Reverse Engineering For Vulnerability Research

Adam Gowdiak, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Menlo Park

Stevenson Hall 1300
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

Reverse engineering techniques are the "secret weapon" in every security researchers' bag. In many cases, application of these techniques is the only way to a successful (ending with a discovery of a high impact bug) software security audit. Regardless of the legal threats which reverse engineering people might face, this area has been gaining on popularity in the recent years. This talk will present latest trends in the reverse engineering area with a focus on the techniques used by security researchers to analyze binaries for security defects.