But in fact, you can use reverse engineering ethically to research commercially available products, enhance software security, improve software capabilities and carry out other development tasks.

This excerpt is from Chapter 3, "Reverse Engineering and Program Understanding," from the book Exploiting Software by Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw.

The ease at which criminals can reverse engineer software makes for lucrative transgressions with national security implications, prompting government-backed researchers to seek innovations to shore ...

Reverse-engineering features from multiple potential products into requirements is a systematic way to develop a comprehensive list of functional requirements, including unknown requirements.

My company’s experience shows that reverse engineering can be helpful at any stage of software development.

Reverse engineering of software has become more popular in recent years, as well, with original developers and reverse engineers continually one-upping each other in an attempt to protect their ...

TOP SECRET Software Reverse Engineering Network Defence performs reverse engineering both of malicious and ofnon- malicious code i.e,.code is translated from machine-readable to human-readable ...

Portable CMMs and software make reverse engineering useful for modifications, new designs, and duplicating parts without drawings.

The Supreme Court's lack of action could embolden software companies to ban reverse engineering or take away other fair-use rights already allowed by including such prohibitions in a license ...

For example, if we are looking for a space claim model or if we need to run finite element analysis (FEA), we'll utilize the format as received from the reverse engineering software.