I am the founder and CEO of Apriorit, a software development company that provides engineering services globally to tech companies. Nowadays, cyber attackers are armed with an impressive range of ...

Disclosure: the author of this article is involved with the Ethereum project. There have been a number of very interesting developments in cryptography in the past few years. Satoshi’s blockchain ...

Google announced today five new rules for the Chrome Web Store, the portal where users go to download Chrome extensions. The new rules are primarily meant to prevent malicious extensions from reaching ...

Mozilla will start blocking Firefox add-ons that contain obfuscated code as part of the updated Add-on Policy that aims to rid the portal of third-party malicious code. Come June 10, Mozilla will ...

Code obfuscation is a set of program transformations that make program code and program execution difficult to analyze. First of all, obfuscation hinders manual inspection of program internals. By ...

The ban will enter into effect on June 10, at which point Mozilla plans to remove all Firefox extensions that don't meet this criteria and shoot down any future extension submissions that fail to ...

To obfuscate an HTML code page means to encrypt or hide strings of characters which are likely email addresses and other source code within the code page. When HTML is obfuscated, spam robots are not ...

One of the most exciting challenges available to any software developer is that of writing brilliantly working code that’s so obtuse, so indecipherable, and opaque, that even its own author would ...

Noll did not define specifically what makes for winning obfuscated code. “It’s like porn. You know it when you see it,” he said. Many of the best entries have had multiple layers of obfuscation, where ...