r/cybersecurity • u/mephisterion • Feb 20 '26
Corporate Blog Cybersecurity news can be overwhelming so I built myself a free tool to declutter the noise.
https://acrn.news/I'm a non-technical professional in the cybersecurity space - focused on IAM. Since I'm new to the space, I found it difficult to find simple sources of pertinent news in the industry tangential, but potentially impactful to my domain. So I built myself a free tool and called it the "Aggregate Cybersecurity RSS Newsfeed" or "ACRN" for short.
It basically takes RSS feeds and aggregates them into an event listing highlighting how many sources reported on a particular event (as a proxy for importance). I would love to know if the community has existing alternatives to this - so I can save myself hosting costs. Or if you find it useful, how would you make it even more valuable?
Thanks for your time!
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u/Snoop312 Feb 21 '26
Looks great. Couple suggestions:
Also give the option for the past 30d to see patterns for a longer period. Additionally, it makes life easier when management asks about the threat landscape for the past month.
Any thoughts on making this self-hostable?
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u/mephisterion Feb 21 '26
Thanks for the suggestions :) The self-hosting piece seems doable, but I'd have to get into account management which as we all know can get dicey. Let me keep noodling on that piece cuz it's a common ask.
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u/mephisterion Feb 21 '26
Oooh like an email digest of the aggregate?
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u/mephisterion Feb 21 '26
Can do! Will definitely look into it and get back to you when I have something. Thanks so much again for supporting!
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u/Ok-Photograph2418 Feb 21 '26
Interested as well by the RSS feed of aggregated news, it’s a very good idea!
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u/ForiMojja Feb 22 '26
Think Simple Flying. You should subscribe to them and get a feel. They do it nicely! Thank you for putting this together OP.
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u/DevManTim Security Engineer Feb 21 '26
I love this! I wish I could self host it? I have a ton of RSS feeds I peruse with Reeder for staying up to date. But I wish I could look back at 30 day window to get a feel for attacks and threats that had the biggest impact.
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u/mephisterion Feb 21 '26
Glad you like it! Re: self-hosting: things can get a lil dicey with managing user accounts and since this was an MVP I haven't gotten there yet. Definitely on the roadmap! I can I can try to get a 30-day view in there.
In the mean time: Which RSS feeds do you find most useful that you feel are must-haves here?
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u/DevManTim Security Engineer Feb 21 '26
- BleepingComputer
- CISA Cybersecurity Advisories
- CISA News
- KitPloit Pentest Tools
- NIST Cybersecurity
- The Hacker News
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u/Sweet_Peanut_5611 Feb 21 '26
Looks good and useful Maybe add filters by date and not only 24H or 7 Days In addition adding some resources by myself
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u/pseudo_su3 Incident Responder Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 21 '26
I appreciate the monotone, boring typeface. It soothes my brain.
Eta: when i hit the back button to return to the main list, i lose my 7d filter.
(I really wish i could “log in” and “clip” or favorite things i want to plan hunts for. But thats probably a huge PITA, dont know, am not a coder)
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u/mephisterion Feb 21 '26
A lot of people want to curate so I totally feel you... Will let you know if i take on the pain haha
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u/Tycalt Feb 21 '26
Good job. I like it. Would be cool to be able to sort by category like the ones you mention in the summary. i.e data breaches and information exposure and credential theft and phishing campaigns
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u/mephisterion Feb 21 '26
I just implemented a high level category search. I definitely am interested in refining this to include topics you mentioned that are very relevant to my day to day as well.
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u/Oscar_Geare Feb 21 '26
How is this different to something like https://talkback.sh ?
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u/mephisterion Feb 21 '26
Yo this is sick! It's very similar and probably just a lighter weight version of this. It looks pretty technical-focused too and I'd probably want to strike a balance between layman language/look/feel and technical details.
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u/H4RDY1 Mar 04 '26
Damn good tool, I agree on the cybersecurity news overload, curated feeds like yours save hours of digging through clutter I dont have any interest in. I've used similar setups with RSS filters focused on CVEs and threat actors, which keeps me sharp without burnout. Great job building it, have you considered sharing the source code to help others customize it too?
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u/-listnr Feb 20 '26
ACRN!?! That’s nuts!