP domestic policy bill includes money for military cyber

Government

June 12, 2012: Close up to FBI website through a magnifying glass on the laptop. brightstars, iStock/GettyImages

Top FBI cyber official: Salt Typhoon ‘largely contained’ in telecom networks

Government