Is Google Spying on You? How to Quickly Craft an Ad Hoc Security Sandbox

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. […]

Windows API Hooking in Python with Deviare

The code below uses Python to intercept the CreateFile function on the kernel32.dll to forbid opening certain files. It hooks the CreateFile function for the notepad.exe application. The Python code is very small and to the point, and you can customize it for your own purposes. For example, it can be used to sandbox an […]

DirectSound Capture Using Deviare

Download Deviare Download Sourcecode Download PDF Contents Introduction Research Direct Sound Capturing Monitoring Skype Conversations Implementation Deviare Python Wrappers Wave Tools COM Type Libraries Virtual Table Finder Hooking Direct Sound Running Sound Capture Easy Steps Registration What’s next Optimizations Wave API Hooking Hook DirectSoundCapture And Listen To Full Conversations Inspect More COM Interfaces Introduction Today […]

The truth about Google Chrome using SpyStudio

Everyone has a lot of questions about Chrome.  Some people say that it is spyware because each and every character you enter is sent to Google.  Hundreds of comments like this can be found on the web, like this one that says “Chrome spends nearly as much time phoning home to Google as it does […]

GoogleToolbar PageRank requests

Using our API hooker SpyStudio I wrote a script to intercept http requests done using wininet.dll API coming from a specific module of a process. The script keeps request information (server and url) to display in next calls and let filter requests to a specific server. Its name is httpReport.py and can found in SpyStudio […]

SpyStudio 1.0.0b released!

Introduction to SpyStudio: SpyStudio is a powerful application that simplifies the code execution interception operations, also called “hooking”. Users can now easily monitor and gain control over processes in their systems, to really know what is happening in the Operating System and it’s applications. With SpyStudio you can monitor and intercept API calls at any time, change […]

Deviare hook component released

We have released the first version of Deviare. A free trial is available for download.Deviare is a component for ‘easy hooking’ of Windows DLLs. Now you don’t need to be an expert to incercept operating system functions because you use a COM object abstracting many of the complexities.To show the power look at the following […]