Security stories
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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RSS feed for SecurityArch Linux disables AUR package adoption to stop malware flood
bleepingcomputer.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Harvesting SSH Credentials: Insights from My Honeypot Network
uphillsecurity.com · 45 points · 31 comments
US bank places trust in ransomware crew that promised to delete its data
theregister.com · 14 points · 1 comments
Coldcard's $38M (so far) exploit shakes faith in self-custody
coindesk.com · 30 points · 30 comments
Voris: privacy-first analytics for the AI-influenced web
voris.ai · 4 points · 0 comments
Rails patches critical Active Storage flaw with RCE potential
bleepingcomputer.com · 5 points · 0 comments
Scanning 7.6 Petabytes of HuggingFace Training Data for Secrets
trufflesecurity.com · 35 points · 10 comments
The Screen Act Threatens Privacy Far Beyond Adult Websites
eff.org · 12 points · 1 comments
Protecting the Nation's Communications Systems from Cybersecurity Threats
federalregister.gov · 3 points · 0 comments
Hacker uses DeepSeek AI to autonomously attack vulnerable servers
bleepingcomputer.com · 7 points · 1 comments
The Screen Act Threatens Privacy Far Beyond Adult Websites
eff.org · 6 points · 0 comments
RØØT – Offline security workspace for labs, CVEs, and tooling
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
New Defcon Badges Pack a Unique Open-Source Chip That Doubles as a Security Key
wired.com · 67 points · 11 comments
Some Changes to Gnome Security Tracking
blogs.gnome.org · 4 points · 0 comments
Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder
theregister.com · 10 points · 0 comments
I built a cross-browser extension that controls fingerprinting surfaces
privacything.com · 19 points · 10 comments
AI Security Breaches, the problems and it's causes
raylinement.substack.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
blog.google · 550 points · 609 comments
Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations
anthropic.com · 240 points · 199 comments
An LLM-assisted security review of GlobaLeaks: 41 findings for $3,140
isgroup.biz · 8 points · 5 comments
Noisegate – a differential-privacy gateway for untrusted AI agents
github.com · 19 points · 0 comments
Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
krebsonsecurity.com · 808 points · 552 comments
North Korea's elite hackers turned on their own government – and got caught
bitdefender.com · 10 points · 0 comments
FTC Acts Against Hims & Hers for Deceptive and Unlawful Privacy Practices
ftc.gov · 10 points · 3 comments
AI-generated, Lean-verified proof of Collatz conjecture exploits Lean kernel bug
infosec.exchange · 16 points · 1 comments
Cisco FMC static credential vulnerability exploited as a zero-day
sec.cloudapps.cisco.com · 13 points · 3 comments
Is Cloudflare classifying opencode.ai as malware?
3 points · 4 comments
A pharmacy chain in Vermont implemented AI for efficiency
vtdigger.org · 40 points · 52 comments
Flume Water Monitor 915 MHz Security Is Pretty Good
waveformsecurity.com · 41 points · 34 comments
Copirate 365: Plundering in the Depths of Microsoft Copilot (CVE-2026-24299)
embracethered.com · 8 points · 1 comments