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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From left, Tanium’s Sam Kinch, GDIT’s Matt Hayden, the Commerce Department’s Ryan Higgins, and CISA’s Chris Butera take part in a panel discussion at a GDIT event on Sept. 4, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Scoop News Group photo)

AI can help track an ever-growing body of vulnerabilities, CISA official says

AI

Food and drink abstract with many Artificial flavors, Food additives, Food coloring, Preservatives, and artificial sweeteners. Hailshadow, iStock / Getty Images Plus

CISA guide seeks a unified approach to software ‘ingredients lists’

Government

(L-R) Rep. Nick LaLota R-N.Y., Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. and Rep. Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., listen during a hearing with the House Committee on Homeland Security on Jan. 30, 2024. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

House panel approves cyber information sharing, grant legislation as expiration deadlines loom

AI

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

CISA taps Nicholas Andersen for executive assistant director of cybersecurity

Government

A hacker with China’s national flag in background. (Getty Images)

Top FBI official says Chinese reliance on domestic firms for hacking is a weakness

Cybersecurity

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Salt Typhoon hacking campaign goes beyond previously disclosed targets, world cyber agencies say

Threats

Google’s Washington, DC, regional office is seen at dusk on August 11, 2024, in Reston, VA. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images)

Google previews cyber ‘disruption unit’ as U.S. government, industry weigh going heavier on offense

Geopolitics

Attendees walk by the Epic Games booth at the 2019 GDC Game Developers Conference on March 20, 2019 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Court ruling in Epic-Google fight could have ‘catastrophic’ cyber consequences, former gov’t officials say

Privacy

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., walks to the Senate Chambers in the U.S. Capitol Building on July 28, 2025. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Blistering Wyden letter seeks review of federal court cybersecurity, citing ‘incompetence,’ ‘negligence’

Government