About Daybreak

Daybreak is a self-hosted security news aggregator built for people who need to stay on top of the threat landscape without wading through noise. It pulls headlines from a curated list of trusted security and privacy sources, supplements them with live ransomware victim data and recent CVEs, and presents everything in one fast, server-rendered interface.

No tracking, no algorithmic feed manipulation, no ads. Just the news, as it lands.

News Feed

The main feed aggregates articles from security blogs, threat intelligence outlets, and vulnerability disclosure channels. Articles are fetched in the background on a regular schedule; the page you read is always served from cache, so it loads instantly.

You can narrow the feed by category — Critical / Patch Now, Threat Intel, Strategic, DACH Corner, Privacy, Ransomware, EU / Policy — using the filter bar, and adjust the time window to show the last 24 hours, 3 days, 7 days, or 30 days.

Ransomware Activity

A live sidebar widget shows the latest ransomware victim postings sourced from ransomlook.io (data used under CC BY 4.0). The widget respects the same time window as the main feed.

CVE Tracker

A second sidebar widget surfaces recent vulnerabilities from the NIST National Vulnerability Database, cross-referenced with the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue. Each entry shows its CVSS severity and EPSS exploitation-probability score where available.

Sources Directory

The Sources page lists every active feed Daybreak monitors, along with its category and current health status. You can see which sources are freshly updated, which are quiet, and which have been temporarily disabled due to repeated fetch failures.

Full-Text Search

The Search page lets you run keyword searches across all cached article titles and summaries. Results are ranked by recency and can be filtered by category.

Personalised Feed (account required)

Registered users get a My Feed view that shows only articles from the sources they have chosen to follow. You can subscribe and unsubscribe from individual sources at any time under Settings → Sources.

Starred Articles (account required)

Star any article to save it for later. Your starred items are collected on the Starred page and persist across sessions.

Watch Terms (account required)

Add keywords under Settings → Watch terms to keep tabs on specific topics, threat actors, CVE IDs, or vendor names. Matching articles are highlighted in your feed, and any matches from the last 24 hours appear in a dedicated Alerts block at the top of My Feed.

Webhooks (account required)

Push new articles to Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, or any HTTP endpoint the moment they land in the feed. Configure one or more webhooks under Settings → Webhooks, with optional filters by keyword or category so you only receive the alerts that matter to you.

RSS Output (account required)

Daybreak exposes a personal RSS feed at /feed/rss so you can subscribe in any feed reader. The feed reflects your source subscriptions and is scoped to the last 7 days of articles.

Suggest a Source

Know a quality security blog or feed that Daybreak is missing? Use the Suggest page to submit it. Suggestions are reviewed manually before a source is added.

Theme

Daybreak supports light and dark modes. The theme toggles instantly via the button in the top navigation and your preference is stored locally in the browser — no account needed.

Account & Privacy

Creating an account is optional. If you do register, you can export all your data or permanently delete your account at any time under Settings → Account. See the Privacy Policy for full details on what is stored and why.

Open Source

Daybreak is open source (MIT License). The source code is available at github.com/SilverDay/daybreak.