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 ...

When most people think of reverse engineering, they probably have thoughts of disassembling some high-tech component or software code and learning what makes it tick, and then creating knockoffs for ...

Cyclic redundancy codes (CRC) are a type of checksum commonly used to detect errors in data transmission. For instance, every Ethernet packet that brought you the web page you’re reading now carried ...

Most organizations track Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to stay aligned with strategic goals—but what if we’ve been using them backward? Instead of treating KPIs as static metrics or top-down ...

WHEN MOST PEOPLE think of reverse engineering, they probably have thoughts of disassembling some high-tech component or software code and learning what makes it tick, and then creating knock-offs for ...

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 ...

The National Security Agency (NSA), the same agency that brought you blockbuster malware Stuxnet, has now released Ghidra, an open-source reverse engineering framework, to grow the number of reverse ...

In the context of software, reverse engineering includes, but is not limited to: access and copy of software as a means of subsequently creating a similar, often derivative product. Less certain is ...

“To ensure you steer clear of any legal risk of reverse engineering, it should be performed only to the extent of allowances, such as for accessing ideas, facts, and functional concepts contained in ...

Continuing his reverse-engineering of the Intel 8087, [Ken Shirriff] covers the conditional tests that are implemented in the microcode of this floating point processing unit (FPU). This microcode ...