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Best Security & hacking Talks Recommended on Hacker News

This ranked list contains 132 Security & hacking talks from a 191-video topic archive. Entries are ordered by distinct Hacker News recommenders, then by the catalog score; the leading titles include DEF CON 25 - John Sotos - Genetic Diseases to Guide Digital Hacks of the Human Genome, USENIX Security '18-Q: Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?, and Behind the Scenes of iOS Security. The broader topic archive has 1,264 labeled comments across 2011–2026, but this list only includes videos classified as talks. Each row shows its recorded recommendation count and a reason based on its tags and HN history. Use the recent-video archive to browse every format by latest HN mention instead.

  1. 1
    DEF CON 25 - John Sotos - Genetic Diseases to Guide Digital Hacks of the Human Genome

    11 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Security & hacking; the recorded mentions span 2017–2023.

    11 recommenders
  2. 2
    USENIX Security '18-Q: Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?

    10 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Security & hacking; the recorded mentions span 2018–2026.

    10 recommenders
  3. 3
    Behind the Scenes of iOS Security

    9 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Security & hacking; the recorded mentions span 2016–2026.

    9 recommenders
  4. 4
    28c3: The Science of Insecurity

    9 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Security & hacking; the recorded mentions span 2012–2024.

    9 recommenders
  5. 5
    Elevator Hacking: From the Pit to the Penthouse

    9 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Security & hacking; the recorded mentions span 2014–2026.

    9 recommenders
  6. 6
    BlackHat USA 2011: SSL And The Future Of Authenticity

    9 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Cryptography; the recorded mentions span 2011–2017.

    9 recommenders
  7. 7
    #HITB2012KUL D1T3 - The Grugq - OPSEC: Because Jail is for wuftpd

    9 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Security & hacking; the recorded mentions span 2013–2024.

    9 recommenders
  8. 8
    Breaking the x86 Instruction Set

    9 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Security & hacking; the recorded mentions span 2017–2022.

    9 recommenders
  9. 9
    NSA operation ORCHESTRA: Annual Status Report

    9 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Privacy, surveillance & cybercrime; the recorded mentions span 2014–2019.

    9 recommenders
  10. 10
    Nicholas Carlini - Black-hat LLMs | [un]prompted 2026

    9 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Security & hacking; the recorded mentions span 2026–2026.

    9 recommenders
  11. 11
    Compiling C to printable x86, to make an executable research paper

    8 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Compilers, interpreters & program analysis; the recorded mentions span 2018–2023.

    8 recommenders
  12. 12
    27C3: Adventures in analyzing Stuxnet (Bruce Dang from Microsoft)

    8 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Security & hacking; the recorded mentions span 2011–2024.

    8 recommenders
  13. 13
    Frank Abagnale | Catch Me If You Can | Talks at Google

    8 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Security & hacking; the recorded mentions span 2018–2023.

    8 recommenders
  14. 14
    Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story — Tony Chen, Microsoft

    8 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Security & hacking; the recorded mentions span 2019–2026.

    8 recommenders
  15. 15
    OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (in plain English)

    7 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Security & hacking; the recorded mentions span 2019–2026.

    7 recommenders
  16. 16
    4 2 1 Christopher Domas The future of RE Dynamic Binary Visualization

    7 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Security & hacking; the recorded mentions span 2013–2026.

    7 recommenders
  17. 17
    DEF CON 23 - Chris Rock - I Will Kill You

    7 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Security & hacking; the recorded mentions span 2016–2025.

    7 recommenders
  18. 18
    Defcon 18 Changing threats to privacy Moxie Marlinspike Part

    6 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Privacy, surveillance & cybercrime; the recorded mentions span 2012–2019.

    6 recommenders
  19. 19
    Break Me00 The MoVfuscator Turning mov into a soul crushing RE nightmare Christopher Domas

    6 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Security & hacking; the recorded mentions span 2017–2026.

    6 recommenders
  20. 20
    Bryan Cantrill on Jails and Solaris Zones

    6 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Operating systems & kernels; the recorded mentions span 2016–2025.

    6 recommenders
  21. 21
    BlueHat IL 2019 - Andrew "bunnie" Huang - Supply Chain Security: "If I were a Nation State...”

    6 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Security & hacking; the recorded mentions span 2019–2024.

    6 recommenders
  22. 22
    LibreSSL with Bob Beck

    6 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Cryptography; the recorded mentions span 2014–2025.

    6 recommenders
  23. 23
    Replace Your Exploit-Ridden Firmware with Linux - Ronald Minnich, Google

    6 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Security & hacking; the recorded mentions span 2017–2023.

    6 recommenders
  24. 24
    DEF CON 26 - Svea, Suggy, Till - Inside the Fake Science Factory

    5 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Media, journalism & propaganda; the recorded mentions span 2018–2025.

    5 recommenders
  25. 25
    Theory and Practice of Cryptography

    5 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Cryptography; the recorded mentions span 2011–2019.

    5 recommenders