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    Security war stories

    Curated by HackerTube · 13 videos · 10 hr 42 min

    These are stories, not tutorials: people who broke into wallets, buildings and elevators, investigators who took apart Stuxnet and Mt. Gox, and the opsec mistakes that got hackers arrested. It opens with a single tense break-in, moves through cons and physical intrusion, then malware and crime, and ends with the near-miss supply chain attack of 2024. Most are conference talks that HN keeps linking because they are a pleasure to watch.

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    1. 1
      32:18

      How I hacked a hardware crypto wallet and recovered $2 million

      Joe Grand · 10M views · 4 years ago

      A gripping opener: Joe Grand spends three months glitching a Trezor wallet, knowing he gets only one real chance to recover the $2 million inside.

    2. 2
      56:58

      The KGB, the Computer, and Me.

      DragonFartOutLoud · 87K views · 13 years ago

      The original hacker detective story: Cliff Stoll follows a 75-cent accounting error at Berkeley Lab all the way to a KGB-linked intruder, re-enacted by the people involved.

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      1:03:20

      Frank Abagnale | Catch Me If You Can | Talks at Google

      Talks at Google · 16M views · 8 years ago

      The real man behind Catch Me If You Can shows that social engineering predates computers, and HN still repeats his advice on credit cards and fraud.

    4. 4
      16:18

      Spying on the Scammers [Part 1/5]

      Jim Browning · 20M views · 6 years ago

      Jim Browning turns a tech support scammer's connection back on them and ends up watching the call centre through its own CCTV.

    5. 5
      19:55

      Nina Kollars - Confessions of an Nespresso Money Mule - DEF CON 27 Conference

      DEFCONConference · 597K views · 6 years ago

      A short, funny DEF CON talk in which a cheap eBay coffee order pulls a researcher into the world of stolen cards and reshipping fraud.

    6. 6
      44:56

      I'll Let Myself In: Tactics of Physical Pen Testers

      Wild West Hackin' Fest · 2.9M views · 8 years ago

      Deviant Ollam shows how professional break-in teams get through doors with a bit of wire and some confidence, and why physical security is so often the weak link.

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      1:55:54

      Elevator Hacking: From the Pit to the Penthouse

      DeviantOllam · 889K views · 12 years ago

      HN's go-to link whenever elevators come up: two hours on how they work and how to get one to take you where you are not allowed, which commenters say they watched in one sitting.

    8. 8
      10:41

      Ralph Langner: Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon

      TED · 323K views · 15 years ago

      An 11-minute account of how Langner's team worked out that Stuxnet was a state-built weapon aimed at industrial controllers, and a good primer for the next talk.

    9. 9
      1:14:56

      27C3: Adventures in analyzing Stuxnet (Bruce Dang from Microsoft)

      basti0007 · 95K views · 15 years ago

      The first-hand version from Microsoft's analyst, which HN calls the definitive walk through each of Stuxnet's zero-days.

    10. 10
      38:22

      Kim Nilsson - Cracking MtGox

      TheBitcoinArmy · 47K views · 9 years ago

      The investigator who traced Mt. Gox's missing bitcoins explains what actually happened, in what HN calls the clearest and most even-handed account of the collapse.

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      1:04:25

      #HITB2012KUL D1T3 - The Grugq - OPSEC: Because Jail is for wuftpd

      Hack In The Box Security Conference · 158K views · 13 years ago

      The Grugq goes through hacker indictments to show how people who thought they were careful got caught, and HN treats it as the essential opsec talk.

    12. 12
      50:59

      DEF CON 22 - Adrian Crenshaw- Dropping Docs on Darknets: How People Got Caught

      DEFCONConference · 219K views · 11 years ago

      Silk Road and other darknet busts, case by case, showing that the operators' own mistakes mattered far more than any flaw in Tor.

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      53:00

      The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster And No One Knew

      Veritasium · 16M views · 8 months ago

      To close, Veritasium's documentary on the xz backdoor: an attacker who spent years earning a maintainer's trust and very nearly compromised SSH across Linux.