COMMENTARY--I can imagine a world where the computers needed no security. Where there were no passwords, no security checks, and no firewalls. Where the computers communicated freely and shared ...

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"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 ...

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 ...

The art of obfuscation has a grand history, from ‘I’m Spartacus!’ to ghost radar in WWII. Could the same blurred approach give us more freedom online? At the heart of Cambridge University, there’s a ...

Blackrota is targeting a security bug in Docker, but is nearly impossible to reverse-analyze. Researchers have discovered a new backdoor written in the Go programming language (Golang), which turned ...

Daniel Howe wants to shift the balance of power between advertisers and consumers. So, with collaborators Helen Nissenbaum and Mushon Zer-Aviv, he developed a browser plugin, AdNauseum, to thwart ...