Reverse engineering has been used by the military, big companies and many more. It is the act of taking something (computer, device, weapon, software) and “stripping” it to learn or analyze its inner working in detail. Compaq, one of IBM’s major competitors, did this in the early 1980s, using the reverse engineering process to dissect the IBM PC and build their own product. In this blog post, we list 7 tools for reverse engineering on the Microsoft Windows platform that have influenced the reversing community the most.

While implementing a new JavaScript engine into Detectify, we discovered that the XSS auditors in modern browsers wasn’t as good at catching special cases as we thought. Considering that we had such a good response to our previous post on bypassing the Chrome XSS Auditor, we thought this would make a fitting post. But nevermind the details, let’s get to it!