Jenna McLaughlin
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I'm Jenna, NPR's on-air cybersecurity correspondent.
I've been covering technology and national security for ten years.
Listen to All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Up First, and more on npr.org to hear from me.
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I'm Jenna, NPR's on-air cybersecurity correspondent.
I've been covering technology and national security for ten years.
Listen to All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Up First, and more on npr.org to hear from me.
I want to hear from you! All tips welcome.
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Short-term renewal of cyber information sharing law appears in bill to end shutdown
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Short-term renewal of cyber information sharing law appears in bill to end shutdown
An expired 2015 law that gives companies liability protection when they share cyberthreat information with the federal government would be renewed through January 30 under Senate legislation to end th...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Short-term renewal of cyber information sharing law appears in bill to end shutdown
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JUST IN: Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she will not run for re-election, ending her historic tenure in Congress
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi will not seek reelection
A shrewd political strategist, California Rep. Nancy Pelosi has had an unprecedented career in Congress. First elected in a special election in 1987, Pelosi went on to become one of the most effective leaders of the Democratic party.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
JUST IN: Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she will not run for re-election, ending her historic tenure in Congress
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I like to think that I personally ruined the workplace.
November 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I like to think that I personally ruined the workplace.
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“This case, ladies and gentleman of the jury, is about a sandwich.”
Closing arguments from the defense in the DC sandwich guy case are now underway.
Closing arguments from the defense in the DC sandwich guy case are now underway.
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
“This case, ladies and gentleman of the jury, is about a sandwich.”
Closing arguments from the defense in the DC sandwich guy case are now underway.
Closing arguments from the defense in the DC sandwich guy case are now underway.
"Ultimately, America has capability, it just needs to remove the chaos that surrounds it.
The challenge before policymakers is not to invent new talent or technology, but to create the legal, institutional, and market infrastructure that enables growth," authors conclude.
The challenge before policymakers is not to invent new talent or technology, but to create the legal, institutional, and market infrastructure that enables growth," authors conclude.
Interesting paper out of Dartmouth about private sector's role in U.S. offensive cyber landscape. Recommends a national offensive cyber strategy and a pilot program for private sector access to "low-risk" targets like crypto scammers and ransomware operators:
sergeybratus.gitlab.io/papers/Dartm...
sergeybratus.gitlab.io/papers/Dartm...
sergeybratus.gitlab.io
October 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
"Ultimately, America has capability, it just needs to remove the chaos that surrounds it.
The challenge before policymakers is not to invent new talent or technology, but to create the legal, institutional, and market infrastructure that enables growth," authors conclude.
The challenge before policymakers is not to invent new talent or technology, but to create the legal, institutional, and market infrastructure that enables growth," authors conclude.
Interesting paper out of Dartmouth about private sector's role in U.S. offensive cyber landscape. Recommends a national offensive cyber strategy and a pilot program for private sector access to "low-risk" targets like crypto scammers and ransomware operators:
sergeybratus.gitlab.io/papers/Dartm...
sergeybratus.gitlab.io/papers/Dartm...
sergeybratus.gitlab.io
October 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Interesting paper out of Dartmouth about private sector's role in U.S. offensive cyber landscape. Recommends a national offensive cyber strategy and a pilot program for private sector access to "low-risk" targets like crypto scammers and ransomware operators:
sergeybratus.gitlab.io/papers/Dartm...
sergeybratus.gitlab.io/papers/Dartm...
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New: The recent layoffs in CISA's Stakeholder Engagement Division have virtually shuttered SED, eliminating teams focused on critical infrastructure support, nationwide partnerships, and international coordination.
My story with details cuts and impacts: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-st...
My story with details cuts and impacts: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-st...
October 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
New: The recent layoffs in CISA's Stakeholder Engagement Division have virtually shuttered SED, eliminating teams focused on critical infrastructure support, nationwide partnerships, and international coordination.
My story with details cuts and impacts: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-st...
My story with details cuts and impacts: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-st...
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NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
October 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
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Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go."
The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:
The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go."
The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:
The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:
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it is impossible to understate the influence susan had on this network & the work that we do every day. truly one of the nicest people around; always encouraged people to be themselves; one of a kind.
October 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
it is impossible to understate the influence susan had on this network & the work that we do every day. truly one of the nicest people around; always encouraged people to be themselves; one of a kind.
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news from the network:
npr founding mother susan stamberg has died, aged 87
npr founding mother susan stamberg has died, aged 87
NPR 'founding mother' Susan Stamberg has died
Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died.
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October 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
news from the network:
npr founding mother susan stamberg has died, aged 87
npr founding mother susan stamberg has died, aged 87
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This one's a wild/messy one: Cyber giant F5, which serves most of the Fortune 500, said unknown government hackers had 'long term' access to its network:
• stole source code, some customer data
• accessed undisclosed vulns in BIG-IP
• DOJ allowed F5 to delay public notice citing national security
• stole source code, some customer data
• accessed undisclosed vulns in BIG-IP
• DOJ allowed F5 to delay public notice citing national security
Cyber giant F5 Networks says government hackers had 'long-term' access to its systems, stole code and customer data | TechCrunch
The company, which provides cybersecurity defenses to most of the Fortune 500, said the DOJ allowed it to delay notifying the public on national security grounds.
techcrunch.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This one's a wild/messy one: Cyber giant F5, which serves most of the Fortune 500, said unknown government hackers had 'long term' access to its network:
• stole source code, some customer data
• accessed undisclosed vulns in BIG-IP
• DOJ allowed F5 to delay public notice citing national security
• stole source code, some customer data
• accessed undisclosed vulns in BIG-IP
• DOJ allowed F5 to delay public notice citing national security
Also repeated DHS's Kristi Noem's line about cuts at CISA since the new administration being about getting back to the "core mission" and moving away from a focus on things like "censorship."
