http://www.secuobs.com Observatoire de la securite Internet fr webmaster@secuobs.com 2009-07-07 15:42:37 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight : Ever heard of password masking problem To be honest, I have not – untilI’ve read the Stop Password Masking article by Jakob Nielsensomewhere referred to as "usability guru", followed by a lot ofother publications, blog posts and comments see ‘em all; so-calledsecurity guru Bruce Schneier wrote even two essays on that Well, thathttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/117572.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/117572.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-07-06 21:04:06 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - New statistics* shows disaster recovery DR is getting more attention,and more upper level execs become involved with DR issues Ideally,each company should have an emergency plan in case of power/systemfailure, loss of access, outside attack, sabotage or else – called DRPdisaster recovery plan or even DRRP disaster response and recoveryplan http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/117271.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/117271.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-07-03 15:26:54 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - In my previous post I suggested several variants of computer securitytranslated by different laws Now I’d like to get to ciphers…againviewed by law So, how does the law see encryption and decryptionissues through glasses of security standard First of all, it saysthere simply should be encryption/decryption tools availableENCRYTION AND DECRYPTION A – http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/116728.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/116728.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-07-01 19:34:23 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Not long ago I wrote about AMD’s TWKR when the first rumors reached themedia Now we have more news on that And the sad one is that TWKRstill cannot be purchased in retail and most probably won’t be, atleast not the ones from the sought-after 100 exemplars that existtoday Good one Tom’s Hardware http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/115889.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/115889.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-07-01 11:30:44 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Do you understand a word Except for "password" Translator neededhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/115754.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/115754.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-30 16:21:56 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Most laws define security obligations as reasonable, appropriate,suitable, necessary, adequate etc without giving more precisedirectives to follow Is it good or bad And what should be knownabout these standards Let’s see what major security standards sayabout recommended security measures Data Protection Directive inEurope …implement appropriate technical and organizational measures toprotect personal data http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/115265.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/115265.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-29 19:08:41 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Good news over here We’ve got a nice and shiny registration certificatefrom the United States Patent and Trademark Office Now our ThunderTables have their R sign As you know Thunder Tables allowguaranteed decryption of Adobe PDF and Microsoft Word documents, checkthe link to get a detailed description:http://blogcrackpasswordcom/2009/05/thunder-tables/http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/114867.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/114867.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-24 12:50:06 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - When we meet our customers at trade fairs in Germany, we are alwaysasked questions about legality of our tools The reason for this isthat German law on so-called “hacking tools” is very strict At thesame time the wording of the respective paragraphs is unclear andambiguous On Friday, German Federal Constitutional Court dismissedhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/113067.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/113067.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-23 15:52:59 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - In the city of Bozeman the US it is…pardon, was “acceptable” to requireuser credentials to your personal mailboxes and other socialnetworking accounts, when applying for a job What for For “athorough background check” Have a look at their press release:http://wwwbozemannet/bozeman/upcoming%20events/Background%20Check%20Press%20Release%20June%2019%202009pdfFortunately, they understood their error and removed thisinappropriate requirement I’m still curious what http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/112669.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/112669.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-23 15:52:59 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - According to NordicHardware, Sapphire Or Zotac Might Launch Larrabee Nofurther information on Larrabee yet, though; as we already wrote, theLarrabee lauch date is set to 2010 The only news from Intel so far isabout i3, i5, i7 CPU naming system: Lynnfield, Clarksfield, Arrandale,Clarkdale; besides, Intel plans shipments of 32nm ‘Clarkdale’ in http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/112668.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/112668.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-19 17:29:10 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - The world is waiting for the specifications of currently most powerfulprocessor – AMD Phenom II 42 TWKR Black Edition aka Formula 1 Theysay it has an unlocked clock multiplier for ease of overclocking,though consumes 200W and thus requires good cooling One of thepictures on the website of Maingear PC founder and CEO Wallace http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/111577.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/111577.