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Nektra
Company blog · blog.nektra.com · on HN as wslhprogrammingsecurity
Nektra is the company blog at blog.nektra.com, writing about programming and security. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 63 times, most often “Reverse Engineering and The Cloud”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post as the direct source for the announcement that SpyStudio, a Windows tool for tracing system calls, is now free. The comment only gives the link, with no comment on the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Reverse Engineering and The Cloud2 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2012-06-01
- Reflecting on 16 Years of Work on Adversarial Interoperability (2020)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-24
- SpyStudio Is Now Free: Create and Troubleshoot Application Virtualization Packages2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-20
What Hacker News says?
Google Reader is irreplaceable, it is not only about reading RSS. That is the easy part. It is about going back in time and accessing all past feeds in an organized way (it is difficult to rebuilt that from crawling and web scraping). If you add a blog now you can read articles that are not present in the current feed. Google Reader is the core of my information diet. Not twitter. Thousands of blogs starred, liked,…
Comment linking /main/2012/06/01/reverse-engineering-and-the-cloud/
on “Google Reader shutting down”Submitted Deviare Hooking Engine Is Open Source and Deviare In-Proc Supports .NET Hooking as a story · 9 points
HN discussionThey didn't do their homework in this case. Companies like Ranorex (and also my company) accesses Windows Metro controls. For the first step, you can read "Injecting a DLL in a Modern UI Metro Application" [1] [1] http://blog.nektra.com/main/2013/02/25/injecting-a-dll-in-mo...
Comment linking /main/2013/02/25/injecting-a-dll-in-modernui-metro-app-win8/
on “Gamma FinFisher hacked: 40 GB of internal documents and source code published”Submitted Injecting a DLL in a Modern UI Metro application as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThe managed file transfer sector is hot and there is no winner yet. Even a YC company called WireOver [1] is working in this space. A little bit precient, my company developed a free Outlook add-on to send dropbox files as attachments [2] in 2012. - [1] http://www.wireover.com/ - [2] http://blog.nektra.com/main/2012/05/23/integrating-dropbox-w...
Comment linking /main/2012/05/23/integrating-dropbox-with-microsoft-outlook/
on “Dropbox is in your Office”Submitted Reflecting on 16 Years of Work on Adversarial Interoperability (2020) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionBefore answering your question my extended rant is here: http://blog.nektra.com/main/2012/06/01/reverse-engineering-a... Samba and Wine were both created using reverse engineering. Microsoft frequently made changes that broke both products. Don't get me started on Microsoft's PPTP and Kerberos. - Nvidia produced their own closed drivers on Linux. How does that involve Microsoft? You agree with me then! that was my p…
Comment linking /main/2012/06/01/reverse-engineering-and-the-cloud/
on “The limits of Google’s openness”Submitted Benchmarking Windows Packet-Capture Methods as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI've not seen these ones on any list here: http://blog.databigbang.com http://blog.nektra.com http://www.yosefk.com/blog http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/ http://blogs.southworks.net http://awelonblue.wordpress.com/
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on “Ask HN: What unknown technical blogs or sites do you read?”Submitted SpyStudio Is Now Free: Create and Troubleshoot Application Virtualization Packages as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou can also take a look at one article from my company: "64-bit Microsoft Office Applications Do Not Like Stack Walking" [1] [1] http://blog.nektra.com/main/2014/04/23/64-bit-microsoft-offi...
Comment linking /main/2014/04/23/64-bit-microsoft-office-applications-do-not-like-stack-walking/
on “Reverse Engineering for Beginners: Free book”Submitted Reverse engineering C++ and COM virtual tables with IDA Pro + Deviare as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWe were also very tired arguing (on bugzilla) about Thunderbird issues that finally we wrote one of our most popular blog articles: Export messages and folders from Thunderbird to Outlook, Outlook Express and Windows Live Mail: http://blog.nektra.com/main/2009/04/14/export-messages-and-f...
Comment linking /main/2009/04/14/export-messages-and-folders-from-thunderbird-to-outlook-outlook-express/
on “Dear Mozilla: Fix Your Damn Browser”Submitted Reflecting on 16 Years of Work on Adversarial Interoperability as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYes, my company precisely does work in running IE6 in newer operating systems such as Windows 7. A case study of why and how we helped Symantec in this area is here http://blog.nektra.com/main/2014/02/12/nektra-escalation-sup...
