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The simplest form of technology is the development and use of basic tools. The prehistoric discovery of how to control fire and the later Neolithic Revolution increased the available sources of food, and the invention of the wheel helped humans to travel in and control their environment.
Imagine that you wrote a program for a problem that is very easy to solve. Each thread…
When you start using a new reverse engineering platform for the first time, it can be hard…
Hello there. I took a break from my Internet activity but here I am again. In this…
Introduction Apple designed the iOS platform with security at its core. When we set out to create…
Self-Parking Car in 500 Lines of Code TL;DR In this article, we’ll train the car to do…
Introduction It might be a bit funny to call this post “Hello IPv6”, since the first draft…
On December 20, Citizenlab published “The Great iPwn”, detailing how “Journalists [were] Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage…
After a month of reverse-engineering, we’re excited to release documentation on the Valhall instruction set, available as…
Explanation of the various GPU architectures The behavior of the graphics pipeline is practically standard across platforms…
Summary The REvil ransomware (a.k.a Sodinokibi) is a threat group that operates in the RaaS (Ransomware-as-a-Service) model, where the…
Programming language memory models answer the question of what behaviors parallel programs can rely on to share…
According to a cybersecurity specialist who responded to the attack, the hack that brought down the country’s…
Google is currently reworking its search algorithm to include Core Web Vitals as part of its search algorithm, which…
It was launched in January of 2020, when we made the fly “hemibrain” connectome available on the…
Released back in 2013, VeraCrypt picks up where TrueCrypt left off. Supporting more encryption algorithms, more hash…
Prosus, the company which develops online programming education programmes, said that it has inked a deal to…
Writing assembly is itself an art. When C, C++, or any other language is compiled, the compiler…
In light of the recent SolarWinds supply chain attack, I decided to take a quick look at…
In previous posts we wrote about our configuration distribution system Quicksilver and the story of migrating its storage engine to…
This post originally appears here One of the great arts of software engineering is making updates and…
This post originally appears here Cloudflare’s network processes more than fourteen million HTTP requests per second at…
In binary analysis, a recurrent problem is to track back a register or memory value (we will…
Today’s Go security release fixes an issue involving PATH lookups in untrusted directories that can lead to remote execution…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a series of attacks by a threat actor of Chinese origin that has targeted organizations…
Welcome! In this post, we’ll be taking a character-by-character look at the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer…
You should already know how big tech companies like Google or Facebook are using your private data to make revenue from…
Anti-cheat development is, by nature, reactive; anti-cheats exist to respond to and thwart a videogame’s population of…
When I ask my colleagues why mmap is faster than system calls, the answer is inevitably “system…
Author’s note: This article was originally found here. Introduction Much of the work done at Google, and…