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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National Cyber Director Chris Inglis takes off his mask before speaking at a hearing with the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Nov. 16, 2021. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

National Cyber Director Chris Inglis calls for ‘new social contract’ to redistribute risk

Government

An aircraft grounded due to the COVID-19 pandemic, operated by Ryanair, is pictured beyond unused Swissport stairs, on the apron at Manchester Airport in Manchester, north west England on May 1, 2020. (Photo by OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Ransomware spree hitting European oil, transport companies

Threats

International Committee of the Red Cross — A flag of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) flies at the humanitarian organization’s headquarters in Geneva on September 29, 2021. (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

State Department sounds alarm over Red Cross breach

Threats

Rob Silvers — Rob Silvers, right, chats with Deputy Homeland Security Secretary John Tien on Aug. 10, 2021, after Silvers was sworn in as the DHS undersecretary for strategy, policy, and plans at DHS headquarters in Washington, D.C. (DHS photo / Flickr)

DHS assembles Cyber Safety Review Board to imitate fed agency that studies aviation accidents

Policy

wastewater treatment — (Getty images)

Water sector added to Biden administration’s initiative on ICS security

Policy

CISA, DHS, Department of Homeland Security, RSA 2019 — The DHS and CISA booth at the 2019 RSA conference in San Francisco. (Scoop News Group photo)

Bob Kolasky, head of CISA’s National Risk Management Center, leaving agency

Workforce

Gary Gensler, Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, testifies before a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee oversight hearing on the SEC on Sept. 14, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Evelyn Hockstein-Pool/Getty Images)

SEC’s Gensler signals enhancement of cybersecurity, breach disclosure rules for financial sector

Financial

A lawmaker wearing a protective facemask leaves the Ukrainian Parliament, in Kiev, as demonstrators protest against a banking reform during the Parliament’s extraordinary session in Kiev on May 13, 2020. (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

Treasury sanctions Ukrainian officials over operations for Russian FSB

Financial

Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I. — Rep. Jim Langevin speaks April 4, 2019, at the Cybersecurity Leadership Forum presented by Forcepoint and produced by CyberScoop and FedScoop. (CyberScoop)

Congressional cyber heavyweights Langevin, Katko won’t seek reelection

Government