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-18 14:40:28 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - ATI Stream Developer Showcase enrolled our Elcomsoft Wireless SecurityAuditor in its security section, among other “notable applications”that use ATI Stream technology:http://developeramdcom/SAMPLES/STREAMSHOWCASE/Pages/defaultaspx#securityYet another pleasant morning newshttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/111164.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/111164.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-18 14:40:28 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - In this entry I’d like to suggest a kind of a list of various legaldecisions on password abuse I could find on the web Your add-insare welcome, just put in any other acts you know… Georgia ComputerSystems Protection Act e Computer Password Disclosure Any personwho discloses a number, code, password, or other means of access tohttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/111163.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/111163.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-16 19:13:02 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Time for shoulder surfing is gone, today we have more sophisticated waysto track what you are typing on your keyboard A series of appearingkeyboard attacks yet again prove its incapability of keeping secretesLet’s see what we have… First, a newly released open sourcehardware-n-software sniffer for wireless keyboards – Keykeriki - thetechnology comes http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/110292.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/110292.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-10 22:04:09 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - The Register reports VAServcom has been attacked and now more than100000 websites have gone forever because of company’s poor passwordpolicy The attackers are unknown and Rus Foster, former VAServcomdirector claims that anonymous messages indicated nonexistentpasswords I wouldn’t like to sound sarcastic but their description atAboutUsorg reads quite http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/108154.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/108154.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-09 11:44:12 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - We wrote about the new iPhone last week, but these we only rumors Andnow it is officially announced on WWDC; the sales will start on June17th in the US Additional information is available at Apple website: general and about iPhone 30 software update But unfortunately,still no tech specs of its GPU; http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/107302.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/107302.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-08 15:15:49 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Password management has got government support and the status of thenational initiative in Australia The National E-security AwarenessWeek is held from 5-12 June this year A series of events andworkshops take place across Australia to raise awareness of e-securityrisks In the interview to ABC radio, Australian CommunicationsMinister Stephen Conroy urged http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/106913.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/106913.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-08 08:26:34 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Securing home Wi-Fi remains uncertain when it comes to law Some urgeusers are not liable when they use default security settings and it ismanufacturer who is guilty when/if wireless network was ’successfully’abused Others put whole responsibility on users This is practicallya question to law and usually its resolution depends on lawyers’skills http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/106856.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/106856.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-08 08:26:34 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - He started from hacking for fun cracking phone systems, then he foundedDefCon and Black Hat hacker conferences btw, we had a chance to visitDefCon9 in 2001 and now Jeff Moss is chosen to take care of US cybersecurity affairs No doubt, Jeff Moss has the guts to resist cyberterrorism and protect national http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/106855.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/106855.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-06 17:27:12 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Sorry I did not write blog for some time… Just returned from one-weekvacation at Rhodos Greece I think you’re aware of COMPUTEX TAIPEI —the largest computer exhibition in Asia and the second largest in theworld, next to CeBIT in Germany It is already running; actually;today June 6th is the last day But http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/106525.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/106525.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-06 17:27:12 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Latest rumors about iPhone: probably, it will have 3D Graphics Chip init, according to Fudzilla article Let’s hope that it will beCUDA-enabled, so we can make GPU-accelerated password cracker for ithttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/106524.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/106524.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-05 17:38:52 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Jerry Fishenden, Microsoft National Technology Officer in the UK leaveshis post to work on his own He intends to elaborate “a guidebook forpoliticians and policymakers about what does and doesn’t work in termsof delivering an effective technology policy” Source: CIO businesstechnology leadership Jerry Fishenden’s blog: http://ntoukcom/http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/106251.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/106251.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-05 12:58:38 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - When it comes to Larrabee one of most intriguing things is itsperformance Official information provided by Intel was not enough toget good estimation In my previous post I’ve estimated it as "roughlyequivalent to GTX 295" Well, it seems I was too optimistic Latestrumors are that current Larrabee samples deliver same performancehttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/106166.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/106166.