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Created: Monday, May 4 2009 16:59.19 CDT Modified: Monday, May 4 2009 16:59.19 CDT
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Book Review - Growing Software
Author: sp # Views: 1923

Growing Software - Proven Strategies for Managing Software Engineers (Amazon / Official Website) written by Louis Testa is the latest No Starch Press book I received a free review copy of (thank you No Starch Press). Imagine that you are working for a mid-sized software development company and you were recently promoted to become the manager of a small development team. Now you have to figure out how to plan and schedule the software development process and how to manage the people in your team. Growing Software wants to assist you with this.

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Created: Saturday, April 4 2009 18:35.21 CDT Modified: Saturday, April 4 2009 18:35.21 CDT
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An unconnected string of thoughts about BinNavi 2.1
Author: sp # Views: 2067

Staying true to our 6 months release cycle we will probably release BinNavi 2.1, the latest version of our binary code reverse engineering tool, next week. After BinNavi 1.5 and BinNavi 2.0 this is the third release of BinNavi I have been in charge of. I want to take this opportunity to talk about the features I like most in BinNavi 2.1. You can actually find a more or less complete list of what is new in BinNavi 2.1 compared to BinNavi 2.0 over here.


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Created: Friday, March 13 2009 17:14.46 CDT Modified: Friday, March 13 2009 17:14.46 CDT
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A flurry of Web 2.0
Author: sp # Views: 1849

A few months ago my friend Rolf Rolles created the Reverse Engineering reddit. Its pretty awesome. It focuses on random reverse engineering related articles and lots and lots of academic papers, mostly for static code analysis. The submission quality is pretty high (or the moderators reject a lot of submissions, I dont really know). So just in case you are not aware of this reddit yet, I suggest you hop over there and subscribe to it.

While we are at it, for those of you stalking me already. I have a Twitter account now. That should make your job easier.


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Created: Monday, March 9 2009 20:08.42 CDT Modified: Monday, March 9 2009 20:08.42 CDT
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Book Review - Profiling Hackers
Author: sp # Views: 2659

In late 2008 Raoul Chiesa, Stefania Ducci, and Silvio Ciappi published an interesting book called Profiling Hackers (Amazon). The idea behind this book is simple: Police officers use profiling to find criminals. Hackers often do illegal things. Police officers therefore need to profile hackers. Most police officers do not have a clue about hackers though. On 240 pages divided into seven chapters this book tries to help them by explaining what Hackers are like.


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Created: Friday, March 6 2009 17:27.56 CST Modified: Friday, March 6 2009 17:27.56 CST
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CanSecWest 2009
Author: sp # Views: 2391

In a bit less than two weeks I will be attending CanSecWest 2009. If anybody wants to meet me there to talk about reverse engineering, static code analysis, BinNavi, or why Sierpinski triangles are tools of the devil please contact me. You can find my contact information on the right side of this website.

If you do not want to talk about any of the above, you can still watch my talk and tell me your opinion about it. This would be much appreciated. Thank you.



