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⚪️ Trespassers W. Protecting iOS apps from reverse engineering and modifications
🗨️ If you've ever published an app in the App Store and discovered its cracked version a few weeks later on some suspicious resource, this article is right for you — it discusses real-life techniques for protecting iOS apps against reverse engineering, hacking, and modifications. You and I will exam…
⚪️ Assembly Deep Dive: Practical Techniques to Shrink Your Program Size
🗨️ In this article you’ll learn a few tricks that can help you shrink the size of your assembly programs. Along the way, you’ll also get a taste of the spirit of MIT’s Tech Model Railroad Club, where techniques like these were once valued especially highly.
⚪️ Cisco Patches Zero‑Day Vulnerability in SD‑WAN
🗨️ Cisco specialists have released patches for vulnerability CVE-2026-20262 in Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (formerly SD-WAN vManage). According to the company, the issue has already been exploited in real-world attacks and allowed attackers to escalate privileges to the root level. Since the…
⚪️ NGINX Patches Two Critical RCE Vulnerabilities
🗨️ F5 developers have released out-of-band patches for two critical issues in NGINX that, under certain conditions, allowed remote execution of arbitrary code. The vulnerabilities have been assigned identifiers CVE-2026-42530 and CVE-2026-42055, and each received a CVSS score of 9.2. They…
⚪️ Inside the Apple Hack: Detailed Breakdown of the Large-Scale Breach and the Attacker Techniques Used
🗨️ A recent large‑scale “white hat” attack against Apple’s infrastructure is one of the most interesting infosec events in recent memory. In this piece, we’ll walk through several brilliantly executed operations: compromising the DELMIA Apriso service, breaching the authors.apple.com server, obtaini…
⚪️ Exact vs Fuzzy Hashing: How Security Tools Detect and Classify Malware
🗨️ Malware authors use a wide range of techniques to hide their creations from antivirus tools and both static and dynamic analyzers. In response, antivirus vendors develop advanced hashing algorithms to detect related samples of malicious code. In this article, we’ll explain how these algorithms wo…
⚪️ Digitizing Reality: How Different 3D Scanning Techniques Capture Real-World Objects
🗨️ If you’re planning to build a 3D game or app, or experiment with AR or VR, you’ve probably already thought about 3D scanning. Let’s look at the different ways this technology is implemented and what kind of hardware you’ll need.
⚪️ Unusual Linux Networking Tricks: Exploring Lesser‑Known Layer 2 Features
🗨️ The Linux kernel is the foundation of most software routers and firewalls, and for good reason — it offers a huge number of network-layer features. That said, some of Linux’s more useful and unusual capabilities for working at the data link and physical layers often stay behind the scenes. Let’s …
⚪️ Hacking Fundamentals: How to Recognize Constructors and Destructors in Compiled Code
🗨️ This article covers class object lifecycle functions that every developer knows—constructors and destructors—and explains how to locate them in the code of a program you’re analyzing.
⚪️ Android malware Rokarolla targets 217 banking and cryptocurrency apps
🗨️ Researchers at Zimperium have discovered a new Android banking trojan called Rokarolla. The malware is distributed via websites that masquerade as download pages for popular apps such as Chrome and TikTok. Once a device is infected, the malicious software gains…
