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 ...

I am the founder and CEO of Apriorit, a software development company that provides engineering services globally to tech companies. As the leader of a software engineering company, I know how a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Portable CMMs and software make reverse engineering useful for modifications, new designs, and duplicating parts without drawings. If you can measure an object, you can reverse engineer it. The key is ...

White hat hacker reverse engineers financial apps and finds a treasure trove of security issues. A white hat hacker reverse engineered 30 mobile financial applications and found sensitive data buried ...

Recently a client asked me for advice on setting up a reverse engineering project. The company had just hired a senior engineer from a competitor that had pulled ahead of them the year before with the ...

3D scanners and reverse-engineering software make short work of redesigning enclosures and internal parts for complex products. Manufacturers must often reverse engineer existing products to improve ...

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 ...