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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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European parliament members call for slowdown of Serbia’s EU entry over spyware use

Geopolitics

This aerial photograph shows demonstrators and students as they gather in front of Serbia’s Constitutional Court building during a protest to demand accountability for the Novi Sad railway station tragedy, in Belgrade, on January 12, 2025. Thousands of Serbians protested in the capital Belgrade on January 12, 2025, against corruption and demanding justice for those killed in a train station roof collapse. The demonstrations have been ongoing for two months since a roof in a train station in the northern city of Novi Sad, which had recently undergone restoration work, collapsed on November 1, 2024, and killed 15 people. (Photo by TADIJA ANASTASIJEVIC / AFP via Getty Images)

Pegasus, NoviSpy variant spyware found on devices of Serbian activists

Privacy

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., speaks to reporters following the weekly Democrat Senate policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on May 6, 2025. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

Wyden seeks upgraded NSA security guidance on commercial VPN use

Policy

HOUSTON, TEXAS – FEBRUARY 17: Houston Water Director, Greg Eyerly, leads a tour of The East Water Purification Plant on Monday, Feb. 17, 2025 in Houston. A White House pilot project designed to boost the cybersecurity of water systems was announced on Monday in Texas. (Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

‘Watershed 250’ test program in Texas looks to private sector for water cybersecurity help

Government

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Cyber threats nudge Trump to sign executive order on foreign equipment in U.S. energy infrastructure

Government

The UniFi brand logo on March 5, 2026. (Photo by Joan Cros/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Three 10.0 security flaws fixed across Ubiquiti’s UniFi line

Threats

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Arrested man allegedly impersonated NSA elite hacking unit, Supreme Court chief justice

Government

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Water sector passes, government sector fails attempts to spot and halt simulated CISA attack

Government

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announces a new set of sanctions against Iran, describing them as “an economic D-Day,” in the Cash Room at the Treasury Department on August 24, 2026 in Washington, DC. Bessent threatened Iran in an opinion piece in the Financial Times on Sunday with “the single greatest financial offensive ever”, almost six months after the United States and Israel launched a war against Iran in February. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Treasury sanctions alleged Iranian hackers as part of ‘economic D-Day’

Geopolitics