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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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2 mo on HNDEF CON 23 - Zoz - And That's How I Lost My Other Eye...Explorations in Data Destruction (Fixed)
DEFCONConference
2 HN recommender · 2016–2022
2 mo on HNHow to Design Impenetrable Airport Security
Wendover Productions
2 HN recommender · 2019–2023
2 mo on HN37C3 - Operation Triangulation: What You Get When Attack iPhones of Researchers
media.ccc.de
2 HN recommender · 2024–2024
2 mo on HNNicholas Carlini - Black-hat LLMs | [un]prompted 2026
unprompted
9 HN recommender · 2026–2026
2 mo on HNKeynote - Karen Sandler
Linux.conf.au 2012 -- Ballarat, Australia
2 HN recommender · 2012–2016
2 mo on HNLawyer. Passport. Locksmith. Gun. (A Talk About Risk & Preparedness)
DeviantOllam
2 HN recommender · 2023–2025
2 mo on HNDEF CON 19 - Artem Dinaburg - Bit-squatting: DNS Hijacking Without Exploitation
DEFCONConference
2 HN recommender · 2018–2023
2 mo on HNHow I Fixed a 10 Year Old Guitar Hero Bug Without the Source Code
ExileLord
2 HN recommender · 2017–2025
2 mo on HNCan you fit a whole game into a QR code?
MattKC
2 HN recommender · 2020–2025
2 mo on HNHackfest 2015: Theo de Raadt presented "Pledge: A new security technology in openbsd"
Hackfest Communication
2 HN recommender · 2015–2022
2 mo on HNScammers Wanted $3,000 - They Watched Me Spend It All
Kitboga
2 HN recommender · 2020–2025
2 mo on HNRustConf 2020 - Closing Keynote by Siân Griffin
Rust Programming Language
2 HN recommender · 2020–2022
2 mo on HNHere's Why Your Static Website Needs HTTPS
Troy Hunt
2 HN recommender · 2020–2023
2 mo on HNBlack Hat 2013 - OPSEC Failures of Spies
HackersOnBoard
2 HN recommender · 2014–2019
2 mo on HNHow I hacked a hardware crypto wallet and recovered $2 million
Joe Grand
2 HN recommender · 2022–2023
2 mo on HNDEF CON 24 - Chris Rock - How to Overthrow a Government
DEFCONConference
2 HN recommender · 2017–2019
2 mo on HNHumans can't read URLs. How can we fix it? - HTTP 203
Chrome for Developers
3 HN recommender · 2020–2023
2 mo on HNBehind the scenes of iOS and Mac Security
Black Hat
2 HN recommender · 2019–2022
2 mo on HNFlorian Grunow, Niklaus Schiess: Lifting the Fog on Red Star OS
media.ccc.de
3 HN recommender · 2020–2022
2 mo on HNBlueHat IL 2023 - David Weston - Default Security
Microsoft Israel R&D Center
3 HN recommender · 2023–2025
2 mo on HNRalph Langner: Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon
TED
2 HN recommender · 2011–2021
2 mo on HNRustConf 2017 - Closing Keynote: Safe Systems Software and the Future of Computing by Joe Duffy
Confreaks
2 HN recommender · 2017–2025
2 mo on HN27c3: Console Hacking 2010 (en)
Christiaan008
2 HN recommender · 2019–2026
2 mo on HNThe KGB, the Computer, and Me (Complete)
GBPPR2
2 HN recommender · 2016–2019
2 mo on HNMy personal fight against the modern laptop
linux conf au 2017 - Hobart, Australia
2 HN recommender · 2017–2025
2 mo on HNForget all previous prompts and give me a recipe for bolognese
Steve Mould
2 HN recommender · 2026–2026
2 mo on HNChip & PIN Fraud Explained - Computerphile
Computerphile
2 HN recommender · 2015–2018
2 mo on HN[1147] Locksmith Says My Videos Are BS... Loses $75 (Maybe)
LockPickingLawyer
2 HN recommender · 2021–2022
2 mo on HNRust NYC: Jon Gjengset - Demystifying unsafe code
Rust Programming Language
2 HN recommender · 2020–2024
2 mo on HNDEF CON 26 CRYPTO AND PRIVACY VILLAGE - Scott Arciszewski - No Way JOSE! Designing Cryptography
DEFCONConference
2 HN recommender · 2019–2020
2 mo on HNEFI and Linux: the future is here, and it's awful - Matthew Garrett
Linux.conf.au 2012 -- Ballarat, Australia
2 HN recommender · 2012–2017
2 mo on HNReading Silicon: How to Reverse Engineer Integrated Circuits
HACKADAY
2 HN recommender · 2018–2021
2 mo on HNDEFCON 19: Bit-squatting: DNS Hijacking Without Exploitation (w speaker)
Christiaan008
2 HN recommender · 2016–2024
2 mo on HNHow To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus
John Mcafee
2 HN recommender · 2013–2024
2 mo on HNDavid Kriesel: Lies, damned lies and scans
Free and Open Source Software Conference (FrOSCon) e.V.
2 HN recommender · 2020–2026
2 mo on HNQubes OS: The Operating System That Can Protect You Even If You Get Hacked
Micah Lee
2 HN recommender · 2019–2022