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Security stories on Hacker News range from critical CVE disclosures and supply-chain attacks to privacy policy changes and encryption debates. Practitioners, researchers, and skeptics weigh in with technical depth that mainstream coverage often misses.

This page aggregates the security and privacy discussions worth reading — vulnerability write-ups, incident postmortems, and the community's reaction to new threats and defenses.

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OpenAI just open-sourced Codex Security

github.com · 66 points · 5 comments

AI-found bugs aren't proving any easier to exploit despite the hype

theregister.com · 9 points · 0 comments

DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses'

theregister.com · 20 points · 5 comments

Anthropic A.I. Model Finds Flaws in Tough-to-Crack Encryption Algorithms

nytimes.com · 8 points · 1 comments

There are no fire alarms when it comes to privacy

unsungnovelty.org · 10 points · 0 comments

Fast Remediation Is the New Trust Model (JFrog and OpenAI Zero-Day Findings)

jfrog.com · 51 points · 32 comments

Google's Beyond Zero: Enterprise Security for the AI Era

spawn-queue.acm.org · 136 points · 72 comments

About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

support.apple.com · 187 points · 130 comments

Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms

arstechnica.com · 14 points · 3 comments

Residential Proxies Are a National Security Threat

jacob.gold · 68 points · 68 comments

Apple fixes 75 security issues with your iPhone and 155 for Mac, update now

9to5mac.com · 25 points · 4 comments

How to deal with security implications of running/installing projects?

8 points · 7 comments

Bitcoin trail, Google cookies and Uber Eats orders help tie man to Steam malware

theverge.com · 26 points · 24 comments

Exploiting Volvo/Eicher's fleet platform to gain control over all users/vehicles

eaton-works.com · 36 points · 6 comments

CstWeave – On-device, privacy-first Chrome extension for tab region GIFs

2 points · 0 comments

Sabba, a security bug finder that proves every finding by running it

github.com · 2 points · 1 comments

Your GPS Is Lying to You

medium.com · 8 points · 1 comments

What does GitHub's security team even do?

orchidfiles.com · 77 points · 19 comments

An interactive way to exploit an LLM without going to jail

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

CheapSecurity – Lightweight, Self-Hosted CCTV for Linux SBCs

github.com · 87 points · 17 comments

Tile's security is so bad it's a feature for stalkers

blog.adafruit.com · 153 points · 43 comments

Pope's official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users' info

theregister.com · 31 points · 5 comments

Steam Workshop Map for Meccha Chameleon Used to Deliver Malware

medium.com · 4 points · 1 comments

Who's making money from using/exploiting AI?

9 points · 3 comments

The OpenAI Models That Hacked Hugging Face Were 'Active on the Internet' for Da

wired.com · 5 points · 1 comments

Malware I got infected with (out of curiosity)

gist.github.com · 3 points · 1 comments

Researchers replace downloaded macOS apps with evil twins, Apple shrugs

theregister.com · 15 points · 0 comments

Hackers hijack hotel Wi-Fi DNS to steal Microsoft 365 accounts

bleepingcomputer.com · 7 points · 4 comments

TikTok violating EU regulations on privacy rights, according to an investigation

fastcompany.com · 7 points · 3 comments

Abliterated GLM 5.2 model, fine-tuned for security and red-team work

abliteration.ai · 2 points · 0 comments