Application Security and Vulnerability Analysis

General Purpose References

• Assembly Community
• TippingPoint DVLabs Blog
• Security Research Presentations by Alex Sotirov
• Compiler Optimizations for Reverse Engineers by Rolf Rolles
• OpenRCE
• Crackmes.de
• The ReverseEngineering reddit
• The Binary Auditor, Dr. Thorsten Schneider

Walkthroughs

• Tuts 4 You: Lena's Reversing for Newbies
• Mac OS X Reversing Tutorial for Newbies, by Fractal Guru
• From Patch to Proof-of-Concept: MS10-081

The University of Helsinki and F-Secure 'Malware Analysis and Antivirus Technologies' open course

• Introduction to Reverse Engineering
• Reverse Engineering Basics
• The PE File Format
• Using Debuggers to Analyze Malware
• Emulators and Disassemblers
• Unpacking and Decrypting Malware