NSA, the national security agency of United States, department of defense has recently announced to open source a powerful reverse engineering tool named Ghidra which the agency has been using for a long time, for the Cyber Security Community and they have called it a contribution to the nation's cyber security community.
In March 2019 at RSA Conference the NSA (National Security Agency) stated that in near future they are planning to open source this powerful tool. This software is written in Java Programming Language using the Swing Framework for the GUI. This powerful reverse engineering tool was developed by the National Security Agency (NSA) itself.
The actual announcement was made by Rob Joyce who is the cyber security adviser of NSA. He ensured the audience that there are no backdoors in Ghidra. He also added that the tool was developed in such a way to take a deep look into malware and software to spot the weaknesses and to exploit them.
In March 2019 at RSA Conference the NSA (National Security Agency) stated that in near future they are planning to open source this powerful tool. This software is written in Java Programming Language using the Swing Framework for the GUI. This powerful reverse engineering tool was developed by the National Security Agency (NSA) itself.
The actual announcement was made by Rob Joyce who is the cyber security adviser of NSA. He ensured the audience that there are no backdoors in Ghidra. He also added that the tool was developed in such a way to take a deep look into malware and software to spot the weaknesses and to exploit them.
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What is a Reverse Engineering Tool?
The term Reverse Engineering means taking apart anything to understand it's working principle in order to create a duplicate product or in order to create something more advance. In the field of cyber security or Computer a reverse engineering tool means an application software that is capable of going deep into another software to retrieve the source code of that software to study that program and it's working principle. For an example if an unknown malware program needs to be understood the experts should first go deep into its source code to understand it, to do that they use different types of Reverse Engineering Tools or Software.
Below we will provide you some important details about Ghidra:
1. Original Developer: NSA
2. Initial Release Date: 5th March 2019
3. Written in: Java using the Swing Framework for the GUI
4. License: Apache License 2.0
5. Website: https://ghidra-sre.org (download link)
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