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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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Cyber Command touts AI-driven gains in cybersecurity, network monitoring

Cybersecurity

ransomware healthcare — The healthcare sector has seen enterprises both large and small shut down due to ransomware attacks. (Getty Images)

Dispersed responsibility, lack of asset inventory is causing gaps in medical device cybersecurity

Government

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries speak at a press conference on Feb. 4, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Democratic groups sue to block Trump administration’s elections order

Election Security

A Texas delegate holds up a sign as US Representative from Texas Monica De La Cruz speaks during the third day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 17, 2024. Days after he survived an assassination attempt Donald Trump won formal nomination as the Republican presidential candidate and picked Ohio US Senator J.D. Vance for running mate. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

DOJ charges hacker for 2021 Texas GOP website defacement

Uncategorized

FTC Commissioners Rebecca Slaughter, left, and Alvaro Bedoya, right, sit behind FTC Chair Lina Khan as she testifies before the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on July 13, 2023 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Democratic FTC Commissioners file lawsuit against Trump over attempted firings

Government

A semiconductor silicon wafer being tested. (Getty Images)

Commerce limits 19 Chinese, Taiwanese companies from buying U.S. tech

Geopolitics

An official election ballot sits on a table as residents vote using an absentee or mail-in ballot on October 15, 2024 in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Registered voters in Pennsylvania can vote “On Demand” by requesting, a mail-in or absentee ballot filing it out and dropping it off all in one visit to their county election office or other designated location. (Photo by Hannah Beier/Getty Images)

Trump issues executive order seeking greater federal control of elections

Government

The logo of the DNA testing firm 23andMe is seen on a facade of a building in Mountain View, California, October 28, 2018. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

As 23andMe declares bankruptcy, privacy advocates sound alarm about DNA data

Privacy

WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 31: Brendan Carr, Commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) testifies during a House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee hearing on March 31, 2022 in Washington, DC. The subcommittee held a hearing on oversight of the FCC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

FCC’s Carr alleges Chinese companies are making ‘end run’ around Chinese telecom bans, announces investigation

Government