Archived Entries for sp
Subject # Views Created On
FRHACK organizers are now threatening to sue me 4244     Sunday, March 1 2009
IT Security Girl of the Year 1828     Sunday, February 22 2009
Book Review - The Adventures of Dr Debugalov 1105     Tuesday, February 17 2009
Chaos Communication Congress 2008 673     Friday, December 12 2008
x86 instruction generator 2053     Saturday, November 15 2008
Book Review - The Art of Debugging with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse 2019     Tuesday, November 4 2008
hack.lu 2008 1991     Wednesday, October 15 2008
BinNavi 2.0 Preview 2108     Sunday, September 28 2008
Book Review - The IDA Pro Book 2398     Tuesday, September 9 2008
Book Review - Dreaming in Code 2145     Sunday, July 20 2008
Some Win32 API usage statistics 2576     Saturday, July 12 2008
Hotch 1.0.0 1734     Thursday, July 10 2008
Hexer 1.4.0 2030     Tuesday, July 1 2008
Extending the Hexer Structure Viewer using a plugin written in JRuby 1921     Friday, June 27 2008
Hexer 1.3.0 1694     Sunday, June 22 2008
RECON 2008 1749     Tuesday, June 10 2008
Book Review - Advanced Windows Debugging 2154     Monday, May 12 2008
Release of Hexer 1.2.0 2008     Sunday, May 4 2008
Book Review - Reverse Engineering Code with IDA Pro 3122     Tuesday, April 22 2008
Hexer 1.1.0 1668     Sunday, April 13 2008
Sample Hexer Plugin: Calculating the entropy of a file 2065     Thursday, April 10 2008
Book Review - The New School of Information Security 1201     Friday, April 4 2008
Release of Hexer 1.0.0 1558     Wednesday, April 2 2008
Hexer 1.0.0 1801     Saturday, March 22 2008
Pair Reverse Engineering 1306     Thursday, December 13 2007
A brief analysis of 40,000 leaked MySpace passwords 3977     Thursday, November 1 2007
I finished college, yay 1568     Wednesday, October 10 2007
Book review: The Art of Software Security Assessment 2303     Sunday, August 19 2007
RubLib 0.04 2385     Saturday, February 10 2007
Release of FCEUXD SP 1.07 2272     Thursday, February 1 2007
RubLib 0.03 2270     Thursday, January 25 2007
Data-mining Wikipedia II 2150     Monday, January 22 2007
Data-mining Wikipedia 2258     Saturday, January 20 2007
Pythia 1.1 2702     Friday, January 19 2007
Book review: The Algorithm Design Manual 1817     Monday, January 8 2007
Book review: Programming Interviews Exposed 1626     Friday, January 5 2007
Its the little surprises ... 2129     Wednesday, December 13 2006
Some thoughts on freshmen programming classes 1782     Tuesday, December 12 2006
Book review - Hackers Delight 1523     Wednesday, December 6 2006
Converting strings to upper case is tricky 1110     Monday, November 20 2006
The case of the mysteriously hanging InstallShield 1887     Wednesday, October 11 2006
Book review - A quintuple of math books 1731     Friday, October 6 2006
F-Secure Khallenge - Level 3 1962     Monday, August 7 2006
rublib 0.02 1620     Saturday, July 22 2006
A higher level API for IdaRub 1545     Friday, July 21 2006
First experiences with IdaRub 1479     Thursday, July 20 2006
I still dont need ringtones 1696     Tuesday, July 18 2006
I dont need ringtones or insurance 1633     Monday, July 17 2006
The origin of the term class 1257     Monday, June 19 2006
My solution to the CSSRT-LU malware contest 1492     Tuesday, May 16 2006
Software updated 1444     Saturday, April 8 2006
Some ideas about extending the IDA GUI with plugins 1749     Monday, February 27 2006
idadoc 1.00 1543     Saturday, February 4 2006
Porting the InstructionCounter plugin to Python 1844     Saturday, January 21 2006
IDA InstructionCounter plugin 1.02 1581     Monday, January 9 2006
Book review: The Haskell School of Expression 1881     Tuesday, January 3 2006
Release of FCEUXD SP 1.06 1792     Thursday, December 15 2005
Crimson Editor syntax files for the Z specification language 1533     Thursday, December 1 2005
Its quine time 1474     Sunday, November 27 2005
InstructionCounter plugin for IDA Pro 1655     Friday, November 25 2005
Two new F4I license infringements found 1497     Thursday, November 17 2005
Proof that F4I violates the GPL 1550     Thursday, November 17 2005
Breakthrough after breakthrough in the F4I case 1700     Thursday, November 17 2005
Is F4I in violation of the LGPL? - Part III 1452     Wednesday, November 16 2005
Is Sony in violation of the LGPL? - Part II 1160     Tuesday, November 15 2005
Is Sony in violation of the LGPL? 1379     Monday, November 14 2005

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