Hacker Magazines - An Overview

When you’re interested in infosec, you are probably looking for some good hacking and infosec magazines. Here is an overview of zines I read on a regular basis.

2600 - The Hacker Quarterly

• Founded: 1984

• Language: English

• Latest: 2016-06

• Level: beginner, advanced

• Frequency: quarterly

• Topics: implementation errors, url guessing, politics, activism

• URL: http://2600.com

• Price print: $27 p.a. USA and Canada / $38 p.a. overseas

PoC||GTFO

• Founded: 2013

• Language: English

• Latest: 2016-03

• Level: advanced, pro

• Frequency: quarterly

• Topics: crypto, file formats, timing attacks

• URL: https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/

• Price: free download, pdf (check the size and file type ;))

Phrack

• Founded: 1985

• Language: English

• Latest: 2016-06

• Level: advanced, pro

• Frequency: irregular

• Topics: rootkits, reverse engineering, exploiting

• URL: http://www.phrack.org/

• Price: free online

Cipher - Newsletter

Not a magazine, but the “Electronic Newsletter of the Technical Commitee on Security & Privacy - A Technical Committee of the Computer Society of the IEEE”

• Founded: 1994

• Language: English

• Latest: 2016-05

• Level: advanced

• Frequency: bimonthly

• Topics: crypto, book reviews, conference reports

• URL: http://www.ieee-security.org/cipher.html

• Price: free