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, ...

Opening up things, see how they work, and make them do what you want are just the basic needs of the average hacker. In some cases, a screwdriver and multimeter will do the job, but in other cases a ...

With ransomware attacks running rampant, nation-state actors targeting foreign companies and governments, and democracy under siege through misinformation campaigns, cybersecurity plays an ...

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 ...

IDA Pro from Hex-Rays is probably the most popular tool today for reverse-engineering software. For ESET researchers, this tool is a favorite disassembler and has inspired the development of the ...

For years, I interviewed extreme high achievers such as Nobel laureates, astronauts, and Olympic champions to figure out what made them successful. I then reverse-engineered their path to success and ...

The two-year effort to decompile Super Mario 64 wasn’t started with a Windows executable in mind. Instead, it was motivated primarily by speedrunners who wanted “to understand the game’s code better ...

China’s Military Copycat Strategy: Innovation or Imitation? China, a country that historically pioneered the compass, gunpowder, and paper, has, in recent decades, gained a reputation for imitation ...