hakin9 is bimonthly magazine about hacking and IT security, covering techniques of breaking into computer systems, defence and protection methods. Our magazine is useful for all those interested in hacking - both professionals (system administrators, security specialists) and hobbyists.

Hakin9 is published in English and distributed in all English-spoken countries. The greatest part of hakin9's circulation is sold in the USA, a bit less in Australia, Netherlands, Singapore and United Kingdom.

Hakin9 is a source of advanced, practical guidelines regarding the latest hacking methods as well as the ways of securing systems, networks and applications.

Hakin9 is published by Software Media LLC that is a US branch of European publishing house, Software – Wydawnictwo Sp. z o.o.

Hakin9 – Practical Protection is read and subscribed mostly by IT Security managers, officers and trainees employed in large enterprises all over the world.[citation needed] The authors of hakin9 articles are experienced IT security specialists who have worked in Information Technology Security business for years. One might then call hakin9 "A magazine for IT security professionals by IT security professionals".

Hakin9 team runs hakin9 portal where the information on the latest editions, IT security news and products is provided. (Wikipedia.org)

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CONTENTS
BASICS
12 File Inclusion Attacks
ALI RECAI YEKTA, ERHAN YEKTA
After reading this article, you will come to know about File Inclusion Attacks' methods and defense techniques against them.

ATTACK
20 Hacking RSS Feeds:
Insecurities in Implementing RSS Feeds
ADITYA K. SOOD
This paper discusses the infection vectors that occur due to insecure coding by developers and includes other related security issues. It provides a detailed analysis of the errors and efficient measures to correct those errors, while keeping in mind the original security concerns.

30 Alternate Data Streams or “Doctor Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde” Move to NTFS (Part II)
LAIC AURELIAN
The second part of the ADS series. This article reveals everything you should know about ADS, focusing on its practical use. You will learn how to create, use and delete ADS.

36 All in Memory Execution under Linux
ANTHONY DESNOS, FRÉDÉRIC GUIHÉRY, MICKAËL SALAÜN
A very useful paper on all in memory execution under Linux. The authors show its rules, all in memory's tools and protection methods against the execution.

46 The Real Dangers of Wireless Networks
STEPHEN ARGENT
The paper explains how to break into Wireless Networks and use Ettercap, Driftnet and Wireshark for sniffing. While reading this article, you will learn how to manipulate packets and view MSN conversations over the network.

DEFENSE
56 How to Deploy Robustness Testing
MIKKO VARPIOLA, ARI TAKANEN
In this article the authors explore various means of testing for the security mistakes, with the focus on deploying robustness testing into the software development lifecycle.

60 Protecting Data in a Postgres Database
ROBERT BERNIER
Part III of the three-part series on Postgres. This article addresses the issue of restricting access to data via the use of data encryption. After reading this paper, you will manage to use cryptographic functions obtained from two contributions modules.

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Hacking the Time

Finally the summer has arrived. I hope we all do not get too lazy and can get ourselves together to work efficiently. People always wait for something, don’t they? Some of us wait for the summer to come, some – just for the weekend. Why is it? Perhaps, we wish to make the time go faster or, at least, pretend it does.

The sense of time flow is so relative that it changes along with our emotions, mood and, unfortunately, expectations. Can we actually influence the time? There are scientists who have been trying to modify the time and those who are trying to manipulate the way we experience the time flow.

They say: babies and children have no feeling of time passing. We acquire the habit of perceiving time in a certain way, depending on which culture we grow up in. Most people in the West are so attached to linear time that we they do not realize it. Some cultures, however – for instance, some Native Americans – do not learn to experience time the same way as the rest of the world. They live in timelessness and I guess should be much happier. ...

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