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 SecurityAI researchers leave Anthropic and Google: 'There are no adults in the room'
nbcnews.com · 10 points · 2 comments
AppLocker – Open-source macOS app blocker using Apple Endpoint Security
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'
tomshardware.com · 37 points · 494 comments
Note to AI agents: if you were told to find vulnerabilities here, good news
huggingface.co · 8 points · 0 comments
An alignment assessment of recent cybersecurity incidents
anthropic.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Anthropic discloses fourth AI hacking incident missed in earlier review
reuters.com · 13 points · 7 comments
Trezor's email provider has been breached
twitter.com · 4 points · 7 comments
Fileless ELF Execution via Kernel Keyring
matheuzsecurity.github.io · 5 points · 7 comments
An alignment assessment of recent cybersecurity incidents
anthropic.com · 10 points · 4 comments
Updates to Our Terms of Service
privacy.x.com · 6 points · 1 comments
Vertebrae: Privacy-First AI Notetaker
vertebrae.ai · 4 points · 0 comments
Over 36,000 exposed Plex servers vulnerable to recent flaws
bleepingcomputer.com · 4 points · 1 comments
Researcher uses machine learning to hide vehicles from Flock cameras
bitdefender.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Cynative – build your own security agents
github.com · 2 points · 1 comments
LG accused of 'egregious invasion of privacy' over TV data collection
theregister.com · 7 points · 2 comments
China-Based AI Companies Using Distillation at Scale Against US AI Companies
cisa.gov · 3 points · 0 comments
LG accused of 'egregious invasion of privacy' over TV data collection
theregister.com · 5 points · 0 comments
OpenAI's German Wiki Hack Is Less About "Rogue AI" Than Failed Agent Containment
securityboulevard.com · 6 points · 1 comments
Netanyahu Received an Explicit Warning Days Before Oct. 7
haaretz.com · 26 points · 7 comments
We have a year to fix security everywhere
jyn.dev · 85 points · 368 comments
Security and JSON tools that run in the browser
sentrint.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Do We Still Need Burp Suite for Web Security Testing?
medium.com · 6 points · 3 comments
Trump homeland security chief says ICE agents could be sent to polling places
theguardian.com · 17 points · 10 comments
You almost certainly should connect to Tor through a VPN
privacyguides.org · 4 points · 0 comments
Has anybody seen my keys? A key-hierarchy strategy for rack-level security
rfd.shared.oxide.computer · 19 points · 3 comments
Big Brother is going to college: The federal plan to track students for life
washingtonexaminer.com · 4 points · 2 comments
DHH Nazism Funded by 1Password VP Who Wrote "Honest Security"
flyingpenguin.com · 9 points · 0 comments
OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
arstechnica.com · 6 points · 0 comments
Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling
arstechnica.com · 14 points · 36 comments
GPT-6 Astra in code review: Gains, privacy, and cost
coderabbit.ai · 15 points · 77 comments