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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 screenshot of a website seized by the U.S. Departments of Justice and Homeland Security for publishing nonconsensual deepfake porn of real individuals, including celebrities and public figures. (Image Source: Department of Justice)

US, France, and Italian authorities shut down massive deepfake porn site

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The Chinese national flag flies outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing on July 26, 2023. (Photo by GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images)

OpenAI: ‘Likely’ Chinese influence operation tried to use ChatGPT to stir debate on data centers

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In this photo illustration, the Anthropic logo is seen on a smartphone. (Photo Illustration by Algi Febri Sugita/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Anthropic’s new model is Mythos on a leash

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New research from DTEX details how the increasing integration of AI agents into businesses is making it easier than ever for insiders – malicious or otherwise – to put sensitive data at risk. (Image Source: Getty)

Your AI agent could become your biggest insider threat

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An opening section of the forthcoming cybersecurity strategy offers a Trumpian call for a more muscular approach to cyberspace. (Getty Images)

Trump administration releases scaled-back AI executive order

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Mesa County Clerk and Colorado Republican candidate for secretary of state Tina Peters reacts to early election returns during a primary night watch party at the Wide Open Saloon on June 28, 2022 in Sedalia, Colorado. (Photo by Marc Piscotty/Getty Images)

Tina Peters, convicted in election-security breach, emerges defiant and vows legal fight

Cybersecurity

A voter casts a ballot in a drop box outside the Union Market Super Vote Center during early voting in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, October 28, 2020. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

USPS moving forward with mail-in ballot changes as courts weigh Trump’s election order

Cybersecurity

US President Donald Trump (L) speaks, flanked by US Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent, during a roundtable discussion on his “no tax on tips” policy at the AC Hotel Las Vegas Symphony Park in Las Vegas, Nevada, on April 16, 2026. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump postpones executive order focused on AI security

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Meet Rampart and Clarity, Microsoft’s new red team combo AI agents

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