This article offers an overview of malware defensive tricks and techniques used when disassembly and debugging tools are searching for malware, especially within a virtual machine. Anti-disassembly techniques Malware authors use anti-disassembly techniques to delay, prevent and/or avoid the reverse-engineering of their code. It uses manually crafted code to cause disassembly analysis tools to produce an incorrect program listing. Here are some common anti-disassembly techniques. API obfuscation API obfuscation changes the names of identifies (class names, method names, field names) to random names so that the reader of the code doesn’t know what the code is doing....

Apex Legends is the new battle royale game that everyone’s been talking about. It didn’t take long for people to realize that this free to play multiplayer shooter was a seriously awesome experience, and more people are checking it out with each passing day. It might be too early yet, but many people think that this game has the potential to become the next Fortnite, and rob this game of its crown in the Battle Royale genre....

Apex Legends characters have their own sets of abilities and features and Gibraltar is one of them. The character can be unlocked after you reach level 5. Gibraltar is a defensive player and can easily tackle defensive and offensive stages. Today we will share the Apex Legends mobile Gibraltar guide in full detail with Gibraltar abilities, perks and tips. Gibraltar is one of the characters in-game with the highest win rates, making him a very powerful character....

Apple gets caught up in all kinds of controversy, from antitrust issues to advertising, but one of the stranger ones concerns the company’s involvement with The App Association. A piece this morning claims that the company exerts significant influence over a body designed to represent developers, when their interests may be at odds with those of the App Store owner … The App Association The App Association describes itself as “the leading industry voice on the app economy....

[slideshow] Earlier this month, we told you Apple awarded a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card to Chunli Fu of Qingdao, China for downloading the 25 billionth app from the App Store. As part of her prize, Apple flew Fu to Apple headquarters in Beijing for a visit to the corporate offices and then the Sanlitun retail store to collect her prize at a press event and award ceremony. Several local reports from qdqss....

Apple just started sending out the above explanation for the Developer Center outage that has been going on since Thursday. According to the note, Apple’s security was breached and an intruder might have gotten some personal information (specifically names, mailing addresses, email addresses, etc.). In the spirit of (just a bit late) transparency, Apple is now informing developers who may have been affected. Also, because of the intrusion, Apple has decided to totally overhaul its developer systems, including updating server software and rebuilding databases seemingly from scratch....

Apple has today been granted a patent for an iPad Smart Cover with more smarts than usual: it incorporates a built-in display, and even a Wacom-style drawing tablet. The patent illustrates a number of different ways the Smart Cover display could be used, from simply extending the iPad’s own display through text-only displays of things like reminders to a combined display and touchpad. Some of the options show the display acting as a full input device too, allowing both handwritten notes and drawings....

Ahead of the Apple event, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says Apple is cutting the new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro shipment forecast as it plans to start mass production of this product on 4Q22. Here’s what the analyst claims. Apple shipment forecasts of new models have been cut by 20-30% before mass production. The analyst says “the MacBook Pro order cut is a structural risk for the ABF substrate and miniLED sectors....

Apple has officially added vehicles to the corporate documents describing the company’s activities, at least in Switzerland. The company’s lawyers added the following paragraph, reports Swiss site ApfelBlog. It’s common to add catch-all terminology to company activities, so nothing should be read into the inclusion of ships and aircraft, though we’re sure there will be a breathless headline somewhere soon about an Apple plane … Vehicles; Apparatus for locomotion by land, air or water; electronic hardware components for motor vehicles, rail cars and locomotives, ships and aircraft; Anti-theft devices; Theft alarms for vehicles; Bicycles; Golf carts; Wheelchairs; Air pumps; Motorcycles; Aftermarket parts (after-market parts) and accessories for the aforesaid goods....

Apple has lost yet another member of the Project Titan team working on its ambitious plans for a fully self-driving electric car. According to a new report from Bloomberg, Christopher (CJ) Moore has departed Apple after less than a year on the job. Prior to his short stint at Apple, Moore served as a director of Tesla’s Autopilot team. Apple Car departures continue Moore is leaving Apple’s self-driving car team to join Luminar, a startup that says it is “building the future of transportation....

