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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Top cyber feds working toward fresh models of an old mantra: cyber collaboration

Government

Rep. Carolyn Maloney delivers remarks as she participates in a bill enrollment ceremony at the U.S. Capitol on March 17, 2022 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

House panel launches probe of government contracts with identity verification company ID.me

Privacy

LNG plant — Three Chimneys of a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Power Plant System (Getty Images)

Feds warn about foreign government-connected hackers aiming to disrupt vital industrial systems

Threats

Zelenskyy speaks to Finland parliament — Members of parliament applaud following the address via video link of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (seen on screen) at the Finnish Parliament in Helsinki on April 8, 2022. (Photo by EMMI KORHONEN/Lehtikuva/AFP via Getty Images)

Denial-of-service disrupts Finnish government sites during Zelenskyy speech

Threats

U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger, right, speaks with Culpeper Police Chief Chris Jenkins following a press conference highlighting the introduction of the Summer Barrow Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Act at the U.S. Capitol March 29, 2022 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Cybercrime statistics legislation is ready for president’s signature

Money

Joe Biden — President Joe Biden is joined by Vice President Kamala Harris, Office of Management and Budget acting Director Shalanda Young and Congressional leaders as he signs the “Consolidated Appropriations Act” in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on March 15, 2022 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden budget requests big increase for cybersecurity

Money

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, U.S. President Joe Biden, Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and France’s President Emmanuel Macron pose for a G7 leaders’ family photo during a NATO summit on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, at the alliance’s headquarters in Brussels, on March 24, 2022. (Photo by Henry Nicholls – Pool/Getty Images)

NATO, G-7 leaders promise bulwark against retaliatory Russian cyberattacks

Geopolitics

threat landscape hearing — Sens. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and Rob Portman, R-Ohio, speak to Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, right, after a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing Sept. 21, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Greg Nash – Pool/Getty Images)

The long, bumpy road to cyber incident reporting legislation — and the one still ahead

Government

Christopher Wray, FBI, IC3 — FBI Director Christopher Wray speaks during a news conference at the Robert F. Kennedy Main Justice Building on Nov. 8, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

FBI: Cybercrime reports saw ‘unprecedented’ rise last year, costing nearly $7B

Government