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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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A pipe carrying potable water is seen in a water purification plant. (Getty Images)

CISA wants critical infrastructure to operate ‘weeks to months’ in isolation during conflict

Cybersecurity

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A college student is suing a dating app that allegedly used her TikTok videos to target men in her dormitory

Cybersecurity

Brendan Carr, Chair of the Federal Communications Commission, said under current rules some telecoms “do the bare minimum” to verify callers and have “become complicit in illegal robocalling schemes.” (Image Source: Getty)

FCC tightens KYC rules for telecoms, closes loophole for banned foreign services

Cybersecurity

Jay Harless, director of human development and Sasha Muth, deputy director of human development at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency speak at the Workday Federal Forum presented by Scoop News Group. (Image Source: Scoop News Group)

Spy agency officials say job loss anxiety, moving fast ‘safely’ among top challenges in AI workforce overhaul

AI

Gartner data indicates that “regulators are shifting their efforts away from awareness to full scale enforcement,” marking a significant shift from even the last few years in how aggressively states are investigating and penalizing companies for privacy law violations. (Image Source: Getty)

U.S. companies hit with record fines for privacy in 2025

Cybersecurity

Arik Ashkenazi, chief engineer at the Ein Netafim wastewater treatment plant, walks between water clarifier basins at the facility in Israel’s southern Red Sea port city of Eilat on July 13, 2023. Hemmed in between the Red Sea and a desert, isolated from the rest of Israel and with no natural freshwater, Eilat’s drinking water is a combination of desalinated groundwater and sea water. After its domestic use turns it into sewage, it is treated and then allocated to farmers, enabling the arid region to support an agricultural industry. While Eilat used to be the exception in Israel’s water management, it is now more of a prototype for the country and perhaps to the world. (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP) (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images)

Dragos: Despite AI use, new malware targeting water plants is ‘hype’

AI

UNITED STATES – NOVEMBER 18: Rep. Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., speaks during a news conference with House Republican leadership in the Capitol Visitor Center on Tuesday, November 18, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

House Republicans roll out national privacy bill

Government

CANADA – 2026/04/08: In this photo illustration, the Google Antigravity logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. (Photo Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Vuln in Google’s Antigravity AI agent manager could escape sandbox, give attackers remote code execution

Technology

UNITED STATES – APRIL 14: Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson, left, and Commissioner Mark Meador, testify during the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing titled titled “Oversight of the Federal Trade Commission,” in Russell building on Wednesday, April 15, 2026. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

The FTC’s AI portfolio is about to get bigger

AI