But in fact, you can use reverse engineering ethically to research commercially available products, enhance software security, improve software capabilities and carry out other development tasks.

This excerpt is from Chapter 3, "Reverse Engineering and Program Understanding," from the book Exploiting Software by Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw.

The ease at which criminals can reverse engineer software makes for lucrative transgressions with national security implications, prompting government-backed researchers to seek innovations to shore ...

Reverse engineering of software has become more popular in recent years, as well, with original developers and reverse engineers continually one-upping each other in an attempt to protect their ...

Here’s an example: We helped develop a universal battery that could power multiple types of drones. As part of that effort, we had to reverse engineer the communication protocols used by various ...

For example, if we are looking for a space claim model or if we need to run finite element analysis (FEA), we'll utilize the format as received from the reverse engineering software.

3D scanners and reverse-engineering software make short work of redesigning enclosures and internal parts for complex products.

Once he figured out how to give the hardware hashes to work on over the UART interface, he setup a little head-to-head competition between the software he wrote to command the Antminer S1 and the ...

Google has announced the release of security software BinDiff for free. In a blog post on Monday, Google software engineer Christian Blichmann said the software, a creation of zynamics-- which was ...

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 ...