The Android platform has become one of the go-to choices for developers and device manufacturers in the last year or so, and that popularity has of course attracted the attention of attackers who have ...

While not necessarily an easy thing to learn, the ability to reverse engineer embedded device firmware is an incredibly useful skill. Reverse engineering firmware allows you to analyze a device for ...

Ever wonder where all those weird clones and nasty apps come from? It turns out that cracking open an Android app, messing with its guts, and repackaging it can be done in just minutes. Since my start ...

Opening up things, see how they work, and make them do what you want are just the basic needs of the average hacker. In some cases, a screwdriver and multimeter will do the job, but in other cases a ...

A recent analysis of the 150 top Android apps by Norwegian cybersecurity firm Promon found that 144 of them could be successfully configured to operate within the controlled testing environment of 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 ...