Catch up quick

@ D.C.

🗳️ About six employees at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency who focused on election security were put on administrative leave last week. (Politico)

🧽 The National Security Agency was directed to scrub websites and internal network content for mentions of 27 newly banned words, including "privilege" — which is also a popular security term that describes what level of access people have to key system data. (Popular Information)

❌ The Senate has banned DeepSeek on its networks and work devices, following a similar move in the House. (Axios Pro)

@ Industry

🚧 Meta issued a memo saying privacy teams will no longer be able to delay product releases, adding that some previous decisions were overly "risk-averse." (The Information)

👀 TikTok CEO Shou Chew pitched the White House on a new joint venture with U.S. investors that would oversee the app's data security protocols. (Wall Street Journal)

@ Hackers and hacks

⚠️ Apple released an update fixing a security flaw that "may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals." (TechCrunch)

📰 Lee Enterprises, the parent company of more than 70 daily newspapers across the U.S., says a "cybersecurity event" disrupted its daily operations last week, resulting in website failures and many newspapers not printing. (New York Times)