We have the beta version of the ARM decompiler almost ready! Below is a short demo of how it works now: Your browser does not support the video element. Kindly update it to latest version. If you are interested in participating in the beta testing and you have an […]
Read MoreThe other day we received an email support question asking if IDA Pro / Windbg debugger plugin works with VirtualKd, a tool that allows speeding up (up to 45x) Windows kernel module debugging using VMWare and VirtualBox virtual machines. After we installed and experimented with VirtualKd, our answer was “yes, certainly”. […]
Read MoreHave you ever tried to teach x86 assembly language programming to someone coming from high level language programming background and discovered that it was hard? Before being able to write a simple “Hello World” program one needs to know a fair deal about the x86 architecture, the assembler language and the operating system. Obviously this is […]
Read MoreIn IDA Pro 5.6 we added support for loader scripts, last month we added processor module scripts support, and now by adding support for scriptable plugins (for the next version of IDA) it will be possible to write all sort of IDA Pro extensions using scripting languages. (A plugin script written using IDC)
Read MoreCustom viewers can be used to display arbitrary textual information and can be used in any IDA plugin.They are used in IDA-View, Hex-View, Enum and struct views and the Hex-Rays decompiler. In this blog entry we are going to write an ASM file viewer in order to demonstrate how to create a custom viewer and […]
Read MorePreview of the new cross-platform IDA Pro GUI
Read MoreAnother new feature that will be available in the upcoming version of IDA Pro is the ability to create and render custom data types and formats. (Embedded instructions disassembled and rendered along side with x86 code)
Read MoreOne of the new features we are preparing for the next version of IDA is the ability to write processor modules using your favorite scripting language. After realizing how handy it is to write file loaders using scripting languages, we set out to making the same thing for processor modules. As an exercise for this […]
Read MoreScripting with IDA Pro has always been a very handy feature, not only when used in scripts but also in expressions, breakpoint conditions, form fields, etc… In IDA Pro 5.6 we improved the IDC language and made it more convenient to use by adding objects, exceptions, support for strings with embedded zeroes, string slicing and references.
Read MoreAs everyone knows, Google and some other companies were under a targeted attack a few days ago. A vulnerability in the Internet Explorer was used to penetrate the computers. An IDA user very kindly sent us the following link http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2010/01/18/an-insight-into-the-aurora-communication-protocol/
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