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Derek B. Johnson

CyberScoop

Derek B. Johnson is a reporter at CyberScoop, where his beat includes cybersecurity, elections and the federal government. Prior to that, he has provided award-winning coverage of cybersecurity news across the public and private sectors for various publications since 2017. Derek has a bachelor’s degree in print journalism from Hofstra University in New York and a master’s degree in public policy from George Mason University in Virginia.

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Illustration shows the ChatGPT logo on a smartphone in Washington, DC, on March 15. (Photo by Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images)

OpenAI expands Trusted Access for Cyber program with new GPT 5.4 Cyber model

AI

Space Force official touts AI’s impact on cyber compliance

AI

Anthropic’s Project Glasswing website is displayed on a smartphone screen in this photo illustration in Brussels, Belgium, on April 12, 2026. Governments and financial institutions are reviewing potential cybersecurity risks from the company’s advanced AI model, which has identified thousands of software vulnerabilities but is restricted over misuse concerns. (Photo Illustration by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Here’s how cyber heavyweights in the US and UK are dealing with Claude Mythos

AI

(L-R) U.S. President Donald Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick look on as White House artificial intelligence (AI) and crypto czar David Sacks speaks in the Oval Office of the White House on December 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump signed an executive order that curbs states’ ability to regulate AI. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Commerce setting up new AI export regime to push adoption of ‘American AI’ abroad

Uncategorized

Visitors look at China Telecom’s quantum computing at the China Telecom stand at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre in Shanghai, China, on June 19, 2025, during the first day of the Mobile World Conference. (Photo by Ying Tang/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Why is the timeline to quantum-proof everything constantly shrinking?

Cybersecurity

WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 09: U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) looks on as U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks to reporters following a Senate Democratic policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on December 09, 2025 in Washington, DC. The senators discussed a variety of topics including a vote expected this week on a Democratic proposal to extend expiring Obamacare subsidies. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

Wyden warns Social Security chief: Trump’s voter database is ‘blatant voter suppression’

Government

“Akira” art and animation cells at the The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Presents Special Screening of “Akira” at Samuel Goldwyn Theater on December 02, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images)

Akira ransomware group can achieve initial access to data encryption in less than an hour

Research

A new report from the Brennan Center for Justice says the Trump administration has foreshadowed plans to meddle with mail-in voting, voter rolls and much more. (Image by Anna Moneymaker via Getty Images).

White House executive order purports to limit mail-in voting, mandate federal voter lists

Government

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Attack on axios software developer tool threatens widespread compromises

Ransomware