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Blasting Past WebP - An analysis of the NSO BLASTPASS iMessage exploit
An analysis of the NSO BLASTPASS iMessage exploit Posted by Ian Beer, Google Project Zero On Se...
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The most popular blog posts about security & privacy on Hacker News. 308 posts.
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Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem
On November 25th, one of our engineers was compromised by the Shai-Hulud npm supply chain worm. Here's what happened, how we responded, and what we've changed.
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Axon’s Draft One is designed to defy transparency
Axon Enterprise’s Draft One — a generative artificial intelligence product that writes police reports based on audio from officers’ body-worn cameras — seems deliberately designed to avoid audits that could provide any accountability to the public, an EFF investigation has found.Our review of...
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Congress passes Take It Down act despite major flaws
It would give the powerful a dangerous new route to manipulate platforms into removing lawful speech that they simply don't like, with President Trump himself saying that he would use the law to censor his critics. The bill passed the Senate in February, and it now heads to the president's desk.
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Key IOCs for Pegasus and Predator Spyware Removed with iOS 26 Update
iVerify brings operating system-level telemetry, behavioral baselining, and AI-driven threat hunting to hundreds of thousands of mobile devices
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Mixpanel Security Breach
Our response to a recent security incident The Signal Inside Mixpanel |
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Lumo: Privacy-first AI assistant
Lumo gives you the power to solve problems big and small, while keeping your personal data confidential. Try it now.
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Next.js version 15.2.3 has been released to address a security vulnerability
Last week, we published CVE-2025-29927 and patched a critical severity vulnerability in Next.js. Here’s our post-incident analysis and next steps.
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The hidden JTAG in a Qualcomm/Snapdragon device’s USB port
Learn about JTAG and EUD
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How to turn off Apple Intelligence
Learn how to turn off Apple Intelligence on iPhone, iPad, or Mac. Asurion Experts show you step-by-step how to manage your Apple devices’ smart features.
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Google Safe Browsing incident
For approximately six hours on 25.9.2025, the entire statichost.eu domain was flagged as deceptive by Google Safe Search. This meant that anyone using Google Safe Search was shown a very aggressive warning or outright blocked when trying to access any site on the statichost.eu domain. In some cases even custom domains…
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Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth
How Cloudflare uses generative AI to slow down, confuse, and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and other bots that don’t respect “no crawl” directives.
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If you are harassed by lasers
The green and blue "laser" dots at lower left are actually lens flare caused by the bright sun at upper right. The sun is reflecting off elements inside the lens, causing dots or flare. The flare is almost always located diagonally mirrored from a bright light source. Photo of a sunset, with upper and lower "beams"…
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TikTok unlawfully tracks shopping habits and use of dating apps?
TikTok tracks its users even if they're using other apps. The video platform therefore also knows what dating app you use
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Malware found in official gravityforms plugin indicating supply chain breach
Update 7-12-2025 06:00 UTC: We have observed some activity in regard to one of the backdoors that involves a gf_api_token parameter. The IP address 193.160.101.
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CamoLeak: Critical GitHub Copilot Vulnerability Leaks Private Source Code
Get details on our discovery of a critical vulnerability in GitHub Copilot Chat.
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Unexpected security footguns in Go's parsers
File parsers in Go contain unexpected behaviors that can lead to serious security vulnerabilities. This post examines how JSON, XML, and YAML parsers in Go handle edge cases in ways that have repeatedly resulted in high-impact security issues in production systems. We explore three real-world attack scenarios…
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Hyperlight WASM: Fast, secure, and OS-free
We're announcing the release of Hyperlight Wasm: a Hyperlight virtual machine “micro-guest” that can run wasm component workloads written in many programming languages. Learn more.
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Malware found on NPM infecting local package with reverse shell
For the first time, RL researchers discover malicious locally-installed npm packages infecting other legitimate packages.
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New Vulnerability in GitHub Copilot, Cursor: Hackers Can Weaponize Code Agents
Pillar Security researchers have uncovered a dangerous new supply chain attack vector we've named "Rules File Backdoor." This technique enables hackers to silently compromise AI-generated code by injecting hidden malicious instructions into seemingly innocent configuration files used by Cursor and GitHub Copilot—the…
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Build a tiny CA for your homelab with a Raspberry Pi
Let's make a tiny, standalone CA! We'll use a Raspberry Pi 4, YubiKey 5 NFC, and Infinite Noise TRNG.
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EU ruling: tracking-based advertising [...] across Europe has no legal basis
Landmark court decision against “TCF” consent pop ups on 80% of the internet
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A new generation of Tailscale access controls
Grants are Tailscale’s next generation of access controls that combine network and application capabilities into a single syntax.
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Memory-safe sudo to become the default in Ubuntu
May 6, 2025 – Ubuntu 25.10 is set to adopt sudo-rs by default. Sudo-rs is a memory-safe reimplementation of the widely-used sudo utility, written in the Rust programming language.
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Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025
The Great Firewall of China (GFW) conducted a large-scale, unconditional block targeting TCP port 443 on August 20, 2025. This report documents the measurements and analysis we conducted of that event.
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US authorities can see more than ever, with Big Tech as their eyes
Big Tech companies - Apple, Google, and Meta - have built a mass surveillance machine that the government can easily tap into.
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How to Delete Your 23andMe Data
This week, the genetic testing company 23andMe filed for bankruptcy, which means the genetic data the company collected on millions of users is now up for sale. If you don't want your data included in any potential sale, it’s a good time to ask the company to delete it.
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Data-at-Rest Encryption in DuckDB
DuckDB 1.4 ships database encryption capabilities. In this blog post, we dive into the implementation details of the encryption, show how to use it, and demonstrate its performance implications.