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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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Federal court rules Trump election-focused executive order illegal

Government

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)

Court rules SAVE database illegal, orders it dismantled

Government

President Donald Trump holds up an executive order on creating a White House 2028 Olympics task force after signing it in the South Court Auditorium of the White House on Aug. 5, 2025. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

Trump executive orders speed up post-quantum migration, boost industry

Cybersecurity

Intel agencies: Frontier AI models will reshape cybersecurity faster than expected

Geopolitics

A comparison of an original and deepfake video of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. (Elyse Samuels/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Congress tees up No FAKES Act, aiming at AI-generated deepfakes

Technology

Researchers at Backslash Security pored through update logs for Claude Code, Anthropic’s flagship coding model, finding the company was patching dozens of newly discovered security vulnerabilities in the program between April and early June 2026. (Source: Getty Images)

AI’s constant patching treadmill can be a security problem

Technology

Anthropic announced the release of two new Mythos-class artificial intelligence models designed for cybersecurity and biomedical research, targeting both consumers and businesses. (Photo by Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Cybersecurity experts don’t think Anthropic’s Fable 5 presents a unique threat

Geopolitics

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

Cybersecurity

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

AI