Eight days and 10 flights later I am back from SyScan360 in Beijing. It was my first visit to China and I had lots of fun observing many things that I only “knew” from reading. The scale and dimension of everything in Beijing is quite a surprise. No wonder why every Western company wants to be there. We had great food and an awesome visit to the Great Wall. A big thank you to the boys and girls from the organization for all their hard work and dedication....

Taipei is definitely one of my favourite cities in the world! I love its “infinite” amount of small shops, in particular at night when lights are on. Streets look so beautiful and busy. Everyone is very friendly and respectful, and most important, I feel very safe. And the food is awesome (thank you Thomas!). I really love it! If you like Asia, Taiwan is a must visit. The only problem is language – English is not widely spoken....

There’s a new attempt at jailbreak detection available at http://appminder.nesolabs.de. It is mostly aimed at Enterprise applications and not AppStore usage. I am not sure about AppStore rules but those tricks will most probably not pass the approval process. AppMinder provides three levels of jailbreak detection and anti-debugging measures. The different levels are related to self-integrity checking and code obfuscation rates. When you generate a new protection, it will give you some plug’n’pray code to plug in into your existent code base....

A reader was asking me some questions related to some stuff I used in my crackme and I decided to release its source code. Enough time went by already and I do not think it has many important secrets. Now, you will have to forgive me but that is one hell of ugly source code! I just cleaned up some dead code and some other minor cleanups. Right now I do not have enough time to fix and clean up the code, even if I really do not like it at all....

I was lucky enough to get my hands on an updated version of interesting multiplatform virus and decided to reverse the OS X part. The original virus is from 2006 by JPanic and it’s called CAPZLOQ TEKNIQ v1.0. The new version adds support to infect OS X binaries, 32 bit x86 only, although it supports infection of fat binaries (the x86 version only). Source code for the original version is available....