Question

________________ enables a hacker to open a piece of program or application and re-build it with further features & capabilities.

(a) Social engineering

(b) Reverse engineering

(c) Planting malware

(d) Injecting code

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This interesting question is from Hacking and Security Skills in chapter Cyber Security of Cyber Security

Answer 1

Right option is (b) Reverse engineering

The explanation: Reverse engineering is the technique used to enable a hacker to open a piece of program or application (usually in a low-level language such as Assembly language) and re-build it with further features & capabilities.