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. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., walks towards a closed-door briefing with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Nov. 5, 2025 on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Tom Brenner/Getty Images)

Senate Intel chair urges national cyber director to safeguard against open-source software threats

Geopolitics

Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security U.S. Rep. Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., talks to Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem prior to a hearing in the Cannon House Office Building on Dec. 11, 2025. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Key lawmaker says Congress likely to kick can down road on cyber information sharing law

Policy

Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., conduct the House Judiciary Committee hearing titled “Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” featuring testimony by FBI Director Kash Patel in Rayburn building on Sept. 17, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Warrant requirements, Democratic worries could factor into spy law renewal debate

Policy

Aerial view of the Pentagon building in Arlington, Va., on Oct. 22, 2025. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Defense bill addresses secure phones, AI training, cyber troop mental health

Government

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

Government

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

Cybersecurity