Understanding how hardware and firmware/software work together to perform desired functions or tasks is an important enabler to unlocking the value of intellectual properties in the systems (including ...

Taking things apart to see how they work is an important part of understanding a system, and that goes for software as much as for hardware. You can get a jump start on your firmware reverse ...

Reverse engineering-embedded firmware reveals how Wi-Fi chips operate beyond standard specifications. Security researchers Daniel Wegemer and Edoardo Mantovani spent two years analyzing MediaTek ...

The United States’ National Security Agency is planning to open-source an internally developed reverse-engineering framework for popular operating systems this spring. The framework, called GHIDRA, is ...

Sometimes when a piece of electronics lands on the bench, you find that its chips have their markings sanded off. The manufacturer is trying to make the task of the reverse engineer less easy, thus ...

In this excerpt, from Chapter 3 of their new book Exploiting Software, authors Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw explain the concepts and methods of reverse engineering and the tools that can be used to ...

Software reverse engineering, the art of pulling programs apart to figure out how they work, is what makes it possible for sophisticated hackers to scour code for exploitable bugs. It's also what ...

SEONGNAM, South Korea--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DREAMTNS Co., Ltd. announced that it has released PointShape™ Design software on April 18th, which is used for creating parametric CAD models of real-world ...

Researchers with a DARPA-led team are looking into new ways to combat reverse engineering by using obfuscation to tidy up shoddy commercial and government security. Researchers with a DARPA-led team ...

Dropbox might be the most widely used cloud storage and sharing service in the world, with over 25 million users and adding about 200 million files daily, but its security is constantly being ...