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Blackberry Application Security; Get The Application Binary. [closed]
I'd like to perform security testing on a blackbbery application.
Nowadays, the application world is only accessible with a blackberry service. At first, I'd like to install the application from ...
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Is it safer to compile open source code vs simply running the binary?
I understand that with OpenSource software, my milage may vary based on the trust of the author and the distribution platform they use (Codeplex, Git, or private server).
Oftentimes a FOSS website ...
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How to run client's code on server securely
I'm working on a project basically a web application. It accepts code (java, c, c++) from client, compile and execute on server and return the results back to client.
As I'm going to execute code on ...
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Does a binary executable have to have some critical plain-text components?
When companies package binary executables, they are often encrypted, compressed, scrambled, and otherwise made so that your lazy hacker can't simply open the program up in Notepad++ and see the code.
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Debugging and DLL-Injection
Hi I currently reading Gray Hat Python to learn about Debugging and various interesting techniques for binary analysis.
So far I have learned an amazing amount of stuff (just read about ...
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Are GUID visible when compiling a .NET project?
I know if a person has a GUID from a machine that person can figure out if other guid belongs to that machine.
In a .NET project (csproj and the visual studions solution file) GUIDs are generated. If ...
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Does the endianness used with an encryption algorithm affect its security?
I'm implementing the AES block cipher, which reads/writes data in 16 byte blocks. The implementation I'm working with usually read data in the little endian format. But in my platform the endianness ...
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How to inject executable, malicious code into PDF, JPEG, MP3, etc.?
I wanted to know if its generally possible to inject executable code into files like PDFs or JPEGs etc., or must there be some kind of security hole in the application?
And if so, how would one do ...
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Code Analysis: Binary vs Source
While conducting a software security assessment, if you have access to the source code of a compiled application (say C++), would you ever do any analysis upon the compiled version, either with any ...
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Storing private asymmetric key in application binary?
I would like to give a daemon-style process (i.e. no user interaction) access to a shared secret key so that it can access a shared, encrypted data file. User applications accessing the same encrypted ...
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Any comprehensive solutions for binary code protection and anti-reverse-engineering?
Does anyone know of good products with comprehensive binary hardening and anti-reverse-engineering features? Or better, has anyone seen an independent review comparing products that perform these ...
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What is the corrupted image vulnerability? How does it work?
What exactly happens when someone injects malicious binary code into an image file (on Windows)? How is that done?