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-03 17:25:12 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - It looks like AMD has outrun NVIDIA today Its World’s First MicrosoftDirectX® 11 Graphics Processor, presented a few hours ago in Taipei,is currently the best hardware for Windows 7 Catch up, NVIDIAHowever not many details of it suggested At least enjoy the graphics:http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/105411.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/105411.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-03 10:09:09 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - The Central Board of Excise and Customs of India claimed that compromisedpasswords are the biggest threat to system security Despite elaborateinstructions on passwords, which all employees are supposed to follow,“instances of password compromise continue to recur with unfailingregularity”, an unnamed official says Sharing of passwords wasidentified as one of the http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/105292.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/105292.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-03 10:09:09 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - ElcomSoft is launching a survey intended to collect more information onhow people handle their passwords, which remain a major way for userauthentication Whether you are ElcomSoft customer or haven’tseriously thought about password security, we hope you will answer ourquestions The questionnaire is well designed and if you have no timeyou can http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/105291.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/105291.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-03 07:37:23 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - The summer has begun, and as usual at this time of the year big companiespresent the results of hard work to the public With Microsoft’s Bingand Google Wave flooding the news, you might have overlooked the jointrelease of NVIDIA and Supermicro At Computex 2009 in Taipei, Taiwan,Nvidia and Supermicro announced “a new class http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/105253.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/105253.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-02 19:27:12 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Want to get an overall picture of all potential threats to yourunprotected pc and how it can be used when hacked Have a look at thevivid graph drafted by Brian Krebs It’s not only credit cards andpasswords… Hey, Brian says this monstrous list not complete, I wonderif you have something to http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/105004.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/105004.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-02 10:09:03 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - About a month ago annual Eurocrypt conference took place in Cologne,Germany This is rather academic event as most if not all events heldby IACR so it is not always easy to read its proceedings filled withformulas and theorems Nonetheless there are usually couple of veryinteresting works presented at each such event http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/104690.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/104690.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-06-01 14:20:21 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Today’s technologies allow staying online practically 24 hrs a day,periodically falling into a sleeping mode The Internet became easilyaccessible and numerous devices can connect us to the web fromeverywhere, and every time when we surf the web we are beingregistered, at least via IP address of our devices I bet it was http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/104381.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/104381.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-29 17:47:08 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - First, Gigabyte suggests GV-N275UD-896H GeForce GTX 275 with specialcooling system added And second news - Thermaltake Technology threw astylish Massive23 laptop cooler +25C in Moscow makes us think of abetter cooling here as wellhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/103077.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/103077.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-28 12:51:33 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Hardware acceleration of password recovery has been a hot topic for quitesome time already We were the first to adopt widely available graphiccards for this purpose and we’re proud of this Today I’d like toshare some thoughts on hardware acceleration for password recovery,its past, present, and future I will also cover http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/102553.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/102553.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-27 16:48:48 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - It seems like monarchy is to reign in the cyber world During the lastweeks mass media heavily speak about the need of finding a properauthority who will be responsible for electronic information securityissues: Obama seeks one for the White House, whereas EU commissionerfor information society and media Viviane Reding announces thathttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/102200.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/102200.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-27 11:48:09 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - First of all, sad news: Intel Larrabee is delayed till 2010 we wereexpecting it in Q4′2009, according to the reports With 32 coresonboard though this number is not confirmed yet, it looks like avery good system for password cracking Some Larrabee developmenttools and resources are already available, and of course, we’re http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/102128.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/102128.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-26 19:45:15 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - All modern AMD and Intel processors are 64-bit and corresponding Windowsversions are also on the market It is highly recommended to use64-bit systems though 32-bit systems perfectly work on 64-bitprocessors because in this case more than 3 Gb RAM can be employed,and today we have lots and lots of 64-bit systems, http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/101766.