Hi All,

I was just wondering if anyone thinks subscribing to Hakin9 is worth it just for one year.. Yes I know about the spamming etc, and recent NMAP trojan article..   

Recently I've been spammed with a discount for a yearly subscription which made me think a little..

Currently I would like to change my career path to more security based IT work.  Originally I use to create OpenBSD firewalls/mailservers then ended up in infrastructure/SQL consulting for a few years.. so want to do something challenging, so more security based sounds like the right direction..

I would like to learn up more on security related topics so, even access to Hakin9 past articles might be a good way to learn up. 

Any thoughts or the recent happenings is enough of a deterrent for a subscription and its better to just dig through the net or pickup a few good books on the subject?

That probably makes more sense, do the harder work finding out multiple sources then being dependant on just one magazine.

BTW I love your sig -

"The day you stop learning is the day you start becoming obsolete."

So true in IT!!  I need to play catch up a little.

Hakin9 is a joke.  They spam people to get them to write articles and they don't even have technical reviewers.  Occasionally they get good articles, but many of them are really bad.  You can generally find better stuff online.

Some pros recently submitted an article about NMAP that was complete gibberish (on purpose).  The acronym for the title was DICKS and nobody noticed.

http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2012/q3/1050

I wouldn't waste a dollar on it.

I agree with Esojzuir, it was such a great mag when it was on paper but it’s just rubbish now! From what I have found from reading the free articles they publish most of the info can be found on the web for free…

Save your money, get a book, do a course…

It's not just Hakin9 that has an issue with other peoples work....

The Hacker News does the same thing. They seem to publish articles that have been just copied from other sites...

This story about a new Linux Rootkit (http://thehackernews.com/search/label/Rootkit.Linux.Snakso.a) seems to be a LOT like this story (http://www.tomshardware.com/news/rootkit-malware-security-software,19271.html).

This story about Shylock malware (http://thehackernews.com/2012/12/shylock-malware-undetectable-virus.html) looks just like this one on Trusteer.com (http://www.trusteer.com/blog/evading-malware-researchers-shylock%E2%80%99s-new-trick)

It's fine to use other peoples work but if you do make sure you give them credit! And if you are going to ask others to write content for you read it BEFORE you publish!