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 SecurityA 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