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/101766.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-22 11:49:26 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - We wrote about Cost-effective video cards recently, but what about betterones, if the prise does not really matter Just read Best Of The Best:High-End Graphics Card Roundup at Tom’s Hardware Large ExpensivePower-consuming But really fast — so best choice if you deal with GPUacceleration Btw, don’t forget to get a good coller for your http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/100455.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/100455.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-22 11:49:26 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Wow, Adobe rethinks PDF security Curious why Because of vulnerabilitiesin Abobe Reader and so zero-day exploits, of course From thearticle: According to Finnish security company F-Secure, patching489% of all targeted attacks conducted this year involved a maliciousPDF file attached to a legitimate-looking e-mail, a huge change from2008, when PDFs made up http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/100454.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/100454.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-21 19:22:42 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - From time to time we’re receiving questions regarding varioustechnologies used in our products, especially Thunder Tables™ and GPUacceleration Today I’d like to explain what exactly Thunder Tables™is and what it’s not About Thunder Tables™ From user’s perspectiveThunder Tables™ is a technology allowing fast and guaranteeddecryption of Adobe PDF and Microsoft Word documents, http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/100113.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/100113.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-20 19:19:27 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Although it is widely known that authentication via ‘secret’ questions isnot secure, now we finally have statistical evidence to prove itMicrosoft Research and Carnegie Mellon University have conducted astudy that measures how guessable answers to ‘secret’ questions areThe researchers looked at the questions used by AOL, Google,Microsoft, and Yahoo in http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/99514.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/99514.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-20 19:19:27 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Time is money, difficult to contradict this fact And another proven factis that you lose something exactly when something turns out to beabsolutely necessary Once you lost a password to your Word documentor presentation that you were going to give in an hour, or Excelreport which was supposed to be sent http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/99513.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/99513.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-20 10:03:51 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Considering a new AMD/ATI or NVIDIA video card for password crackingwith Wireless Security Auditor or Distributed Password Recovery toget the most from GPU acceleration technology — at an affordableprice Read the Best Graphics Cards For The Money: May ‘09 at Tom’sHardware I especially like the Graphics Card Hierarchy Charthttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/99338.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/99338.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-18 15:11:20 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Tom’s Hardware has tested two mainstream NVIDIA cards GeForce 9600 GTand GeForce 9800 GTX on several CUDA-enabled applications Theapplications were: SETI@home CyberLink PowerDirector Tsunami MPEGEncoder Super LoiLoScope Badaboom The results are a bit disappointing,I’d say… Our Distributed Password Recovery and Wireless SecurityAuditor are much better optimized, actually Btw, NVIDIA GT300 AlreadyTaped Out 512 shader http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/97613.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/97613.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-18 15:11:20 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - A number of D-link routers are now equipped with captcha feature Soundsinteresting Chief technology officer in D-link says: "We are excitedto be the first in the market to implement captcha into our routers,providing yet another layer of security to our customers" No doubt,captcha is a wonderful spam filter for mails and a reliable http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/97612.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/97612.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-15 19:04:38 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - This week has witnessed several scams involving social sites On TuesdayTwitter users posted answers to their online security questions foreveryone to see On Wednesday Twitter account of the New York Timeswas hacked, and on Thursday we witnessed a phishing attack onFacebook Phishing lure: think twice, then click Facebook scam was ahttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/96804.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/96804.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-14 10:17:37 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - AMD has hit another megahertz milestone record today In fact, this isATI Radeon HD 4890 card, overclocked to 1 GHz at the factorynormally, it runs at 850 MHz; surprisingly, air cooled I thoughtthat water cooling would be neededhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/96224.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/96224.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-14 00:14:02 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Today’s businesses are very mobile Sometimes you don’t even need to havea conventional office, it becomes virtual, it is always with you inyour mobile phones, netbooks and laptops Such mobile mini-officesstuffed with corporate documents and reports, partners’ data,confidencial correspondence, access passwords are in danger of beingstolen, both virtually and physically http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/95978.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/95978.