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Derek B. Johnson

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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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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

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)

Trump moves to fire Democratic FTC commissioners

Government

Google’s acquisition of Wiz is the largest the tech titan has ever made. (Wiz)

Google acquires Wiz for $32 billion

Money

Cloudflare headquarters in San Francisco. (Getty Images)

Cloudflare rolls out post-quantum encryption for enterprise users

Technology

mobile device management — (Getty)

California’s legal push on geolocation data collection must take aim at the right targets, privacy experts say

Privacy

The Stop CSAM Act, first introduced in 2023 by Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., (above) and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., would impose several new requirements on companies to prevent the hosting and distribution of child sexual abuse material on their platforms.

Legislative push for child online safety runs afoul of encryption advocates (again)

Cybersecurity

Bulazel mentioned the energy sector in particular, given the potential for hackers to turn off the power in the United States. It’s a sector that relies in large measure on supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems to monitor and control industrial processes. (Image Credit: AndreyPopov via Getty Images)

Multiple vulnerabilities found in ICONICS industrial SCADA software

Technology