- Jan 24, 2011
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In a rather surprising move, Google has acquired Zynamics, a German company which develops malware analysis and reverse engineering products.
The announcement was made on the Zynamics blog by the company's founder and CEO Thomas Dullien, a renowned security researcher who is better known in the security industry as Halvar Flake.
The researcher has a lengthier post on his personal blog in which he claims that Google's offer came as a complete surprise for him too.
"Zynamics was never designed to be acquired. To be quite honest, zynamics wasn't designed at all -- it mostly just 'happened," Halvar writes.
"We never had a plan outside of "build the tools that we want to have, others will then want to have them too'," he adds.
Zynamics develops several reverse engineering and binary analysis tools such as BinDiff, BinNavi, VxClass, BinCrowd and PDF Dissector.
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The announcement was made on the Zynamics blog by the company's founder and CEO Thomas Dullien, a renowned security researcher who is better known in the security industry as Halvar Flake.
The researcher has a lengthier post on his personal blog in which he claims that Google's offer came as a complete surprise for him too.
"Zynamics was never designed to be acquired. To be quite honest, zynamics wasn't designed at all -- it mostly just 'happened," Halvar writes.
"We never had a plan outside of "build the tools that we want to have, others will then want to have them too'," he adds.
Zynamics develops several reverse engineering and binary analysis tools such as BinDiff, BinNavi, VxClass, BinCrowd and PDF Dissector.
More details - link
