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Security & hacking Videos Recommended on Hacker News (192)
Security & hacking is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 192 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2011 and 2026 — 481 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Computer security: vulnerabilities, exploits, malware, reverse engineering, CTF, penetration testing, Black Hat and DEF CON talks, OS security, memory safety, zero-days, responsible disclosure.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Behind the Scenes of iOS Security: “if you haven't watched the talk at Black Hat I'd highly recommend it” — an HN commenter, 2018.
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4 mo on HNWe Hacked Flock Safety Cameras in under 30 Seconds. 🫥
Benn Jordan
4 HN recommender · 2025–2026
4 mo on HNNina Kollars - Confessions of an Nespresso Money Mule - DEF CON 27 Conference
DEFCONConference
4 HN recommender · 2020–2025
3 mo on HNDEF CON 18 - Moxie Marlinspike - Changing Threats To Privacy: From TIA to Google
DEFCONConference
3 HN recommender · 2017–2022
3 mo on HN[1299] Unpickable Locks From Stuff Made Here
LockPickingLawyer
5 HN recommender · 2021–2022
3 mo on HNDEF CON 23 - Chris Domas - Repsych: Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering
DEFCONConference
4 HN recommender · 2016–2026
3 mo on HN36C3 - Open Source is Insufficient to Solve Trust Problems in Hardware
media.ccc.de
2 HN recommender · 2020–2023
4 mo on HNDEF CON 29 - Richard Henderson - Old MacDonald Had a Barcode, E I E I CAR
DEFCONConference
4 HN recommender · 2021–2026
3 mo on HNDEF CON 26 - Christopher Domas - GOD MODE UNLOCKED Hardware Backdoors in redacted x86
DEFCONConference
4 HN recommender · 2019–2026
3 mo on HN"Why do you lock your door?" - RVASec 2012
Schuyler Towne
2 HN recommender · 2014–2020
3 mo on HNDEF CON 30 - Sam Bent - Tor - Darknet Opsec By a Veteran Darknet Vendor
DEFCONConference
3 HN recommender · 2024–2024
3 mo on HNDefcon 21 - Decapping Chips The Strike Easy Hard Way
HackersOnBoard
3 HN recommender · 2014–2025
3 mo on HNREcon 2013 - The Future of RE : Dynamic Binary Visualization (Christopher Domas)
Sébastien Duquette
3 HN recommender · 2015–2024
3 mo on HNDefeating Ssl Using Sslstrip (Marlinspike Blackhat)
TheSecurityTube
3 HN recommender · 2014–2018
3 mo on HNDEF CON 22 - Adrian Crenshaw- Dropping Docs on Darknets: How People Got Caught
DEFCONConference
3 HN recommender · 2015–2024
3 mo on HNBlueHat Seattle 2019 || Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story
Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)
2 HN recommender · 2020–2026
3 mo on HNMoxie Marlinspike, Next Generation Threats 2014
Techworld Sverige
3 HN recommender · 2015–2021
3 mo on HNTWO Unpickable (?) Locks for Lock Picking Lawyer!
Stuff Made Here
3 HN recommender · 2021–2022
3 mo on HNDefcon 21 - The Secret Life of SIM Cards
HackersOnBoard
3 HN recommender · 2014–2026
3 mo on HNThe Search for the Perfect Door - Deviant Ollam
Shakacon LLC
2 HN recommender · 2017–2023
3 mo on HNDefcon 20 - Dan Tentler - Drinking from the caffeine firehose we know as shodan
vissago
3 HN recommender · 2014–2019
3 mo on HNBlack Hat USA 2013 - OPSEC failures of spies
Black Hat
3 HN recommender · 2016–2019
3 mo on HNDEFCON 20: Hacker + Airplanes = No Good Can Come Of This
Christiaan008
3 HN recommender · 2015–2026
3 mo on HNJailbreaking the Simulation with George Hotz | SXSW 2019
SXSW
3 HN recommender · 2020–2023
2 mo on HNDEFCON 19: Steal Everything, Kill Everyone, Cause Total Financial Ruin! (w speaker)
Christiaan008
2 HN recommender · 2017–2021
3 mo on HNThe KGB, the Computer, and Me.
DragonFartOutLoud
3 HN recommender · 2021–2024
3 mo on HNConsole Hacking 2016 (33c3)
media.ccc.de
4 HN recommender · 2017–2024
2 mo on HNDEF CON 26 - Christopher Domas - The Ring 0 Facade Awakening the Processors Inner Demons
DEFCONConference
2 HN recommender · 2019–2026
3 mo on HNThe KGB, The Computer and Me - The Cuckoo’s Egg Story
Australian Phoenix CyberOps
3 HN recommender · 2024–2025
3 mo on HNIchthyology: Phishing as a Science
Black Hat
3 HN recommender · 2018–2025
3 mo on HNHoward Payne & Deviant Ollam - This Key is Your Key, This Key is My Key
DeviantOllam
3 HN recommender · 2017–2021
3 mo on HNIntroducing a Memory-Safe Successor Language in Large C++ Code Bases - John McCall - CppNow 2023
CppNow
3 HN recommender · 2023–2025
2 mo on HNNetanel Rubin: The Perl Jam: Exploiting a 20 Year-old Vulnerability
media.ccc.de
2 HN recommender · 2018–2023
3 mo on HN(405) Choosing a High Security Lock
Bill Johnson
3 HN recommender · 2016–2017
3 mo on HNBrian Warner - Magic Wormhole- Simple Secure File Transfer - PyCon 2016.mp4
PyCon 2016
3 HN recommender · 2018–2023
3 mo on HNLibreSSL: The first 30 days, and what the Future Holds
Andrea Ross
3 HN recommender · 2014–2022
3 mo on HNJacob Appelbaum (Part 2/2) Digital Anti-Repression Workshop - April 26 2012
NewYorkRawVideos
3 HN recommender · 2012–2017