PreEmptive is doing its part to help the Vancouver Winter Olympics go off smoothly.

February 19, 2010 3470 Views Gabriel Torok

Online viewers of the Vancouver Olympics on NBCOlympics.com are using Silverlight based video and photo viewers delivering full HD quality content for viewers and helping content owners monetize their content. I am pleased to say that Dotfuscator had a hand in all of this innovation providing both protection and optimization for the high performing video player at the heart the NBC online Olympic experience.

For an overall description of the Silverlight solution, see: http://team.silverlight.net/events/let-the-games-begin/

For Microsoft’s own description of the role of partners (including us of course), see: http://team.silverlight.net/customer-evidence/vancouver-olympics-ndash-how-rsquo-d-we-do-that/

The development teams especially appreciated the fact that Dotfuscator can accept and output XAP files (instead of low level DLLs that force developers to manually edit XAP files). This shortens and simplifies the release process – and was critical for an event like the Olympics.

On an unrelated Silverlight note, I was pleased to see David Kelly’s recent blog entry . This Silverlight MVP has identified Dotfuscator’s Silverlight analytics as “a critical tool in your tool Silverlight toolbox.” Good Stuff.

Data Breaches in 2019: Why the Hackers are Winning (And What You Can do About It)

Hackers are winning. As noted by Information Age, data breach reports are up 75 percent over the last two years — while part of this increase is tied to emerging legislation and disclosure requirements, a quick look at tech headlines makes it clear that attackers are coming out ahead in the fight to keep corporate networks, applications and data secure.

But it’s not all bad news. Armed with knowledge of the current breach landscape — along with actionable insight to protect critical assets — organizations can start to even the score and put hackers on the defensive. Here’s what you need to know.

DashO 9.2 is available for immediate download and includes two powerful new controls:

1) Emulator Check, a new injectable control that

Detects when a hardened app is being executed on an emulator (even if that emulator is not rooted), and
Responds with the one or more pre-defined defenses and/or app-specific defenses – all in real-time.

Butter Knife is an annotation processing library that helps streamline boilerplate Java code in Android views. At compile time, Butter Knife annotations are processed to generate the relevant UI code to make views function properly.

When obfuscating applications that use Butter Knife, there are specific configuration patterns you should follow. The code that connects generated classes to their views uses runtime reflection under the hood. Because of this, the original name of the View is required.

When configuring DashO we need to:

Dotfuscator Pro 4.39 includes MUCH simpler Xamarin Project integration and Anti-tamper and Rooted device controls for Xamarin.Android

Dotfuscator 4.39, available for download, now includes Anti-tamper controls for Xamarin.Android. This feature adds to the growing list of run-time detection and response features that have rapidly emerged as standard controls required for every Android app processing sensitive information or secure transactions.

This release comes less than three weeks after Version 4.38 dramatically simplified the configuration of Dotfuscator within Xamarin projects and just a few months after Dotfuscator added Rooted Device detection and defense controls.

Time is of the essence for application security — the sooner IT teams can detect potential attacks and the longer it takes cybercriminals to crack app code, the better your business outcomes.

But with hackers adapting to overcome infosec efforts and new software vulnerabilities constantly emerging, how do companies gain more time — and give hackers less time — across their application stack?

It all starts with a change in direction: Security needs to shift left.

PreEmptive is doing its part to help the Vancouver Winter Olympics go off smoothly.

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