The topic of reverse engineering is highly contentious at best when it comes to software and hardware development. Ever since the configuration protocol (bitstream) for Lattice Semiconductor’s iCE40 ...

Reversing software code is often perceived as a shady activity or straight-up hacking. But in fact, you can use reverse engineering ethically to research commercially available products, enhance ...

Artificial intelligence has dramatically expanded the toolkit available for reverse engineering, and in-house counsel might ...

A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision shedding doubt on the legality of reverse engineering could have a significant impact on the way software is commonly developed and improved. The legality of ...

Companies and inventors often will engage in reverse engineering to analyze an existing product for the purpose of determining how the product works. The ultimate goal is usually to make a competing ...

In the context of software, reverse engineering includes, but is not limited to: access and copy of software as a means of subsequently creating a similar, often derivative product. Less certain is ...

[0xricksanchez] participated in a software reverse-engineering challenge and recently wrote up the solution, and in so doing also documented the process used to discover it. The challenge was called ...

The United States’ National Security Agency is planning to open-source an internally developed reverse-engineering framework for popular operating systems this spring. The framework, called GHIDRA, is ...

SEONGNAM, South Korea--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DREAMTNS Co., Ltd. announced that it has released PointShape™ Design software on April 18th, which is used for creating parametric CAD models of real-world ...

A U.S. Supreme Court decision could call into question a common practice among software companies: studying competitors’ products to improve their own offerings. The legality of this practice, called ...

“Reverse engineering” has something of a negative connotation. People tend to associate it with corporate espionage or creative desperation. In reality, reverse engineering is a useful skill and a ...