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 SecurityTikTok violating EU regulations on privacy rights, according to an investigation
fastcompany.com · 7 points · 3 comments
Abliterated GLM 5.2 model, fine-tuned for security and red-team work
abliteration.ai · 2 points · 0 comments
Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey
thehindu.com · 392 points · 281 comments
My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page
hhh.hn · 25 points · 6 comments
Talking smack about a doctor got him access to private medical files
theregister.com · 6 points · 0 comments
RubyGems advisory: Possible leak of legacy API keys via improper cache config
blog.rubygems.org · 3 points · 1 comments
How the most-used zero-knowledge proof system (Groth16) works
blog.zksecurity.xyz · 3 points · 0 comments
How Apple's Hide My Email exploit worked and why you're still at risk
easyoptouts.com · 4 points · 0 comments
California-bought cars can be hijacked via Bluetooth
theregister.com · 13 points · 4 comments
Selfie for sign-in: a new, easy way to access your Google Account
blog.google · 35 points · 33 comments
Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server
twitter.com · 14 points · 1 comments
EU fines Google €890M for competition breaches over search and apps
theguardian.com · 169 points · 180 comments
Restructuring GitHub's bug bounty program
github.blog · 51 points · 33 comments
I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation
citizendot.github.io · 442 points · 121 comments
A privacy-first macOS meeting-notes and writing app that runs on-device
github.com · 20 points · 0 comments
LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps
krebsonsecurity.com · 456 points · 485 comments
OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation
openai.com · 1604 points · 1126 comments
'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling
techradar.com · 699 points · 141 comments
France's Anssi Will Block PQC-Free Products from Certification Starting 2027
postquantum.com · 106 points · 61 comments
I found a WordPress RCEs with GPT5.6 and $25
slcyber.io · 404 points · 227 comments
Dashlane Loses List of Subprocessors
dashlane.com · 4 points · 0 comments
1-in-2 phones sold in Africa exfiltrate whole-device activity to China
nowsecure.com · 6 points · 0 comments
A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook? (2022)
technologyreview.com · 23 points · 3 comments
North Korean Hackers Compromise Go and PHP Packages
opensourcemalware.com · 3 points · 1 comments
Reframing smart glasses as 'pervert glasses'
this.weekinsecurity.com · 14 points · 7 comments
China tells devs to ditch Claude Code over 'backdoor code' fears
theregister.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Meta's glasses will turn off the camera if you tamper with the privacy light
theverge.com · 4 points · 2 comments
China Says It Has Found Security Vulnerabilities in Anthropic's Claude Code
wsj.com · 4 points · 4 comments
OpenBSD has a use-after-free allowing local privilege escalation to root
nvd.nist.gov · 267 points · 141 comments
Hackers can use 9 of the most popular AI tools to assemble botnets
arstechnica.com · 4 points · 0 comments