RCE on Reddit- Light and Dark side of Code Instrumentation [PDF] May 17, 2013
- UbiCrypt Summer School 2013 - Reverse Engineering May 16, 2013
- Introduction to Windows Kernel Security Research May 16, 2013
- NoSuchCon 2013 talks May 16, 2013
- GreHack 2013 - 2nd Call For Papers - November 15, Grenoble, France May 16, 2013
- Help with an app designed to work with another brand of action camera. (/r/hacking/ x-post) May 16, 2013
- Tools for memory visualization May 16, 2013
- The Cray Files May 15, 2013
- Recon 2013 Talks selection May 15, 2013
- The Bieber Algorithm May 15, 2013
- OSNews
- NixOS May 18, 2013
- AIDE v2 adds C/C++ support May 18, 2013
- How Google updated Android without releasing version 4.3 May 17, 2013
- A journey through the CPU pipeline May 17, 2013
- Intel CEO on not getting Intel inside the iPhone May 17, 2013
Author Archives: Daniel Pistelli
MUI files under the hood
Have you ever copied after Vista a system file like notepad.exe onto the desktop and tried to execute it? Have you ever tried after Vista to modify the resources of a system file like regedit.exe? It’s most likely that neither … Continue reading
Preparing a bugfix version of CFF Explorer
It has been many years since the last update of what had started as a hobby side-project when I was 19. I’m sorry that I haven’t updated the CFF for such a long time, given that thousands of people use … Continue reading
Companies on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
This is basically a continuation of the previous post about the biggest software delusions of the last decade. In hindsight I would have set rather a different tone for what I wrote, less rant and more technical, but the problem … Continue reading
The biggest software delusions of the last decade
… or how Microsoft is trying to lose its dominant position. It’s not only about Microsoft of course. Other big companies have made mistakes, but Microsoft is surely the company which has made most of them in the last ten … Continue reading
Posted in Critique, Programming
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Software Theft FAIL
… Or why stealing software is stupid (and wrong). A small guide to detect software theft for those who are not reverse engineers. Under my previous post the user Xylitol reported a web-page (hxyp://martik-scorp.blogspot.com/2010/12/show-me-loaded-drivers.html) by someone called “Martik Panosian” claiming … Continue reading
Posted in Programming, Trivia
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A malware with my name
There’s a malware circulating that contains my name in its version information. I’m, of course, not the author (putting one’s own name in the version info would be brilliant). I’m clarifying, as three people already contacted me about it since … Continue reading
CFF Explorer 7.9 & Secunia
Today I’ve received a Secunia report email about a buffer overflow vulnerability in the CFF Explorer. I was quite amused =). I mean, I usually get emails sent me by users about bugs in the CFF, never got an email … Continue reading
IDAQ: The result of 7 months at Hex-Rays
It is not a mistery that Hex-Rays is preparing for the IDA 6.0 beta program. In this post I’ll write a bit about my personal, behind the scenes, experience with the project. It took me 7 months to port/rewrite the … Continue reading
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Rebel.NET & Phoenix Protector Update
Both suffered from a bug where they’d fail in case the assembly to reproduce/protect didn’t have a .rsrc section. Since at the time I wrote the code all .NET assemblies had a .rsrc section, I took it for granted and … Continue reading
PDF Insider Demo
A small, on the fly video presentation of my new utility. The emphasis of this application stands on parsing correctly the PDF format, if it can’t because the PDF is malformed (very common among malicious PDFs), then it provides the … Continue reading