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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A cosplayer dressed as the Star Wars character Darth Vader holds a mobile phone displaying a government alert issued to all smartphones to test a system used to warn of life-threatening emergencies at the Scarborough Sci-Fi Convention in Scarborough north-east England on April 23, 2023. (Photo by OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Spyware and zero-day exploits increasingly go hand-in-hand, researchers find

Cybersecurity

Visitors walk past the U.S. Capitol on September 11, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

House-passed data privacy bill doesn’t thrill privacy groups

Government

U.S. President Joe Biden listened to NASA experts on July 14, 2022 as he previews the first full-color image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. (Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA)

Biden’s cyber strategy expected to boost federal role in protecting critical systems from hackers

Geopolitics

Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., is applauded after it is announced he would be the speaker pro tempore and preside over debate during the first session of the 116th Congress at the U.S. Capitol Jan. 3, 2019 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Langevin pushes for critical infrastructure protections in annual defense bill

Policy

The Monument to Party Founding is a monument in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. (Getty Images)

FBI, CISA, Treasury: North Korean hackers taking aim at health care with Maui ransomware

Threats

This picture taken on Sept. 22, 2021 shows honor guards marching in front of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei. Beijing views Taiwan as part of China. (Photo by SAM YEH/AFP via Getty Images)

The Ukraine war could provide a cyberwarfare manual for Chinese generals eyeing Taiwan

Threats

DHS, Department of Homeland Security, CISA, RSA 2019, coronavirus — (Scoop News Group photo)

CISA advisory panel wants agency to act on election disinformation, multifactor authentication

Government

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How CISA’s list of ‘must-patch’ vulnerabilities has expanded both in size, and who’s using it

Government

Two Factor Multi-Factor Authentication Security Concept (Getty Images)

Multifactor authentication could be long haul for some federal agencies, CISA official says

Government