Programmers learning Rust struggle to understand own ership types, Rust’s core mechanism for ensuring memory safety without garbage collection. This paper describes our process of systematically ...

Most tasks follow a linear relationship: the more difficult a task, the longer it usually takes. Reverse engineering (and binary analysis) is a task in which the actual difficulty is somewhat trivial, ...

Pakkero is a binary packer written in Go made for fun and educational purpose. Its main goal is to take in input a program file (elf binary, script, even appimage) and compress it, protect it from ...

Available as both an IDA plugin and a Python script, Nimfilt helps to reverse engineer binaries compiled with the Nim programming language compiler by demangling package and function names, and ...

Preparing for coding interviews can be a real challenge with developers often spending several weeks reviewing and learning new material. The truth is, that most developers never quite feel fully ...

Always looks for strings/constants. Make guesses about the original source. Find a function you can recognise and work backwards to identify other functions. It helps if they use open-source code so ...

The process of preparing for coding interviews is anxiety-inducing for many developers. There’s so much material to cover, and often much of it feels irrelevant to what devs are doing in their day ...

What did Libyan officials think they would get from the 2003 deal? Why did they abandon the nuclear weapons program and what were their reactions to the outcome of the deal prior to the 2011 uprising?

If you usually work with non-trivial C sources, you may have wondered which execution path (that is, which sequence of function calls) brought you to a certain point in your program. Also, it would be ...