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 SecurityGoogle 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