CyberSpaceRSS

Cybersecurity news for Windows, Ubuntu and the web

Security news that tells you what to do.

Hacks, scams and security flaws are in the news every day. CyberSpaceRSS reads it all and tells you, in plain words, what happened, whether it reaches you, and what to do about it. It draws the day as a sky of planets, so one look shows what matters.

Free, with no account needed. Mac: coming soon. Nothing to install? Try the browser preview.

This is what it looks like. Drag to look around; click a planet for the story and what to do about it. When several outlets cover the same event, they become one planet, not five. The clip is shown faster than real time.

Three things to know, and you can read the whole sky.

Colour is danger.

Grey is background news. Red is the most serious: a flaw being used in attacks right now, or one with the highest published rating.

  • Info
  • Low
  • Medium
  • High
  • Critical

Size is reach.

A bigger planet means more people, companies or devices are affected. A small one reaches few, or nobody has said how many yet.

Every story tells you what to do.

Click a planet. You get what happened and how far it reaches, then the steps to take: change that password, update that phone, slow down before you click. When a step needs showing, one click shows you how.

And it helps before anything goes wrong.

The news says what went wrong for someone else. Stay safe is the other half: nine short guides to the habits that stop most of it, from passwords to spotting a scam. Each is a handful of steps you can tick off.

Beneath the guides are the newest warnings from official sources, so you hear about a scam before it reaches you.

The Stay safe screen: guide cards in groups, beginning with Start here, each a short task such as using a different password for every account, with a progress bar.
The app set to Professional: a darker look, with planets labelled by headline, category and severity in the field's own terms.

Made for everyone, not only experts.

Everyday

Plain words: what happened, how far it reaches and what to do about it. It leads with the things most people own or use: your phone, your browser, your accounts.

Professional

Every story in the field's own terms, for people who work in security: identifiers, published scores, whether a flaw is under attack, and response steps.

Prefer a list? The briefing ranks every story, most important first, and can be searched and sorted. It works with a keyboard and a screen reader too.

Download it and open it. That is the whole setup.

Free. No account needed, nothing else to install first, and it keeps itself up to date.

Windows

WINDOWS 10 AND 11 · 103 MB

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Ubuntu

UBUNTU 24.04 · 102 MB

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Mac

NOT READY YET

Coming soon

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A preview: nothing to install, and it works on a phone too. Saving and pinning stories need the desktop app.

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