Soon we are going to start testing the next IDA version. There will be many improvements. Some of them we have mentioned previously: Proximity view PE+ support for Bochs (64-bit PE files) UI shortcut editor Read More
Two of the new UI highlights in the upcoming IDA release are filtering capability for choosers and shortcut management. I’ll be discussing them in this post, although seeing them live in action is much nicer. 😉 Filters Filters make it possible to either show, hide or highlight one or more categories of items. But enough talk, let’s […]
Read MoreThe new IDA Pro 6.2 release will be featuring a new view called the “proximity browser” (only available in the Qt version). The proximity view
Read MoreA few weeks ago we received an electronic copy of the “IDA Pro Book, 2nd Edition”. In the second edition of his 26 chapters book, Chris Eagle did a good job updating the book and covering the latest changes in IDA Pro 6.1: the IDA Qt graphical interface is illustrated in […]
Read MoreLast month I visited the Recon conference and had a great time again. I gave a talk on C++ decompilation and how to handle it in IDA and Hex-Rays decompiler. You can get the slides here, and download the recorded talk here. Edit: for some reason the streaming version does […]
Read MoreIn IDA Pro 6.1 we extended the Bochs debugger plugin to support debugging of 64bit code snippets. With IDA Pro 6.2 it will be possible to debug PE+ executables as well. Since the execution will be emulated inside Bochs, a 64bit operating system is not required and one could be equally running a 32 or […]
Read MoreIn a previous blog post we mentioned that it is possible to use IDA Pro with PySide (Python + Qt) after applying some minor code patches to PySide. For convenience purposes, we precompiled the PySide libraries that work with IDA Pro 6.0+ and Python 2.6/2.7. Below is a brief explanation on […]
Read MoreIn this blog post, we are going to illustrate how to use some of the new UI features introduced in IDA Pro 6.1 (embedded choosers, custom icons, etc…) by writing a VirusTotal reporting and file submission plugin for IDA Pro. The plugin will […]
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