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 […]
Deviare 101 Part 1 Welcome to the first installment of Deviare 101. In this article, we’ll explain how to use Deviare’s Reg-Free COM capability to easily deploy applications on end-user machines. This guide uses Visual Studio 2013 but can also be followed on earlier versions. The Manifest File Reg-Free COM requires an XML file called […]
If you look at the last Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for APM and compare it with what is really happening in the market you will notice two things: With the exception of Compuware, the leaders, New Relic and AppDynamics, are all newcomers. All the old established companies are excluded from the leader’s quadrant. Gartner separates APM […]
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 […]
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 […]
Today Manuel Fernandez is presenting HookME at Black Hat USA Arsenal 2013. HookME is software designed for intercepting communications which uses the Nektra Deviare Engine for binary instrumentation. HookME can intercept unencrypted HTTPS web traffic. Many different proxy servers are used to intercept HTTP traffic. Fiddler is the most popular one for generic purposes. Burp Proxy is the leader for security testing. […]
What is your computer’s maximum render quality, resolution, and frames per second for Battlefield 3? Hard core gamers are eager to show off their expensive, tuned setup at its full potential. Overclocked processors and computers cooled with liquid hydrogen are lovely parts of the gaming folklore. The source code below instruments Direct3D 9 applications to […]
Using Deviare to Cheat on Games This simple Deviare code allows you to to see through game walls. We intercept Direct3D objects and select wireframe mode so the walls are transparent. This code injects a DLL to create an object based on the IDirect3D9 interface and hook the address of the CreateDevice COM method from […]
Note: we updated the code on August 23, 2013. The new code includes an “abort” feature, discussed in the article Instrumenting Microsoft SQL Server to Abort Dangerous Queries. Our Deviare hooking engine can be used to hook into Microsoft SQL Server 2012 RTM (11.00.2100.60) and 2014 CTP1 queries at the application level. Tools like WireShark use a […]