Comment linking /main/2014/02/12/nektra-escalation-support-for-symantec-workspace-virtualization-swv/
on “IE6 is dead”Submitted WinPcap vs. NDIS 6.0 vs. WFP vs. Native as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOn 2008 we published an article about this using our own hooking tool: http://blog.nektra.com/main/2008/10/15/the-truth-about-googl... don't know what's the state of this stuff on 2011. This is hooking the application so you don't have issues with sniffing SSL.
Comment linking /main/2008/10/15/the-truth-about-google-chrome-using-spy-studio/
on “Chrome Privacy”Submitted Open-sourcing RemoteBridge: inspect and control Java and COM objects remotely as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOur article about exporting e-mails from Thunderbird to Outlook has been one of the most successful blog posts since 2009: http://blog.nektra.com/main/2009/04/14/export-messages-and-f... What triggered the article was the unresponsiveness from the Thunderbird team about ugly bugs we reported and they removed!
Comment linking /main/2009/04/14/export-messages-and-folders-from-thunderbird-to-outlook-outlook-express/
on “So, That’s It For Thunderbird”Submitted 64-bit Microsoft Office Applications Do Not Like Stack Walking as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt reminds me of an article I wrote with code in 2012 about modifying the speed of YouTube in Windows using instrumentation [1]. When YouTube used Adobe Flash. [1] https://blog.nektra.com/2012/06/13/controlling-the-speed-of-...
Comment linking /2012/06/13/controlling-the-speed-of-youtube-flash-html5-and-desktop-videos-with-deviare-hooks/
on “YouTube is now blocking Ad Blockers – So I just make ads run 16x faster”Submitted "Simple" Microsoft SQL Server binary interception as a story · 2 points
HN discussionShameless plug: my company develops Deviare[1]: "code interception for dummies". It allows to intercept a Windows application from any COM capable programming language. We have interesting code samples such as capturing video intercepting DirectX[2] and hooking into SQL Server to abort unsecure (e.g. injection attacks) queries[3]. 1. http://www.nektra.com/products/deviare-api-hook-windows/devi... 2. http://blog.nekt…
Comment linking /main/2013/06/26/sql-server-interception-and-sql-injection-attacks-prevention/
on “Pyringe: Debugger capable of attaching to and injecting into Python processes”Submitted Capturing unencrypted HTTPS requests and responses (as seen on BlackHat Arsenal) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> If your only response to this is "go cry to various small tech publications", then you're doing it wrong. I don't think so. The main issue is that people think that there are APIs because companies promote their interoperability to gain developers. Companies are not being sincere and nobody is taking notice. To not repeat this and other opinions I post one of my recent posts on the subject: "Reverse Engineering an…
Comment linking /main/2012/06/01/reverse-engineering-and-the-cloud/
on “How LinkedIn betrayed a 5-man startup”Submitted Intercepting Direct3D COM objects and making game walls invisible as a story · 2 points
HN discussionbut what else could the IRS have done without approval from congress? Patching the security issues themselves? I know this can be complex in many cases but the security and reverse engineering community have this knowledge, probably not fixing the whole issue but at least blocking it. I've wrote an article about doing this here: http://blog.nektra.com/main/2013/08/07/using-deviare-to-crea... last year.
Comment linking /main/2013/08/07/using-deviare-to-create-a-temporary-zero-day-patch/
on “IRS misses XP deadline, pays Microsoft millions for patches”Submitted Hooking Windows SQL Server as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMy two cents: if you need to instrument native Windows applications, including Win32 and COM, my company develops three mature GPLv3 libs: 1/ Deviare In-Proc (like Microsoft Detours): https://github.com/nektra/Deviare-InProc 2/ Deviare Hooking Engine (even novices can instrument apps): https://github.com/nektra/Deviare2 3/ RemoteBridge (access internal COM and Java apps) https://github.com/nektra/RemoteBridge All th…
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on “Logging vs. instrumentation”Submitted Registration-Free COM in Deviare Plugins as a story · 2 points
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