x86 Software Reverse-Engineering, Cracking, and Counter-Measures

About the Authors

With more than 10 years of ethical hacking, reverse engineering, and advanced vulnerability analysis as a defense contractor, Stephanie Domas has a deep knowledge of and passion for the hacker mindset. Pivoting her offensive skills to the defense, she built and led two cybersecurity businesses focused on defense of embedded systems, medical devices, and the healthcare industry. She currently serves as a prominent industry consultant and advisor with a broad range of tech companies and device manufacturers, from the newest startups to the industry giants, and is the CISO of Canonical, driving Canonical to be the most trusted computational partner in all of open source. Previously, she served as the chief security technology strategist at Intel where she owned the cross-Intel security technology strategy, formulating and implementing strategies that would accelerate Intel's strength, competitiveness, and revenue growth in the area of security. Stephanie is a passionate educator, strategist, speaker, advisor, and security enthusiast.

Christopher Domas is a security researcher primarily focused on firmware, hardware, and low-level processor exploitation. He is best known for releasing impractical solutions to nonexistent problems, including the world's first single instruction C compiler (M/o/Vfuscator), toolchains for generating images in program control flow graphs (REpsych), and Turing machines in the vi text editor. His more relevant work includes the sandsifter ...