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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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Eric Goldstein, executive assistant director for cybersecurity at CISA, speaks during the Elastic Public Sector Summit 2024. (Scoop News Group photo)

Top CISA official Eric Goldstein to depart agency next month

Workforce

Rainbow over the parliament building in Poland. MikeMareen, iStock / Getty Images Plus

Inside Poland’s groundbreaking effort to reckon with spyware abuses

Technology

Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President at the Microsoft Corporation, arrives for a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law oversight hearing to examine legislating artificial intelligence (AI), on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on September 12, 2023. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

House panel leaders call on Microsoft president to testify over security shortcomings

Cybersecurity

Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines arrives for testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee May 2, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Top spy official releases principles on intel agency use of info bought from data brokers

Government

Harry Coker testifies during his confirmation hearing to become the national cyber director before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Nov. 2, 2023, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

ONCD report: ‘Fundamental transformation’ in cyber, tech drove 2023 risks

Government

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Pro-Russia hacktivists attacking vital tech in water and other sectors, agencies say

Threats

A view of the Verizon logo on Feb. 22, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Kena Betancur/VIEWpress)

Exploitation of vulnerabilities almost tripled as a source of data breaches last year

Cybersecurity

CISA Director Jen Easterly is sworn-in as she testifies before a House committee on Capitol Hill on Jan. 31, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Easterly appeals to Congress on CISA funding, citing Chinese threats to critical infrastructure

Cybersecurity

Harry Coker testifies during his confirmation hearing for national cyber director before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Nov. 2, 2023. in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Agencies to turn toward ‘skill-based hiring’ for cyber and tech jobs, ONCD says

Workforce