In June, 2015 there was an alarming bit of news when people over at the Debian project realized that Chromium silently downloaded a closed source NaCl binary extension. It was the hotword extension which implements speech recognition techniques. When someone says “OK Google” within range of the microphone, Chrome interprets what follows as a command. […]
Our Data Loss Prevention Development team used Deviare to add watermarks to printed documents by intercepting XPS Print API interfaces. This technique can be applied to all printing jobs on virtual or physical printing devices. Get the code. The requirements are: An operating system with XPS Print API (Windows Vista SP2 with Platform Update or higher) Visual […]
RemoteBridge is now open source and available on GitHub as are Deviare Hooking Engine and Deviare-InProc. RemoteBridge allows you to access the COM and Java objects instanced in a process as if they were your own object instances. You can access their methods, properties and events from your own application. It is implemented as a COM […]
SpyStudio is now free and available for download here. It is a Swiss Army knife for cyber security analysts, DevOps, QA engineers, and developers. You can take a look at the articles “Nektra and VMware are Collaborating to Simplify Application Virtualization Packaging” and “How Nektra Improved Desktop Virtualization for Symantec Corporation” to see how big […]
We have good news for those interested in Windows Hooking. Deviare Hooking Engine is now open source and available on GitHub. The license is GPL but a commercial license and support are also available for users who want to distribute closed-source products based on Deviare. Our other open source hooking product, Deviare In-Proc, now supports […]
Our Office plugin development team was researching some problems with Office and they found this problem. Our SpyStudio tool intercepts application system calls and retrieves the called functions by inspecting the call-stack. We were unable to access stack information in the last few 64-bit releases of Microsoft Office products. When we use SpyStudio to intercept an Office […]
Introduction Large companies are continually faced with new technologies and shorter technology cycles which render their trusted applications obsolete. Migrating an application from one technology to another is expensive and the timeframe required to carry it out is prohibitive for most companies. In 2010, Nektra developed software which allows old technologies such as Internet Explorer […]
Nektra’s SpyStudio provides tools allowing for application harvesting and simplified packaging for the VMware ThinApp offering Nektra’s Application Packaging Services and VMware, Inc. have been collaborating to significantly improve the process of creating and troubleshooting VMware ThinApp application virtualization packages with the SpyStudio application. The video below shows the SpyStudio new ability to harvest applications directly […]
A customer asked to develop a solution to prevent data leaks of their databases. Hernan has added a new feature to the code offered in our article SQL Server Interception and SQL Injection Attack Prevention. Now it is possible to cancel queries as well as watch them. The code sample uses the Deviare Interception Engine’s […]
Zero day vulnerabilities put organizations at the mercy of vendors. These vulnerabilities are like a ticking bomb: you do not know when someone will exploit them. Writing your own patch for closed source applications is, in most cases, a complex mission that can take even longer than the vendor solution. When you use legacy software […]