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 ...

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 ...

"Obfuscated code is source or machine code that has been made difficult to understand. Programmers may deliberately obfuscate code to conceal its purpose or its logic to prevent tampering, deter ...

Over 25% of malicious JavaScript code is obfuscated by so-called 'packers', a software packaging method that has given attackers a way of evading signature-based detection, according to security and ...

Reverse engineering and tampering attacks threaten every mobile app, yet many apps apply basic code hardening techniques (or none at all!) to defend against these attempts. In fact, research has shown ...

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Attackers are increasingly changing up the techniques used to obfuscate what their software is doing, with one group hiding parts of their code using a variety of techniques swapped out every 37 days ...

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 ...

The International Obfuscated C Contest – the contest to create the most useful, useless, or unique program in absolutely unreadable C code – has just posted the winners of the 2013 contest. Of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If clarity shines a light on something, obfuscating it is casting a shadow over it. The word “obfuscate” is cloaked in darkness, ...