As far as I know this has been happening for some time, sometimes a patch comes out for a vulnerability that many people don’t know about (including the hackers) so they will see what problem the patch fixes (possibly through reverse engineering) then develop an exploit to leverage on the flaw.
It seems things are a [...]
It looks like someone is going after the bad guys in a new way, by hacking them back! It’s no news to us that many hacking tools and script kiddy trojan kits are badly programmed..a lot of them have back-doors and the client-side tools have easy exploits that enable you to take over the ‘hackers’ [...]
I saw a pretty interesting article a few days attempting to reverse engineer the mosaic tool used often online to obscure sensitive or confidential information.
The article shows that the mosaic isn’t actually very random, and in a way you can brute force reverse engineer the mosaic to reveal the contents before they were obscured.
It’s ok [...]
The first round results of the Linux Reverse Engineering Hacker Challenge are out!
http://www.hackerchallenge.org
It was expected that an intermediate hacker with Linux experience should be able to defeat the protection(s) in less than 10 hours. Participants may earn up to $4100 USD.
A total of 93 individuals registered to participate in the first Hacker Challenge. Individuals were [...]
Ethical debates are always interesting, and people have gotten in trouble lately for reverse engineering and various other branches of research.
This is a fairly old topic, but as I’m clearing out some old drafts, I still find it an interesting one.
There’s been an ongoing debate in security circles concerning how security researchers should disclose vulnerabilities [...]
The eEye Binary Diffing Suite (EBDS) is a free and open source set of utilities for performing automated binary differential analysis. This becomes very useful for reverse engineering patches as well as program updates.
The first tool is BDS, the Binary Diffing Starter from Andre Derek Protas. This tool helps reverse engineers with batch-analysis of patches [...]
The Universal Hooker is a tool to intercept execution of programs. It enables the
user to intercept calls to API calls inside DLLs, and also arbitrary addresses within the executable file in memory.
Why is it ‘Universal’? There are different ways of hooking functions in a program, for example, it can be done by setting software breakpoints [...]
This could be the end of reverse engineering in France sadly, I hope it doesn’t have repucussions in other parts of the world.
I think it’s the end of using reverse engineering tools to find flaws in France. Maybe the next step will be to forbid the possession of debuggers and disassemblers.
It’s a valid course of [...]
