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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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Google hit with $463M fine for EU location data rule breach

abcnews.com · 12 points · 0 comments

OSS, security and Funding: libjpeg-turbo

6 points · 2 comments

OpenAI's Sam Altman to Brief UN Security Council Next Week

reuters.com · 48 points · 69 comments

We got a cybersecurity expert to hack this BYD. It was too easy

abc.net.au · 20 points · 4 comments

Google Pixel phones pwned in zero-click attacks

theregister.com · 21 points · 1 comments

BreachScanner – Check if your email has been in data breaches

github.com · 3 points · 3 comments

Four AI lab breaches were caused by a single underlying issue, Irregular says

thenextweb.com · 9 points · 3 comments

Claude couldn't hack OpenAI. Then Anthropic shipped Opus 5

thenewstack.io · 8 points · 1 comments

Google's Gemini AI hacked three companies in security test

bbc.co.uk · 16 points · 13 comments

An OSS Python dependency scanner for exploited, unmaintained packages

github.com · 3 points · 5 comments

U.S. Has Reached Security Deal on Greenland

nytimes.com · 8 points · 2 comments

Trump says US and Denmark have reached new security agreement in Greenland

politico.com · 8 points · 0 comments

OpenAI hacked by small team of white hat security researchers

venturebeat.com · 4 points · 1 comments

US and Denmark reach deal over Greenland security

bbc.co.uk · 34 points · 8 comments

Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue

koreajoongangdaily.com · 148 points · 115 comments

The Implications of Linguistic Illegibility for LLM Security

arxiv.org · 27 points · 29 comments

TikTok users' cameras hacked with open weight model

washingtonpost.com · 11 points · 0 comments

HEIF Heist: image parser RCE exploit

heif-heist.com · 10 points · 5 comments

Researchers find way to listen in on headphones from afar

theregister.com · 6 points · 0 comments

The Provenance Tax: How LLM Watermarking Changes AI Agent Behavior

lasso.security · 5 points · 1 comments

Pentagon weighs pulling nearly a third of U.S. forces from Europe

nbcnews.com · 81 points · 65 comments

GrapheneOS accuses Google of gatekeeping Android 17 features and security fixes

androidauthority.com · 16 points · 1 comments

US, China security experts propose nuclear-style safeguards for AI risks

reuters.com · 5 points · 2 comments

Plugin4Shell – Zero Click RCE Vulnerability found in top four coding agents

air.security · 11 points · 3 comments

Whoever's doing OpenAI's system security is just incompetent in the worst way

3 points · 1 comments

Cloudflare/Security-Audit-Skill

github.com · 208 points · 38 comments

Data Broker Radaris Loses Domains in Privacy Fight

krebsonsecurity.com · 17 points · 3 comments

Amazon to launch Ring 'neighbourhood watch' app in UK amid US privacy fears

theguardian.com · 7 points · 0 comments

Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip 'broken wide open' after 26 years

tomshardware.com · 166 points · 91 comments

Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography

security.apple.com · 56 points · 352 comments