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

Government

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

Government

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

Geopolitics

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

Ukraine reservist — A member of the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces, the military reserve of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, smokes as he pets a cat on the frontline with Russia-backed separatists near to Avdiivka, southeastern Ukraine, on January 9, 2022. (Photo by ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images)

Cyberattacks on Ukrainian websites come into clearer focus as Russia tensions escalate

Threats

A cutout of an Israeli soldier is seen behind signs pointing out distances to different cities at an army post in Mount Bental in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, on November 28, 2020. (Photo by JALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images)

Ransomware isn’t always about gangs making money. Sometimes it’s about nations manufacturing mayhem.

Threats

Assistant Director of the Cyber Division at the Federal Bureau of Investigation Bryan Vorndran speaks at a hearing with the House Committee on Oversight and Reform in the Rayburn House Office Building on November 16, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

FBI shifting cybercrime focus from arrests, indictments to payment seizures, incident response

Financial

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White House hosts open-source software security summit in light of expansive Log4j flaw

Government