Researchers say their new software obfuscation scheme is the first time this technique has been successfully accomplished where the underlying piece of software, such as a patch, could not be reverse ...

One of the consequences of developing applications with managed code such as .NET or Java is that source code extraction (reverse engineering) becomes a very simple task. Today more than 500,000 ...

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Blackrota is targeting a security bug in Docker, but is nearly impossible to reverse-analyze. Researchers have discovered a new backdoor written in the Go programming language (Golang), which turned ...

The usual criticism of the new media in our culture is that the media is making us less able to write well (not true), less inclined to read texts longer than a paragraph (not true), less social (an ...

Last month, my colleague Sébastien Duquette detailed the home campaign, a long-lasting operation consisting of compromised web servers running a malicious Apache module named Darkleech (detected by ...

At one point while browsing the web you have probably run into a web site that pretends to be Microsoft or Google stating that something is wrong with your computer and telling you to call a listed ...

There are plenty of tools out there that can decompile compiled assemblies and retrieve the original source code. These decompilers are a threat to your intellectual property, making it imperative ...