"It's really what we should be doing."
"It's really what we should be doing."
On CISA media call just now to discuss the F5 hack and source code breach, CISA staffer interrupted the discussion to blame the Democrats for the government shutdown and forcing workers to work without pay
October 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Also repeated DHS's Kristi Noem's line about cuts at CISA since the new administration being about getting back to the "core mission" and moving away from a focus on things like "censorship."
"It's really what we should be doing."
"It's really what we should be doing."
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I'm so proud to have colleagues like Tom Bowman -- who in this opinion piece lays out why the new Pentagon press restrictions are so dangerous. www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...
Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...
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October 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I'm so proud to have colleagues like Tom Bowman -- who in this opinion piece lays out why the new Pentagon press restrictions are so dangerous. www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...
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A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...
October 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
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White House made good on threats to fire workers during shutdown, and CISA was among those that lost workers - 176 were fired on Friday. A CISA spokesperson told Metacurity that CISA under Biden admin focused on "censorship, branding, and electioneering. This is part of getting CISA back on mission"
The White House fired 176 CISA employees on Friday, with more layoffs feared
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters leaked 5m Qantas, 23m Vietnam Air customers' records, Spanish cops dismantle GXC Team, Dutch gov't warns of China's Nexperia security risks, Breach of crypto betting platform...
www.metacurity.com
October 13, 2025 at 12:31 PM
White House made good on threats to fire workers during shutdown, and CISA was among those that lost workers - 176 were fired on Friday. A CISA spokesperson told Metacurity that CISA under Biden admin focused on "censorship, branding, and electioneering. This is part of getting CISA back on mission"
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exsqueeze me?
Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."
October 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
exsqueeze me?
Also, CISA staffers I see you...know you've been having a rough go of it since DOGE came on the scene, from disinfo work to the Cyber Safety Review Board:
www.npr.org/2025/02/06/n..., www.npr.org/2025/02/11/n...
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CISA staffers offered deferred resignations, extending broader cybersecurity fears
Staff at the key cybersecurity agency were initially excluded from government efforts to leave their jobs, but then on Wednesday they were given deferred resignation offers with just hours to decide.
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October 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Also, CISA staffers I see you...know you've been having a rough go of it since DOGE came on the scene, from disinfo work to the Cyber Safety Review Board:
www.npr.org/2025/02/06/n..., www.npr.org/2025/02/11/n...
www.npr.org/2025/02/06/n..., www.npr.org/2025/02/11/n...
Anecdotally have been hearing for months that law enforcement officers and investigators of all stripes, from FBI cyber to CISA folk, have been shunted into immigration work/raids.
Would love to hear more on this trend.
Will keep you anonymous/protect your identity.
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Would love to hear more on this trend.
Will keep you anonymous/protect your identity.
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October 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Anecdotally have been hearing for months that law enforcement officers and investigators of all stripes, from FBI cyber to CISA folk, have been shunted into immigration work/raids.
Would love to hear more on this trend.
Will keep you anonymous/protect your identity.
Signal: JennaMcLaughlin.54
Would love to hear more on this trend.
Will keep you anonymous/protect your identity.
Signal: JennaMcLaughlin.54
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Confirming Bloomberg reporting - Employees across various DHS units have been marked for reassignments to agencies focused on Trump-era border security and deportation work, and could be dismissed if they don’t comply, multiple people familiar tell me:
www.nextgov.com/people/2025/...
www.nextgov.com/people/2025/...
Hundreds of DHS staff face reassignments to border security, immigration
Affected workers — including people in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency — have been given a week to respond or risk termination from federal service.
www.nextgov.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Confirming Bloomberg reporting - Employees across various DHS units have been marked for reassignments to agencies focused on Trump-era border security and deportation work, and could be dismissed if they don’t comply, multiple people familiar tell me:
www.nextgov.com/people/2025/...
www.nextgov.com/people/2025/...
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repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
October 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
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Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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October 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...
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President Trump is floating the possibility that some of the roughly 600,000 furloughed federal workers could be denied back pay once the government reopens, despite a 2019 law intended to ensure federal employees are compensated after a shutdown.
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President Trump is floating the possibility that some of the roughly 600,000 furloughed federal workers could be denied back pay once the government reopens, despite a 2019 law intended to ensure federal employees are compensated after a shutdown.
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White House floats no back pay for some furloughed federal workers despite 2019 law
A new draft White House memo suggests a 2019 law signed by President Trump that guarantees federal employees get paid after a shutdown ends would not apply to furloughed workers.
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October 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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President Trump is floating the possibility that some of the roughly 600,000 furloughed federal workers could be denied back pay once the government reopens, despite a 2019 law intended to ensure federal employees are compensated after a shutdown.
w/@cgrisales.bsky.social
President Trump is floating the possibility that some of the roughly 600,000 furloughed federal workers could be denied back pay once the government reopens, despite a 2019 law intended to ensure federal employees are compensated after a shutdown.
w/@cgrisales.bsky.social
It's astounding how many salespeople think I work for NPR's security team and try to hawk their tools to me.
Please, please, please, stop.
Please, please, please, stop.
October 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
It's astounding how many salespeople think I work for NPR's security team and try to hawk their tools to me.
Please, please, please, stop.
Please, please, please, stop.