Google Play Introduced

If you go in to the address market.google.com it will redirect itself to a new address that is play.google.com.
I am a bit late in writing this but i think many dont even care to go in to market and find the apps they need.
Google Play is going to be your one stop shop for all your favourite entertainment.With over 450,000 apps, millions of songs and books and thousands of movies,Google play has something for you.
Actually Google Play is divided in to 4 main parts

1. Google Play for Movies
2. Google Play for Music
3. Google Play for Apps and Games
4. Google Play for Books

Google Play Cloud

Google play offers more facilities for its users.It combines the power of cloud and user experience together. You can possibly buy a book on your android device and just read and enjoy the book in web.Google Play makes it possible to their customers.You can read ,watch,listen your content any time and anywhere you wish.No software required and no wires or syncing needed and the best part-Google Play cloud is free to use.

Share what you love

Google Play offers another option to Discover,shop,enjoy and share music,movies,books and apps anytime anywhere.When you discover an amazing song,a nail-biting horror or a memorable movie,the first thing you want to do is to share with your best friends.Seeing that in mind integrating Google + in to Google Play they provide you an option to share it directly to Google +.You can easily share it on your wall or send an email in just one click.

• Google Play for Movies

With Google Play you can watch HD movies including new releases,award-winning films and your favourite classics on any Android device or on the Web.Stream Movies and watch them online or you can download the movie which makes offline viewing possible.
Rent Movies and watch them instantly.Alternatively download your movie for offline viewing and view it later using Google Play Movies app or watch it directly on the Web.

• Google Play for Music

With Google Play you can find new artists and browse through millions of tracks just for you.You can also store up to 20,000 songs from your own library for free and instantly access your music on any Android devices or the web and the good news is there is no  more syncing or wires.
Sharing is caring isn't it? Google really pays respect to those words.Google Play allows you to give your friends a free listen to all those who are on Google +. And you get a free listen when they share what they have bought with you.It's sharing, discovering and buying music that Google had made just in to a Play.
Keep all your music in one place.All the music you get is stored in your music library automatically where as i said you can store up to 20,000 of your own songs for free.This helps you to save your space and also enjoy your collection anywhere.

• Google Play for Books

Are you searching over old books in the library for a new interesting book? Well you needn't to do that again because Google Play brings you an easy way to search for your favourite authors and new books in their collection.With Google Play,your next great read is always at fingertips.

You can shop the books at any time from anywhere in your Android Device or Web.Choose from millions of titels,browse new releases,sample books for free,and find the latest up-coming authors.

You can also share what you love with your family and friends via Bluetooth,Gmail or Google +.

All your books will be stored in cloud so that you can access it from anywhere.

• Google Play For Apps and Games

Looking for an app for your Android Device.Then you must have heard why android market has the biggest app collection ever.Yes Android Market goes into new meaning with Google Play while it continues to accept apps from all developers around.With over 450,000 Android Apps and games your phonetruly is your mobile entertaining system,organizer and portable computer all wrapped in one.

Finding new apps has always been easy on Android Market.It gets more  easier with the new Google Play.

If you are ready with the app you need dont even bother to touch your system to install your new app.Just select your device from web and find the app in your device. Isn't it easy?

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Play Your PC Games on PSP

I have earlier posted on how we can play PSP games on PC. Now let us think of playing the opposite.
We will do this step by step.

1. Download PSPdisp Click here to download.
2. Disable your antivirus before you start the installation because those may interrupt  
3. The Complete process of copying your data is completed while you install the software

• Let me help you with that too
• While Installing the software on your PC the OS will come up with the statement that the drivers are not proper.Just ignore the warning and continue with the installation. 
• After the drivers are installed a window will open up like this.This will be happening during the installation of software.

• In this window You should see a set of instructions on how to connect and get your PSP ready.Follow all the steps and i dont feel it necessary to explain all steps coz all these are easy and you can do it with ease.
• After completing the five steps in the window just click Copy Files Button
• Your PSP will start working from this moment and if the copying is completed successfully it should report you that in a new window.
• Now the setup will resume from the point where it stopped and asked you to copy the files.
• After completing the setup you should see another window.Just untick the view help file and click Finish

• In your tray bar you will see a popup message showing your IP address.You will have to note this down.It should be something like 192.168.X.X
• You have two options to make your PSP work on your PC.You can connect the PSP in two ways using you LAN address and USB.
• In the tray right click the icon of PSPdisp and then go to connection  and select the option you need.If you are selecting the LAN enter your IP address you noted down earlier in your PSP.Connect it to your PC and actually you can play anything in your PSP,Browse the internet and much more
• If you are selecting the USB connection option then you have to just connect it with your USB cable and you can use all functions as in LAN.

Any problems on this article can be mentioned as comments in this site.All your comments are welcome.

I will try to get a much better way (if exists)  to play the games on PSP.If you know please leave it in the comments

Enjoy :)

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Linux Password Cracking: Explain unshadow and john commands ( john the ripper tool )

John cracking modes

John can work in the following modes:
[a] Wordlist : John will simply use a file with a list of words that will be checked against the passwords. See RULES for the format of wordlist files.

[b] Single crack : In this mode, john will try to crack the password using the login/GECOS information as passwords.

[c] Incremental : This is the most powerful mode. John will try any character combination to resolve the password. Details about these modes can be found in the MODES file in john’s documentation, including how to define your own cracking methods.

Install John the Ripper Password Cracking Tool

John the ripper is not installed by default. If you are using Debian / Ubuntu Linux, enter:
$ sudo apt-get install john

Note: RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Redhat Linux user can grab john the ripper here. Once downloaded use rpm command:
# rpm -ivh john*

How do I use John the ripper to check weak passwords / crack passwords?

