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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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U.S. House Intelligence Chairman Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) (L) and House Intelligence Ranking Member Jim Himes (D-CT) speak following a briefing with National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan at the U.S. Capitol on February 15, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

House hurtles toward showdown over expiring surveillance tools

Technology

The Microsoft logo is seen at an Experience Center on Fifth Avenue on April 3, 2024, in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Federal government affected by Russian breach of Microsoft

Exclusive

Jonathan Lenzner, chief of staff to FBI Director Chris Wray, and Cynthia Kaiser, deputy assistant director of the FBI’s cyber division, take part in an International Association of Privacy Professionals conference in Washington D.C., on April 3, 2024. (Scoop News Group photo by Tim Starks)

FBI seeks to balance risks, rewards of artificial intelligence

AI

Brandon Wales of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency speaks during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on May 11, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Ivanti-linked breach of CISA potentially affected more than 100,000 individuals

Cybersecurity

A digitally generated image of yellow data server discs organized into circular pattern is seen against on beige background. (Andriy Onufriyenko via GettyImages)

Plan to resuscitate beleaguered vulnerability database draws criticism

Technology

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

Privacy

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

Government

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