Attackers are increasingly changing up the techniques used to obfuscate what their software is doing, with one group hiding parts of their code using a variety of techniques swapped out every 37 days ...

I am the founder and CEO of Apriorit, a software development company that provides engineering services globally to tech companies. Nowadays, cyber attackers are armed with an impressive range of ...

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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WikiLeaks dumped yesterday the source code of a CIA tool called Marble, which according to previously leaked CIA manuals, the Agency classified as a code obfuscation framework. The WikiLeaks dump ...

Disclosure: the author of this article is involved with the Ethereum project. There have been a number of very interesting developments in cryptography in the past few years. Satoshi’s blockchain ...

"Obfuscated code is source or machine code that has been made difficult to understand. Programmers may deliberately obfuscate code to conceal its purpose or its logic to prevent tampering, deter ...

Nope, however the general premise that obfuscation of code makes your software 'more secure' is bunk. If someone has a copy of your software and wants to hack it, they will. obfuscated or not.

Google announced today five new rules for the Chrome Web Store, the portal where users go to download Chrome extensions. The new rules are primarily meant to prevent malicious extensions from reaching ...

What does the demise of bitcode mean for the future of application security? Your email has been sent For app developers, Low-Level Virtual Machine bitcode has been a staple of Apple’s toolchain and ...