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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: 2104

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: 2221

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: 2006

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: 2822

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: 2566

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 4364     Sunday, March 1 2009
IT Security Girl of the Year 1899     Sunday, February 22 2009
Book Review - The Adventures of Dr Debugalov 1190     Tuesday, February 17 2009
Chaos Communication Congress 2008 727     Friday, December 12 2008
x86 instruction generator 2133     Saturday, November 15 2008
Book Review - The Art of Debugging with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse 2102     Tuesday, November 4 2008
hack.lu 2008 2077     Wednesday, October 15 2008
BinNavi 2.0 Preview 2201     Sunday, September 28 2008
Book Review - The IDA Pro Book 2481     Tuesday, September 9 2008
Book Review - Dreaming in Code 2227     Sunday, July 20 2008
Some Win32 API usage statistics 2657     Saturday, July 12 2008
Hotch 1.0.0 1823     Thursday, July 10 2008
Hexer 1.4.0 2114     Tuesday, July 1 2008
Extending the Hexer Structure Viewer using a plugin written in JRuby 1988     Friday, June 27 2008
Hexer 1.3.0 1780     Sunday, June 22 2008
RECON 2008 1834     Tuesday, June 10 2008
Book Review - Advanced Windows Debugging 2226     Monday, May 12 2008
Release of Hexer 1.2.0 2096     Sunday, May 4 2008
Book Review - Reverse Engineering Code with IDA Pro 3187     Tuesday, April 22 2008
Hexer 1.1.0 1750     Sunday, April 13 2008
Sample Hexer Plugin: Calculating the entropy of a file 2145     Thursday, April 10 2008
Book Review - The New School of Information Security 1282     Friday, April 4 2008
Release of Hexer 1.0.0 1636     Wednesday, April 2 2008
Hexer 1.0.0 1893     Saturday, March 22 2008
Pair Reverse Engineering 1376     Thursday, December 13 2007
A brief analysis of 40,000 leaked MySpace passwords 4062     Thursday, November 1 2007
I finished college, yay 1645     Wednesday, October 10 2007
Book review: The Art of Software Security Assessment 2381     Sunday, August 19 2007
RubLib 0.04 2440     Saturday, February 10 2007
Release of FCEUXD SP 1.07 2352     Thursday, February 1 2007
RubLib 0.03 2341     Thursday, January 25 2007
Data-mining Wikipedia II 2227     Monday, January 22 2007
Data-mining Wikipedia 2317     Saturday, January 20 2007
Pythia 1.1 2812     Friday, January 19 2007
Book review: The Algorithm Design Manual 1878     Monday, January 8 2007
Book review: Programming Interviews Exposed 1693     Friday, January 5 2007
Its the little surprises ... 2201     Wednesday, December 13 2006
Some thoughts on freshmen programming classes 1843     Tuesday, December 12 2006
Book review - Hackers Delight 1588     Wednesday, December 6 2006
Converting strings to upper case is tricky 1187     Monday, November 20 2006
The case of the mysteriously hanging InstallShield 1976     Wednesday, October 11 2006
Book review - A quintuple of math books 1806     Friday, October 6 2006
F-Secure Khallenge - Level 3 2031     Monday, August 7 2006
rublib 0.02 1703     Saturday, July 22 2006
A higher level API for IdaRub 1623     Friday, July 21 2006
First experiences with IdaRub 1561     Thursday, July 20 2006
I still dont need ringtones 1771     Tuesday, July 18 2006
I dont need ringtones or insurance 1699     Monday, July 17 2006
The origin of the term class 1349     Monday, June 19 2006
My solution to the CSSRT-LU malware contest 1573     Tuesday, May 16 2006
Software updated 1530     Saturday, April 8 2006
Some ideas about extending the IDA GUI with plugins 1808     Monday, February 27 2006
idadoc 1.00 1615     Saturday, February 4 2006
Porting the InstructionCounter plugin to Python 1929     Saturday, January 21 2006
IDA InstructionCounter plugin 1.02 1647     Monday, January 9 2006
Book review: The Haskell School of Expression 1969     Tuesday, January 3 2006
Release of FCEUXD SP 1.06 1848     Thursday, December 15 2005
Crimson Editor syntax files for the Z specification language 1599     Thursday, December 1 2005
Its quine time 1543     Sunday, November 27 2005
InstructionCounter plugin for IDA Pro 1736     Friday, November 25 2005
Two new F4I license infringements found 1579     Thursday, November 17 2005
Proof that F4I violates the GPL 1616     Thursday, November 17 2005
Breakthrough after breakthrough in the F4I case 1761     Thursday, November 17 2005
Is F4I in violation of the LGPL? - Part III 1493     Wednesday, November 16 2005
Is Sony in violation of the LGPL? - Part II 1213     Tuesday, November 15 2005
Is Sony in violation of the LGPL? 1451     Monday, November 14 2005

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