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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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A 32-year-old bug walks into a Telnet server

labs.watchtowr.com · 111 points · 46 comments

Cisco email security boxes can be rooted by an email

theregister.com · 7 points · 2 comments

America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster

lawfaremedia.org · 149 points · 204 comments

Eleuteria – a privacy-first RoboSats coordinator

eleuteria-robosat.github.io · 2 points · 0 comments

Better Codes – and how they can be worse if you're not careful

blog.zksecurity.xyz · 8 points · 0 comments

With Apple Watch that's always listening, what's at stake is public perception

manualdousuario.net · 12 points · 3 comments

National Security Agency launches historic restructuring

washingtonpost.com · 12 points · 1 comments

U.S. has deployed first space-based weapon, Air Force secretary says

washingtonpost.com · 9 points · 0 comments

Security through obscurity is dead, and AI delivered the fatal blow

theregister.com · 14 points · 4 comments

US 10-Year Breaches 5% as Inflation, Supply Worries Mount

bloomberg.com · 72 points · 56 comments

What Is Obtainium?

theprivacydad.com · 8 points · 2 comments

RubyGems Open Source Supply Chain Security and OpenAI

rietta.com · 46 points · 6 comments

Unsolved Problem by Fields Medalist Breached by Two High School Students

htx.com · 27 points · 59 comments

How much correlation should a privacy system preserve?

2 points · 0 comments

UK.gov begins killing off passwords for 23M users

theregister.com · 20 points · 2 comments

Chess.com Leak Exposes 7.3M Users, Evidence Points to Scraping

securityaffairs.com · 29 points · 26 comments

What are some privacy/security tools you wish exist, but don't yet?

5 points · 8 comments

Boston Scientific: Update on recent cybersecurity incident

news.bostonscientific.com · 8 points · 0 comments

WEF – Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy

web.archive.org · 17 points · 0 comments

Why is privacy so hard? (2019)

cacm.acm.org · 63 points · 64 comments

Security through obscurity is dead, and AI delivered the fatal blow

theregister.com · 14 points · 14 comments

US Customs supervisor busted for stealing hardware from Homeland Security PCs

tomshardware.com · 66 points · 109 comments

Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests

techcrunch.com · 188 points · 132 comments

Anthropic CEO says AI swarm could 'take over the Internet' in 6-12 months

venturebeat.com · 48 points · 34 comments

EU CYBER RESILIENCE ACT forces manufacturers to disclose exploited vulnerabilit

digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu · 14 points · 0 comments

Revolut confirms customer data breach, falling for fake government requests

reuters.com · 53 points · 18 comments

ClickFix attacks infecting PCs and Macs are going viral

arstechnica.com · 4 points · 4 comments

Compiler Can Undo Your Security Checks

davidbombal.com · 8 points · 67 comments

HuggingFace: Security.txt

huggingface.co · 276 points · 72 comments

Developer created an app to detect nearby Meta glasses

businessinsider.com · 6 points · 2 comments