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-13 12:09:35 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - If you are going to purchase a new computer or make it yourself, youshould definitely think about graphics — for CAD/CAM, gaming,searching for extraterrestrial intelligence at home or passwordcracking Of course, thinking of budget, too I hope you’re alreadyaware of NVIDIA SLI which allows to use multiple video cards, but howa single dual-GPU compares to two single-GPU ones http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/95635.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/95635.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-13 12:09:35 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Probably you’ve already heard about this vicious circle thousand times:Requiring that passwords be long and complex makes it less likely thatattackers will guess or crack them, but it also makes the passwordsharder for users to remember, and thus more likely to be storedinsecurely This increases the likelihood that users will store theirhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/95634.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/95634.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-12 13:14:19 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Apart from official IT Security events, London ethical hackers like toorganize monthly meetings such as DC4420 in clubs, sometimes changingtheir location In an informal manner they exchange their experience,represent new ideas and technologies We learned about this eventfirst from icesurfer who follows us on twitter when he dropped by ourbooth at http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/94832.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/94832.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-12 13:14:19 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Highly recommended: Burned, Dropped, Drowned: HDD Recovery In Pictures Ihope that you will not encounter into such situations, though :Another "funny" story about hard disks: US missile launch data on eBayhard drive Btw, if you’re looking for good disk/file recoverysoftware, I can recommend you Handy Recovery this is not anadvertisement Simple, fast, cheap, and http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/94831.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/94831.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-12 13:14:19 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - There is a few, so I’ll put ‘em all into a single blog post First,Phoenix Technologies announced a program for Windows XP/Vista tolink mobile phones with computer But no, this is not about datatransfer between the phone and PC Indeed, this is a security system:walk away from your computer, and http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/94830.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/94830.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-05-10 23:59:12 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Do you still reuse passwords The recent study from University ofCalifornia shows again that such a bad habit continues to exist Theworst thing about reusing passwords is that it doesn’t require being atechnically skilled hacker to guess your password for this or thatdocumenthttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/94259.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/94259.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-04-30 04:25:16 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - There is a lot of speculation about what has happened between Elcomsoftand PGP here on Infosecurity Europe 2009 in London, so I would like toshare my own point of view which may or may not coincide withElcomsoft’s First, I’d like to make it clear that I do respect PGPCorporation; those guys are http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/90361.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/90361.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-04-30 04:25:16 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Note to PGP legal dept: I’m not going to put the ® sign every time when Imention PGP I’m just tired; we already did that in our press releaseand on our web site, and I think it’s enough No, really Well, I’llrepeat one more time: all names like PGP are trademarks or registeredhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/90360.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/90360.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-04-29 23:55:27 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - From F-Secure advises against using Adobe Reader article: Of the targetedattacks on managers, politicians and other high-ranking individualsregistered this year, almost 50 per cent have exploited six securityvulnerabilities in Adobe’s PDF products In 2008 it was Microsoft Wordwhich proved the most popular target – with 35 per cent – for suchattacks, although http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/90250.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/90250.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-04-29 23:55:27 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - If you added this blog to your news feeder, then you prefer gettingskilled rather than getting owned – as in Troopers’ motto Troopers09is an international IT-Security Conference held in Munich, GermanyThis event is created for CISOs, ISOs, IT-Auditors, IT-Sec-Admins,IT-Sec Consultants and everyone who is involved with IT-Security on aprofessional basis The http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/90249.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/90249.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-04-29 23:55:27 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - There is only one way to break through PGP® encryption - GPU acceleratedbrute force - and that one is too many New Elcomsoft DistributedPassword Recovery v 280206 crunches PGP® passwords 200 times fasterusing graphic chips EDPR is all for cutting unnecessary costs, savingtime and energy Just using video cads you have at http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/90248.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/90248.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-04-29 23:55:27 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Finally, nVidia’s GT300 specifications revealed 512 cores remember thatGT200 has only 240, which means about 3 TFLOPS — can you imaginethat We’re also expecting the new generation of Tesla supercomputersbased on those GPUs GT300 also gives direct hardware access for CUDA30, DirectX 11, OpenGL 31 and OpenCLhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/90247.