First use the unshadow command to combines the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files so John can use them. You might need this since if you only used your shadow file, the GECOS information wouldn’t be used by the "single crack" mode, and also you wouldn’t be able to use the -shells option. On a normal system you’ll need to run unshadow as root to be able to read the shadow file. So login as root or use old good sudo / su command under Debian / Ubuntu Linux:
$ sudo /usr/sbin/unshadow /etc/passwd /etc/shadow > /tmp/crack.password.db

RHEL / CentOS / Fedora Linux user type the following command:
# /usr/bin/unshadow /etc/passwd /etc/shadow > /tmp/crack.password.db

To check weak password (crack password), enter the following command:

WARNING! These examples uses brute-force ~ CPU-time consuming password cracking techniques.
To use John, you just need to supply it a password file created using unshadow command along with desired options. If no mode is specified, john will try "single" first, then "wordlist" and finally "incremental" password cracking methods.
$ john /tmp/crack.password.db

Output:

john /tmp/crack.password.db
Loaded 1 password (FreeBSD MD5 [32/32])
This procedure will take its own time. To see the cracked passwords, enter:
$ john -show /tmp/crack.password.db

test:123456:1002:1002:test,,,:/home/test:/bin/bash
didi:abc123:1003:1003::/home/didi:/usr/bin/rssh
2 passwords cracked, 1 left
Above output clearly indicates - user test has 123456 and didi has abc123 password.

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Website Hacking With Ubuntu

Nikto : Command line tool for scanning web servers
Nikto is a website vulnerability scanning tool(Free and Open Source) made fr0m Perl(A script programming language like php or python).Hence you can use Nikto as a web server assessment tool for finding insecure files and programs on web server(Specialy against XSS vulnerabilities;Cross Site Scripting is one of the important hacking techniques used thesedays by the most of the attackers).

Scanning Websites Using Nikto will give following information :

• misconfigured server and software
• default programs and files
• insecure programs and files
• outdated programs and servers or plugins

Nikto is available for all the major Operating systems i.e for Linux,MacOSX and windows(By using ActiveState perl).

How to install Nikto in Ubuntu 10.04 :
In Ubuntu 10.04 you can easily install the Nikto by using Synaptic Package Manager.
1.Open the Synaptic Package Manager and search for “nikto”.
2.Check the box for install.
3.Click on Apply changes to install the checked packages.
4.It may ask for installing other dependencies if so then click ok.
5.Installation will begin and wait for its completion.
6.After completion of the installation you can invoke Nikto fr0m the terminal.

Invoking Nikto fr0m Ubuntu 10.04 shell :
Hit CTRL+ALT+T (Default shortcut for starting terminal) or start it fr0m Applications->Accessories->terminal.

Some Commonly used commands for hacking :
nikto -host : to specify the host to scan

(after host you can put host name or IP address of the target web server)

-port : TCP port(s) to scan.You can put by using comma e.g (80,443) or by giving the range of port such as (80-100)

-cgidirs : For scanning specified cgi directories.

-dbcheck : Check the scan databases for syntax errors.

-update : Updates the plugins and databases fr0m cirt.net.

-tunning : this option is used to tune the scan test against the target.

-format : It is used to specify the file format of the output.

For more information about the commands used in Nikto you can go to usr->share->doc->nikto->nikto_mannual.html or go to its official website. http://cirt.net/nikto2
Examples of website hacks :
nikto -host targethostname.com

- Nikto v2.03/2.04
—————————————————————————
+ Target IP: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
+ Target Hostname: targethostname.com
+ Target Port: 80
+ Start Time: 2010-05-24 16:43:05
—————————————————————————
+ Server: Apache
- /robots.txt – retrieved but it does not contain any ‘disallow’ entries (which is odd). (GET)
+ OSVDB-0: Retrieved X-Powered-By header: PHP/5.2.12
+ OSVDB-5433: WebLogic may reveal its internal IP or hostname in the Location header. The value is “http://targethostname.com./”.
+ OSVDB-0: Non-standard header -cookie returned by server, with contents: wordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check; path=/
+ OSVDB-0: Non-standard header x-pingback returned by server, with contents: http://targethostname.com/xmlycp.php
+ OSVDB-0: Non-standard header x-powered-by returned by server, with contents: PHP/5.2.12

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Convert Your .apk files to .jar files

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I have searched a lot for a bit of information on converting .apk files to .jar files. I will share it with you.Let's get sarted.

Download .apk file from market

• Download any app from the Android Market [Go]
• Install Astro File Manager from Android Market [Go]  
• Open Astro > Tools > Application Manager/Backup and select the application to backup on SD card.
• Mount the phone as USB and access 'BACKUPAPPS' folder to find the apk of targetapp.(lets call this targetapp.apk).
• Copy it to your hard disk.

Decomiling apk to Dex format

• Download Dex2Jar [GO] 
• Android runs applications which are in Dalvik Executable (.dex) format.
• Run the following command to convert apk to jar.

dex2jar targetapp.apk file(./dex2jar targetapp.apk on terminal)

                                                 File 'targetapp.apk.dex2jar.jar' is created

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Viewing/Decompiling the Jar files to Java

Method 1 : Use JavaDecomiler (JD)

• Open 'targetapp.apk.dex2jar.jar' with jd-gui [Click to Download]  
• File > Save All Sources to save the class files in jar to java files.

Method 2 : JAD

• Extract contents of jar file on to a folder named src.  Use and unarchival utility like 7zip.
• Keep 'src' folder in the same directory where JAD and targetapp jar is present.
• Open JAD in cmd and execute the following command

jad -o -r -sjava -dsrc src/**/*.class (./jad on terminal)

Now src will contain decompiled Java files ready for manual code review.

Enjoy :)

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