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LiveOverflow
5 / 5
Fabian Faessler's channel on binary exploitation, reverse engineering, and the patient curiosity that turns CTF tricks into intuitions.
- Creators
- Fabian Faessler
- Running
- 2015–
- Handle
- @LiveOverflow
- Network
- Independent
- Status
- Active
- Language
- English
Watch if
Anyone moving past the surface of exploitation — buffer overflows, format strings, heap, modern mitigations. The single best YouTube curriculum for the on-ramp.
Skip if
Viewers wanting fast, polished tutorials. LiveOverflow's pedagogy is deliberately exploratory; the value is in watching the thinking, not consuming the conclusion.
Key takeaways
- The 'Binary Exploitation / Memory Corruption' playlist is the cleanest free curriculum on the topic, period.
- Faessler is unusually honest about what he doesn't know on camera — that vulnerability is the show's pedagogical engine.
- Pair the channel with pwn.college for guided lab work; the videos teach the why, the labs teach the doing.
Notes
Faessler is also a serious CTF player (Allesctf, Eat Sleep Pwn Repeat). The CTF write-up videos are some of the best surfacings of why specific bug classes still matter in 2026.