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Book Review - Growing Software

Mon, 04 May 2009 16:59:19 -0500

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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An unconnected string of thoughts about BinNavi 2.1

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:35:21 -0500

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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A flurry of Web 2.0

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:14:46 -0500

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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Book Review - Profiling Hackers

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:08:42 -0500

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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CanSecWest 2009

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:27:56 -0600

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.