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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satellite cybersecurity — A bird takes flight as a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the NROL-87 spy satellite payload for the National Reconnaissance Office launches from the SLC-4E launch pad at Vandenberg U.S. Space Force Base on Feb. 2, 2022 in Lompoc, California. (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

CISA, FBI tell satellite communications network owners to watch out for hacks after Ukraine attack

Technology

Congress, lawmakers, U.S. Capitol Building, incident reporting, CISA — The U.S. Capitol is seen in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 22, 2018. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Major cyber incident reporting requirement, CISA budget hike on precipice of becoming law

Government

Cyberspace Solarium Commission — 1920s interior, solarium. (Getty Images)

The Cyberspace Solarium Commission pushed some major policies into law. So what now?

Threats

Donated childrens shoes are seen on a coach as part of the ‘Patrol. Ukraine Crisis Humanitarian Aid Convoy’ in Sevenoaks, southeast of London on March 4, 2022. (Photo by BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden administration seeks money to bolster Ukraine war-related cybersecurity at home, abroad

Government

Gary Peters, Brandon Wales — Brandon Wales, now-executive director of CISA, greets Sen. Gary Peters, left, at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing May 11, 2021. (Photo by Sarah Silbiger-Pool/Getty Images)

Proposal for industries to report big cyberattacks, ransomware payments wins Senate approval

Government

US chip maker Nvidia says hackers breached company, stole data

Threats

Thierry Breton, disinformation — EU Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton — who is pressuring social media companies to counter Russia’s disinformation — gives a speech on Feb. 8, 2022 in Brussels, Belgium. (Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)

Facebook, Twitter, Google move to intercept Russian propaganda, disinformation about Ukraine

Geopolitics

muddywater — (Getty Images)

FBI, CISA, Cyber Command take aim at cyber-espionage by Iran’s MuddyWater group

Threats

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Another round of ‘wiper’ malware appears in Ukrainian networks

Threats