Oracle to 'sinner' customers: Reverse engineering is a sin and we know best Opinion: Stop sending vulnerability reports already.

Oracle CSO Mary Ann Davidson wrote a rambling post excoriating customers for reverse engineering their code.

Knight said her reverse engineering efforts on 30 sample apps revealed 83 percent of the apps tested insecurely stored data outside of the apps control. For example, Knight said, data can be ...

The post set off an immediate firestorm in the security industry, which—aside from Oracle—has increasingly adopted a friendly attitude toward reverse engineers and benign hackers.

And reverse engineering can shorten development cycles of ontology and various database models. On this basis, we propose formal definition of FOOD models and fuzzy OWL 2 ontologies.

This stage is unavoidable, but reverse engineering allows you to significantly speed it up. For example, in developing custom cybersecurity software for forensics purposes, my team was asked to ...