Exetools and exe-scene

[quosego]

One thing I notice is that there is almost no information in public about reverse engineering the protection systems commonly used for current commercial products (those that arent simply product specific custom jobs).

Pretty much all is documented including securom, read the paper from ARteam then fill in the blanks.. (Since there are a few.) There are automatic unpackers and papers for almost all protectors, if there are not then well the protector is rare or niche..

There are no simple guides to securom due to the simple fact that it is unlikely newbie reversers will succeed with any length of tutorial. There's a to much "gimme tut to learn because else it's impossible" mentality. Tuts are to help you a bit on the way, you must connect the dots yourself. That's how you become a good cracker. You can't follow one tut and expect to be able to crack all programs protected with that tut.. You must adapt yourself.