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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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The entrance of 2514 Eisenhower Avenue, where the National Science Foundation is also located, is seen on July 8, 2025 in Alexandria, Virginia. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Open-source security group pulls out of U.S. grant, citing DEI restrictions

Government

Researchers poke holes in OpenAI’s new browser as standards bodies fear U.S. businesses are “sleepwalking” into an AI governance crisis. (Photo illustration by Cheng Xin/Getty

Exclusive: OpenAI’s Atlas browser — and others — can be tricked by manipulated web content

AI

The Foreign Robocall Elimination Act would create a new task force and give policymakers granular insight into the notoriously complex telecommunications ecosystem.(Image via Getty)

Robocalling task force bill advances in Senate

Government

The Digital Childhood Institute, which filed a complaint with the FTC, is part of a newer crop of online safety groups focused on shaping tech policy around conservative political beliefs. (Image Via Getty)

Apple and Google challenged by parents’ rights coalition on youth privacy protections

Privacy

A satellite over the U.S. East Coast. (Pixabay)

Researchers find a startlingly cheap way to steal your secrets from space

Government

The Chinese hacking group gained persistent access to a popular mapping tool by turning one of its features into a webshell and hardcoding access, according to ReliaQuest. (Image Via Getty)

Flax Typhoon can turn your own software against you

Cybersecurity

The bill likely won’t get far in a GOP-controlled Congress, but proponents described it as part of a broader effort to push back through constitutional institutions. (Image Via Getty)

Dems introduce bill to halt mass voter roll purges

Government

An attendee holds a “Register to Vote” sign at Fashion For Our Future March on September 06, 2024 in Herald Square, New York City. In a court filing, the groups argued court action was needed to prevent permanent privacy harm from the government’s “illegal and secretive consolidation of millions of Americans’ sensitive personal data.” (Photo by Steven Ferdman/Getty Images)

Voting groups ask court for immediate halt to Trump admin’s SAVE database overhaul

Election Security

Despite fears from privacy advocates, officials from the ruling party said mass-scanning proposals like Chat Control should be “taboo in a constitutional state.” (Image via Getty)

German government says it will oppose EU mass-scanning proposal

Geopolitics