PickVidsBest Security & hacking Videos
The 192 Security & hacking videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 7 introductory, 63 intermediate, 85 for a general viewer, and 37 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include DEFCONConference, media.ccc.de, Black Hat.
Defeating Ssl Using Sslstrip (Marlinspike Blackhat)
Moxie Marlinspike's Black Hat talk presenting sslstrip, which defeats SSL in practice by intercepting the http-to-https redirect.
DEF CON 22 - Adrian Crenshaw- Dropping Docs on Darknets: How People Got Caught
Adrian Crenshaw's DEF CON 22 talk gives an overview of Tor and I2P, then goes through real cases where darknet users were caught.
BlueHat Seattle 2019 || Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story
Tony Chen of Microsoft explains at BlueHat Seattle 2019 how the Xbox One was designed to resist physical attacks.
Moxie Marlinspike, Next Generation Threats 2014
Moxie Marlinspike speaks at Next Generation Threats 2014 about the challenges of encrypted communication and how Signal addresses them.
TWO Unpickable (?) Locks for Lock Picking Lawyer!
Engineer Stuff Made Here builds two new supposedly unpickable locks with different designs and sends them to the Lock Picking Lawyer to see whether they can be defeated.
Defcon 21 - The Secret Life of SIM Cards
A DEF CON 21 talk by Karl Koscher and Eric Butler on how SIM cards work, including Java Card applets, the SIM toolkit and the OS running on the card.
The Search for the Perfect Door - Deviant Ollam
Deviant Ollam shows that most physical attacks on doors bypass the lock, with photo and video examples of how doors, frames and hardware get defeated.
Defcon 20 - Dan Tentler - Drinking from the caffeine firehose we know as shodan
Dan Tentler's DEF CON 20 talk on odd things he found on the internet through Shodan, such as stoplights, power systems and other non-computer devices exposed online.
Black Hat USA 2013 - OPSEC failures of spies
Journalist Matthew Cole's Black Hat 2013 talk on the CIA's operational security failures in the 2003 Milan kidnapping.
DEFCON 20: Hacker + Airplanes = No Good Can Come Of This
A DEF CON 20 talk by RenderMan on the security weaknesses of ADS-B, the unencrypted, unauthenticated aircraft tracking broadcast.
Jailbreaking the Simulation with George Hotz | SXSW 2019
George Hotz gives a SXSW 2019 talk on the idea that we live in a simulation and asks what actions would be available from inside it.
DEFCON 19: Steal Everything, Kill Everyone, Cause Total Financial Ruin! (w speaker)
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The KGB, the Computer, and Me.
A WGBH/NOVA re-enactment of Clifford Stoll's hunt for KGB-linked hacker Markus Hess, based on his book The Cuckoo's Egg.
Console Hacking 2016 (33c3)
A 33c3 talk by marcan on reverse engineering the PS4 hardware to run Linux with 3D acceleration.
DEF CON 26 - Christopher Domas - The Ring 0 Facade Awakening the Processors Inner Demons
Christopher Domas's DEF CON 26 talk on secret processor registers that vendors reserve for third parties holding trusted keys.
The KGB, The Computer and Me - The Cuckoo’s Egg Story
A 57-minute account of Clifford Stoll's tracking of a KGB-linked hacker through Lawrence Berkeley Lab computers in 1986, the story of The Cuckoo's Egg.
Ichthyology: Phishing as a Science
Karla Burnett presents real phishing campaigns run against a Bay Area tech company, including conversion rates and how existing protections were bypassed.
Howard Payne & Deviant Ollam - This Key is Your Key, This Key is My Key
A HOPE conference talk by Howard Payne and Deviant Ollam on common keys, such as elevator and fire service keys, that open many buildings.
Introducing a Memory-Safe Successor Language in Large C++ Code Bases - John McCall - CppNow 2023
John McCall of Apple's Swift team presents at CppNow 2023 on introducing a memory-safe successor language into large C++ code bases.
Netanel Rubin: The Perl Jam: Exploiting a 20 Year-old Vulnerability
Netanel Rubin's 31C3 talk chains Perl's syntax quirks into a powerful remote code execution attack, taking down popular Perl-based projects.
(405) Choosing a High Security Lock
Lock-picking YouTuber Bill Johnson (BosnianBill) explains how to choose a high-security lock and why, showing examples and comparing designs.
Brian Warner - Magic Wormhole- Simple Secure File Transfer - PyCon 2016.mp4
Brian Warner, author of magic-wormhole, presents the tool at PyCon 2016.
LibreSSL: The first 30 days, and what the Future Holds
Bob Beck of OpenBSD gives a BSDCan 2014 talk on the first month of LibreSSL, the OpenSSL fork.
Jacob Appelbaum (Part 2/2) Digital Anti-Repression Workshop - April 26 2012
Part 2 of a Q&A workshop with security researcher Jacob Appelbaum from April 2012, covering mobile phone security, cellphone forensics, state repression and surveillance.