Virtually all compilers — programs that transform human-readable source code into computer-executable machine code — are vulnerable to an insidious attack in which an adversary can introduce ...

Instead of fixing the source code, it appears that the company's developers made a series of careful changes directly to the buggy program's executable file.

Before running, a compiler converts the complete source code into machine code, creating a standalone executable file.

The way Microsoft patched a recent security bug has made several security and software experts believe the company might have lost the source code to one of its Office components.

The two-year effort to decompile Super Mario 64 wasn't started with a Windows executable in mind. Instead, it was motivated primarily by speedrunners who wanted "to understand the game's code ...

Stay tuned!" the developer tweeted. When it comes to the Windows server 2003 source code, NTDEV had more success and was able to compile the operating system and install it into a virtual machine.