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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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SeL4 security proofs now complete on AArch64

proofcraft.systems · 81 points · 53 comments

Slovakia Finds Russian Backdoor in Traffic Speed Cameras

tomshardware.com · 5 points · 1 comments

Dev // Cyber Toolkit – a free floating dev/cybersecurity widget

dev-cyber-toolkit.netlify.app · 4 points · 3 comments

2-click code execution vulnerability on Omarchy Linux

twitter.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware

securelist.com · 118 points · 143 comments

Crafted NTFS File-System Image Allows Root Access on Linux with NTFS3 Driver

phoronix.com · 6 points · 0 comments

Hundreds of leaked AWS keys give full control over corporate accounts

bleepingcomputer.com · 7 points · 0 comments

Apple degrades privacy and encryption of iMessage with AI integrations

twitter.com · 4 points · 1 comments

Microsoft Entra ID Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

msrc.microsoft.com · 5 points · 1 comments

Companies that buy and sell your data are not following CA’s strict privacy laws

hai.stanford.edu · 4 points · 0 comments

May this night carry my will

phrack.org · 3 points · 0 comments

Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week

theguardian.com · 205 points · 197 comments

Slovakia discovers Russian backdoors in 279 new traffic cameras

tomshardware.com · 10 points · 0 comments

PgExtAssure – pre-admission security evidence for PostgreSQL extensions

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders

claude.com · 47 points · 52 comments

Uber Faces €825M Dutch Fine over Driver Suspensions

bloomberg.com · 12 points · 0 comments

Defending Against an Active Threat to Siemens S7 Series PLCs

cisa.gov · 4 points · 0 comments

Hong Kong convicts two Tiananmen vigil activists of inciting subversion

france24.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Meta glasses are a workplace menace

theverge.com · 14 points · 3 comments

See what's behind any website: DNS, hosting, security, tech stack

heckzar.app · 2 points · 5 comments

Researcher tricks Apple's Find My into sharing location data with Linux

theregister.com · 9 points · 1 comments

GPU VulnDB – open vulnerability database for GPU infrastructure

gpuvulndb.org · 2 points · 0 comments

New Manic Android malware can exfiltrate data through nearby devices

bleepingcomputer.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload

safedep.io · 218 points · 511 comments

Netherlands lists Israel as a threat to its national security for the first time

trtworld.com · 57 points · 11 comments

Sentrint, a security scanner for projects build with LLMs

sentrint.com · 6 points · 2 comments

An approach to vulnerability observability of Go services leveraging Prometheus

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

US warns of AI-powered attacks on Siemens PLCs in critical infrastructure

bleepingcomputer.com · 6 points · 0 comments

Gardner police discontinue Flock cameras as license plate readers face scrutiny

kmbc.com · 121 points · 66 comments

ICE boss to agents: Leave the Meta spy glasses at home

theregister.com · 11 points · 1 comments