Introduction   I stumbled into infosec the same year the NSA graced us with Ghidra. It’s by far become the most used tool in ...
Reversing software code is often perceived as a shady activity or straight-up hacking. But in fact, you can use reverse engineering ethically to research commercially available products, enhance ...
The topic of reverse engineering is highly contentious at best when it comes to software and hardware development. Ever since the configuration protocol (bitstream) for Lattice Semiconductor’s iCE40 ...
In the world of cybersecurity and software development, binary analysis holds a unique place. It is the art of examining compiled programs to understand their functionality, identify vulnerabilities, ...
The National Security Agency (NSA), the same agency that brought you blockbuster malware Stuxnet, has now released Ghidra, an open-source reverse engineering framework, to grow the number of reverse ...
Should you be able to brick a keyboard just by writing a driver to flash the lights on it? We don’t think so either. [TheNotary] got quite the shock when embarking on a seemingly straightforward ...
“To ensure you steer clear of any legal risk of reverse engineering, it should be performed only to the extent of allowances, such as for accessing ideas, facts, and functional concepts contained in ...
My digital design company was recently tasked with reverse engineering an existing product. The idea was to rewrite and stabilize a large application that had no specifications. Since most of the ...
Diablo's source code is now available for your perusal, courtesy of a reverse engineering project called Devilution. The project aims to make the old code available for documentation, maintenance, and ...