Jenna McLaughlin
speaker
265 appearances
42 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 10 Sep
Jenna McLaughlin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Mayor George understands that small towns can now be swept up in geopolitical conflicts.
Iran has targeted U.S.
critical infrastructure before to send a message that its hackers can impact American citizens in their homes.
Jen McLaughlin, NPR News.
Iranian actors have for several years been trying to find vulnerable systems, particularly in industrial controls in U.S.
critical infrastructure, to sort of mess around with them.
Low-level stuff, not super sophisticated.
They might get in.
They might log somebody out of their system.
They might deface the display.
They've done that before.
I think that was with the Unitronic systems.
There was another incident in Al-Qaeda, Pennsylvania.
So they have a history of this behavior.
According to multiple cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR, there's evidence that bad actors have been scanning the internet in recent weeks, looking for insecure industrial control systems.
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Those devices are used in critical infrastructure, from water to power.
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Michael Crean of cybersecurity firm SonicWall says his company has seen broad opportunistic attacks on this technology explode in recent months, highlighting the risk of connecting these devices to the internet.
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The timing suggests they were likely motivated by U.S.
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strikes.
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Jen McLaughlin, NPR News.
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