In software engineering, code transforms from human-readable high-level languages like Python or Java into machine-readable binary (machine code). An intermediate step, bytecode, bridges ...

Computers don't understand English or even programming languages. What's needed is translation software, and it comes in different forms: compilers, interpreters and bytecode.

For example, the java.lang.instrumentation package provides APIs for doing load-time instrumentation of classes (what others might call load-time aspect-oriented weaving of code), but to do it ...

For example, encoding malicious code in base64 is a commonly used technique, but security tools can deal with such encoding.