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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Sen. Bill Casssidy, R-La., questions Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. during a Senate Finance Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Sept. 4, 2025. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Bipartisan health care cybersecurity legislation returns to address a cornucopia of issues

Policy

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Intellexa remotely accessed Predator spyware customer systems, investigation finds

Geopolitics

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)

Sean Plankey nomination to lead CISA appears to be over after Thursday vote

Government

An opening section of the forthcoming cybersecurity strategy offers a Trumpian call for a more muscular approach to cyberspace. (Getty Images)

Five-page draft Trump administration cyber strategy targeted for January release

Policy

U.S. Rep. August Pfluger, R-Tex., speaks during a news conference in front of the U.S. Capitol on March 21, 2024. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Legislation would designate ‘critical cyber threat actors,’ direct sanctions against them

Government

In this photo illustration, social media and messaging apps are seen on a mobile phone screen on Nov. 11, 2025 in Istanbul, Turkey. (Photo Illustration by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

CISA alert draws attention to spyware’s targeting of messaging apps

Geopolitics

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This campaign aims to tackle persistent security myths in favor of better advice

Cybersecurity

The SolarWinds Corp. logo is seen at the headquarters in Austin, Texas on April 15, 2021 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via Getty Images)

SEC drops case against SolarWinds tied to monumental breach

Government

In this photo illustration, an NSO Group logo is displayed on a smartphone with stock market percentages on the background. (Photo Illustration by Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

NSO Group argues WhatsApp injunction threatens existence, future U.S. government work

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