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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Google’s Washington, DC, regional office is seen at dusk on August 11, 2024, in Reston, VA. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images)

Google previews cyber ‘disruption unit’ as U.S. government, industry weigh going heavier on offense

Policy

Attendees walk by the Epic Games booth at the 2019 GDC Game Developers Conference on March 20, 2019 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Court ruling in Epic-Google fight could have ‘catastrophic’ cyber consequences, former gov’t officials say

Financial

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., walks to the Senate Chambers in the U.S. Capitol Building on July 28, 2025. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Blistering Wyden letter seeks review of federal court cybersecurity, citing ‘incompetence,’ ‘negligence’

Government

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Here’s what could happen if CISA 2015 expires next month

Government

This photo taken on March 23, 2022 shows the mobile messaging and call service Telegram logo and U.S. instant messaging software Whatsapp logo on a smartphone screen in Moscow. (Photo by AFP)

Russia restricts WhatsApp, Telegram calls, alleging criminal, terrorist activity

Technology

President Donald Trump holds up an executive order on creating a White House 2028 Olympics task force after signing it in the South Court Auditorium of the White House on Aug. 5, 2025. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

The overlooked changes that two Trump executive orders could bring to cybersecurity

Government

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Researchers determine old vulnerabilities pose real-world threat to sensitive data in public clouds

Technology

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)

New National Cyber Director Cairncross faces challenges on policy, bureaucracy, threats

Government

Smoke rises as Israel targets the notorious Evin Prison in north of Tehran, Iran, on June 23, 2025. Evin prison has been known as the place where Iran imprisons mostly political activists, dissidents and journalists. Media reports say that administrative building and the hospital of Evin prison have been damaged, and a number of families of inmates and prison staff have been killed and wounded. (Photo by Nikan / Middle East Images via AFP)

Iranian hackers were more coordinated, aligned during Israel conflict than it seemed

Threats