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The CISA Alert: Security Beyond Solitary Confinement

Xray-core concealed a certificate verification bypass vulnerability

EmbedCatalog is participating in Hacktoberfest 2026

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How to hack time, with C2PA

Medical records giant Epic pauses product development to fix security bugs that risk patients’ data

The healthtech software giant, which makes the widely used MyChart system for accessing medical data, will focus on fixing security bugs for the next few weeks.

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel

Congrats to the DEV Weekend Challenge: Generosity Edition Winners!

We are excited to announce the winners of our DEV Weekend Challenge: Generosity Edition! We asked...

Hacks of 2 federal agencies in a month have spilled a bonanza of sensitive data

It has been a bad month for federal government cybersecurity.

Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach

The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.

Hacking SimCity 2000 saved games

Dutch police arrest ShinyHunters hacker accused of planning two murders

Dutch police said the hacker, arrested for being part of the ShinyHunters cybercriminal gang, had plans to organize the murder of two people on his laptop.

Still running iOS 26? Update your iPhones, iPads and Macs for this urgent security fix

Apple says the bug was used to attack "specific targeted individuals" running iOS 26, which the majority of Apple customers are still using.

Your car’s data privacy problems are worse than you think

You hear it all the time: Modern cars are basically smartphones on wheels. And just like the phone in your pocket, the car in your driveway collects vast amounts of data - tracking where you drive, ho…

Your GitHub profile shows your follower count. It also shows attackers your whole attack surface.

The weekend project everyone's shipping — a GitHub Action that auto-updates a badge on your profile README — quietly hands attackers a map of your tokens, your workflow permissions, and your supply ch…

Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts

Hi HN,I’m Per, founder of Scrimba (YC S20). We’ve spent the last decade teaching people how to code with an HTML-based video format. We’ve now plugged an LLM into it, so that people can create explain…

Show HN: Hntui – A TUI for Hacker News

hi there! i'd like you to try out a tui i made for browsing hackernews. it's built using opentui and also effect (learning experiment). i really like it and i think you will too!

C64 MERCENARY (1985): a novel exploit bug at the start of the game

The Impostor Was Never Dealt. So We Made the Deal Provable.

Retrofitting zero knowledge anti-cheat onto an open-source Among Us clone with Midnight's Compact, with a former rival on the team.