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.

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

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 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 ...

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

Knight said her reverse engineering efforts on 30 sample apps revealed 83 percent of the apps tested insecurely stored data outside of the apps control.

Researchers with a DARPA-led team are looking into new ways to combat reverse engineering by using obfuscation to tidy up shoddy commercial and government security.

3D scanners and reverse-engineering software make short work of redesigning enclosures and internal parts for complex products.

Although Project Ire is a prototype, Microsoft says the 'AI agent' can (in some cases) reverse engineer any type of software on its own to determine if it's malicious.

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.