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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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AI Security Leaderboard – comparing cyber and CBRN safeguards

leaderboard.far.ai · 4 points · 0 comments

Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit)

prilik.com · 207 points · 170 comments

Arbitrary file read and remote code execution in Active Storage

discuss.rubyonrails.org · 5 points · 0 comments

OpenAI's rogue models roamed the internet for 4 days and staged a second attack

politico.com · 4 points · 0 comments

ButterClaw – AI agent runtime security, SIGKILL on breach, no cloud

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Disrupting supply chain attacks on NPM and GitHub Actions

github.blog · 89 points · 49 comments

Dhan360 – Privacy-first portfolio analytics for Indian investors

dhan360.in · 3 points · 1 comments

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

theregister.com · 14 points · 1 comments

National Security Determination Threat Posed by Foreign-Produced Robotic Devices [pdf]

fcc.gov · 76 points · 73 comments

Get a security assessment of MCP servers directly from your terminal

index.canopii.dev · 2 points · 0 comments

Code Security Skills Codex-Inspired Workflows Packaged for Claude Code

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Verifiable receipts for firmware CVE reproduction

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Codex Security

github.com · 596 points · 229 comments

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

theregister.com · 16 points · 0 comments

DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses'

theregister.com · 75 points · 54 comments

Proofs that age verification and e-voting do not require sacrificing any privacy

magarshak.com · 3 points · 0 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 · 12 points · 0 comments

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

jfrog.com · 60 points · 37 comments

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

spawn-queue.acm.org · 160 points · 83 comments

About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

support.apple.com · 211 points · 150 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 · 82 points · 92 comments

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

9to5mac.com · 33 points · 5 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 · 44 points · 45 comments

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

eaton-works.com · 162 points · 61 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 · 10 points · 1 comments