Posted in computer security, reverse engineering on Oct 4th, 2008 No Comments »
To all the hacker’s delight, the Hacker Reversing Challenge 2008 is back again with the bang. This challenge is carried out in three phases as in the last year and there is huge prize money for the winners as well as the participants.
If you have participated in the last year’s challenge then you all know [...]
Posted in Security Books, computer security, reverse engineering, vulnerability research on Jan 31st, 2008 1 Comment »
There is yet another book on the reversing arena which promises great deal of things. The books is titled “Reverse Engineering Code with IDA Pro” is set to release during the second week of February 2008. So far very few books have been released in the reverse engineering field. Also there is a need [...]
Posted in computer security, reverse engineering on Jan 19th, 2008 1 Comment »
This is the international reverse engineering challenge conducted by one of the U.S based security company. The purpose of this challenge is to evaluate the effectiveness of software protections. The contest is carried out in 3 phases where first and third phase involved breaking the protection of custom programs by [...]
Posted in computer security, hidden myths, reverse engineering on Dec 16th, 2007 3 Comments »
Almost everyone involved in the reverse engineering knows about the timer checks used for antidebugging. Generally functions such as GetTickCount or KeTickCount are used to detect and prevent any debugging attempts. Recently in the Hackers Reversing Challenge 2007, one of the less known timer checks have been used which makes use of functions QueryPerformanceFrequency & [...]
Posted in reverse engineering, virtualization on Dec 7th, 2007 No Comments »
One of the big event in the IT arena, FOSS.IN is taking place at Bangalore, the IT capital of India. It is fully packed with various presentations from big-wigs of open source community presenting some of the new stuffs and giving insight into the latest FOSS activities taking place across the world.
I went there with [...]
Posted in computer security, reverse engineering on Aug 4th, 2007 9 Comments »
F-Secure has announced new Reverse Engineering Challenge for the summer assembly event. The challenge is very interesting and neither easy nor difficult. It has 3 levels, at each level you have to find out email address which will take you to the next level.
The challenge was announced a day back and already 18 people including [...]
Posted in computer security, hidden myths, reverse engineering, rootkits on Jul 15th, 2007 No Comments »
Debuggers are the main tool used in reverse engineering. It is used by serial crackers to break the software protection or to uncover the algorithm used in the proprietary applications. On the other hand it is also used by researchers to analyze the malwares.
Detecting the presence of debuggers is an important step in this direction. [...]
Posted in computer security, reverse engineering, security tools, vulnerability research on Jun 18th, 2007 1 Comment »
ProcHeapViewer is a fast heap enumeration tool which uses better technique than normal Windows heap API functions. Its very useful tool for anyone involved in analyzing process heaps. Vulnerability researchers can find it useful while working on heap related vulnerabilities.
Traditional Windows heap enumeration functions are slower and takes lot of time while [...]
Posted in computer security, reverse engineering, vulnerability research on May 24th, 2007 2 Comments »
ReactOS® is an advanced free open source operating system providing a ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows® XP compatible operating system. ReactOS is currently in its alpha stage and there is long way to go.Though its not exact replica of Windows XP, its near match. Moreover all function names are same as that of [...]
Posted in computer security, reverse engineering, vulnerability research on May 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
iDefense who created the waves in the security world by introducing the vulnerability research program has started new game for researchers to find out the remotely exploitable flaw in critical internet applications. The game is open for second & third quarters of this year giving ample time for researchers to find the vulnerability.
Following are [...]
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