hakin9_2010_01_26.pdf

Dear Readers,

expectations, hopes and what is most important resolutions. We

at hakin9 team also have such resolution: make hakin9 magazine

even better!

It wouldn’t be possible without the support we receive from our

authors, great team of betatesters and all involved in the project from the

very beginning. We would like to say thank you for all your hard work and

promise that we will do our best to make the magazine perfect. Some

say, that perfection does not exist, but we can at least try!

Interested what we have for you this time? Take a look at a quick

overview below.

In Basics section you will find a great article on SMS trickery. Tam

Hanna discusses new possibilities hackers have nowadays – exploits in

public transportation.

In the Attack section we have included several fascinating topics:

analysis of a suspicious executable named unwise_exe by Aditya

K Sood, hardware keylogger by Michael R. Heinzl, study of a new

genre of Malwares called “Scarewares” by Rajdeep Chakraborty and

eavesdropping on VoIP by Marc-Andre Meloche. You will also find

additional material to VoIP article on our covermount CD.

When it comes to Defense you can find a great work on knowing your

enemy – in other words detecting debuggers by Marek Zmysłowski. In

this section there’s also the 3rd part of forensics series by Harlan Carvey

– windows timeline analysis. You can find the first two in 5/09 and 6/09

issues. Christian Beek presents a very interesting technique of recovering

files – carving. This is definitely a must-read one! In this section you

will also find out how to keep your USB stick safe (article by Florian

Eichelberger).

As usual, we have prepared our regulars looking at the most up-

to-date security issues. Matthew Jonkman in his Emerging Threats

section talks about bots and DNS. In the tools reviews you will find HDD

Mechanic and Oxygen Forensic Suite 2. We have also prepared an

interview with Hemma Prafullchandra, Chief Security Architect at HyTrust.

We are always open for new ideas, suggestions and topics. Don’t

hesitate, keep the emails coming in!

Hope you will enjoy the issue!

hakin9 team

T ogether with the beginning of the new year we are full of new