Internet giant buys into security.
Internet giant
Google
has acquired software analytics firm
Zynamics
, it was announced yesterday.
The German company, which was founded in 2004 by CEO Thomas Dullien (aka Halvar Flake) to research the automation of reverse engineering and code analysis, now produces four reverse-engineering tools:
BinDiff
,
VxClass
,
BinNavi
and
BinCrowd
, which are widely used by researchers in the security community.
Google
has not provided any clues as to how it plans to make use of the
Zynamics
technology, other than to bolster the protection offered to
Google
users. Details of the acquisition were not revealed.
The announcement can be found
here
.
Posted on 02 March 2011 by
Virus Bulletin
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