The New York International Auto Show is about to kick off this weekend and that means the latest vehicle announcements for CarPlay, Apple’s platform for in-dash entertainment systems that allows app functionality using a connected iPhone. Acura is showing off the first example of CarPlay that uses a dual-display setup with the latest generation of its On Demand Multi-Use Display. And Hyundai, Jeep, Honda, Lincoln and others are introducing new vehicles with support....

The Silicon Valley competition never fades away. While Apple itself just recently hired Meta’s lead of PR for Oculus ahead of its rumored launch of an AR headset next year, the company is trying to not lose its talent by issuing significant stock bonuses to some engineers. As reported by Bloomberg, Apple has issued “unusual and significant stock bonuses.” In the story, Mark Gurman says that these bonuses “have ranged from about $50,000 to as much as $180,000 in some cases....

Apple’s head of global security, Thomas Moyer, is among four people in San Jose, California, being indicted as part of a concealed weapons permit scandal. The scandal involved $70,000 worth of iPads in exchange for concealed firearms licenses, and Moyer is being charged with bribery. Through the scheme, Santa Clara County undersheriff Rick Sung and sheriff’s Captain James Jensen withheld four gun permits for Apple employees until Moyer agreed to donate 200 iPads, worth $70,000, to the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s office....

Apple is continuing to expand its Worldwide Video Programming division, the team responsible for original content efforts. According to a new report from Deadline, Apple has hired Carol Trussell, who will serve as Head of Production… Trussell has served as head of production at Gaumont Television since 2013, where she oversaw “all aspects of physical production” for shows such as Narcos, Hannibal, and F is for Family. Prior to officially joining Gaumont, she served as a producer for several other shows and worked at Paramount and Lorimar Television:...

First go to Settings » General » Accessibility and switch on Custom Vibrations. Then go back to the main Settings screen, and go to Sounds » Vibration. This is where you choose vibrations including Alert, Heartbeat, Rapid, SOS or Symphony. If you’re a creative type, you can also create your own unique pattern. Just tap out the pattern you want in the box on the screen. Tapping and holding will result in a longer, continuous vibration....

Apple is sending out emails to developers today informing them of changes coming to bug reporting. The company says the changes come as part of its “commitment to privacy” and will start rolling out later this fall. In the email, first shared by developer Daniel Farrelly, Apple explains that it will be removing all developer data from inactive bugs. Inactive bugs consist of bugs that have been closed for at least five years, have not been updated for 60 days, and are not a duplicates of another bug....

During its “It’s Show Time” event at the Steve Jobs Theater today, Apple announced that the latest versions of its operating systems will be released later today. The updates will include support for the new services announced during the event, including News+, with the magazines and exclusive content offerings. Update: iOS 12.2 is now available for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Other new features on iOS 12.2 include new Animoji characters: the shark, owl, giraffe, and warthog options — plus a few more changes....

Update: Unicode has actually responded to Apple’s request and detailed all of the changes that will come with Emoji 4.0, including 16 new professional emoji. Following the emoji redesign with iOS 10, Apple has recently asked the Unicode Consortium to add 5 new emoji to the existing catalog of options. Apple’s Peter Edberg, who has been a software engineer at the company for 28 years, reached out to the Unicode Technical Committee recently, sharing mockups of the five new emoji....

Apple CEO Tim Cook has been ordered by U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose to give a deposition related to an ongoing private lawsuit that claims Apple, Google, and others entered “no-poach” agreements, as reported by Bloomberg. Cook isn’t the only executive named in yesterday’s order. Google Chairman Eric Schmidt will also be deposed on Feb. 20, as well as Intel Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini later this month....

Fonix Speech today introduced its Fonix VoiceIn 5.0 tool-kit for the iPhone 3G. This includes a license and run time engine fee to video game developers. “We expect to leverage our prior successes with video game developers that incorporate Fonix VoiceIn Game tool-kit for an increasingly growing mobile video game market,” says Steven G. Jones, Fonix Director of sales and business development. “A hands free game like Tom Clancy’s ‘EndWar,’ developed by Ubisoft, features Fonix VoiceIn for Games and is a natural fit for the iPhone 3G....