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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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Arch 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