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/90247.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-04-29 23:55:27 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - AMD revealed that its plans a 12-core Opteron processor in 2010, and a16-core Opteron in 2011 Unfortunately, almost no further/technicaldetails — more cores is definitely good, but we’d like to see whetherAMD is able to implement SSE2 effectively Right now, SSE2instructions are executed much slower on AMD processors than on Intelhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/90246.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/90246.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-04-29 23:55:27 - 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Advanced Password Cracking Insight : So you ve got an iPhone, and it s locked, and you don t know the passcode This situation is so common, and the market has so many solutions and solutions that we felt a short walkthrough is necessary What exactly can be done to the device depends on the following factors Hardware Generation From the point of http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/603800.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/603800.shtml Secuobs.com : 2016-04-01 11:57:49 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Two-step verification and two-factor authentication both aim to help users secure their Apple ID, adding a secondary authentication factor to strengthen security While Apple ID and password are something you know , two-step verification and two-factor authentication are both based on something you have However, Apple doesn t make it easy Instead of using a single two-factor http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/602632.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/602632.shtml Secuobs.com : 2016-03-21 13:27:34 - 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Advanced Password Cracking Insight - We are closely following the case of Apple battling the US government on unlocking the iPhone of San Bernardino mass murderer Farook who killed 14 in December 2015 In our previous post we looked at what the FBI was asking, and why Apple opposes the motion On February 19th, a new document shows up The http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/598968.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/598968.shtml Secuobs.com : 2016-02-18 17:42:35 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - On Tuesday, a federal judge ordered Apple to assist the authorities in breaking into a locked iPhone 5C used by Syed Farook, who killed 14 in San Bernardino in December According to the FBI, the phone might contain critical information about connections with Islamic terrorist groups Apple opposed the motion and published an open letter http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/598692.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/598692.shtml Secuobs.com : 2016-02-05 15:14:03 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - 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Advanced Password Cracking Insight - While here at ElcomSoft we offer a limited range of tools for acquiring Android devices that s pretty much limited to over-the-air acquisition, we are still often approached with questions when one should use cloud extraction, and when other acquisition methods should be used In this article, we decided to sum up our experience in acquiring http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/596836.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/596836.shtml Secuobs.com : 2016-01-25 13:26:41 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - As we all know, Google collects and processes an awful lot of data about pretty much everyone who is using the company s cloud services or owns a smartphone running the Android OS or, to be precise, is using a device with Google Mobile Services Just how much data is available was described in our previous http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/596413.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/596413.shtml Secuobs.com : 2015-12-22 10:35:45 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - In today s thoroughly connected world, everyone shares at least some of their personal information with, well, strangers Voluntarily or not, people using personal computers or mobile devices have some of their information transmitted to, processed, stored and used by multiple online service providers Took a selfie shot Your face and possibly your friends faces will http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593906.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593906.shtml Secuobs.com : 2015-11-26 12:31:57 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - We ve recently updated Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery, adding enhanced GPU-assisted recovery for many supported formats In a word, the new release adds GPU-accelerated recovery for OS X keychain, triples BitLocker recovery speeds, improves W-Fi password recovery and enhances GPU acceleration support for Internet Key Exchange IKE Recovering OX S Keychain Passwords Mac OS X employs http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/591272.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/591272.shtml Secuobs.com : 2015-11-25 12:27:53 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - We have recently released a brand new product, Elcomsoft Explorer for WhatsApp Targeted at home users and forensic experts along, this Windows-based, iOS-centric tool offers a bunch of extraction options for WhatsApp databases Why the new tool, and how is it different from other extraction options offered by Elsomsoft s mobile forensic tools Before we move http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/591173.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/591173.shtml Secuobs.com : 2015-11-23 15:04:47 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Earlier this week we released the second version of Elcomsoft iOS Forensic Toolkit, our physical acquisition tool for iPhones and iPads For the first time ever, the toolkit comes with the ability to acquire information from jailbroken 64-bit iPhones such as Apple iPhone 5S, 6 6S Plus, and 64-bit iPads including iPad mini 2-4, iPad Air Air2 and http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/590895.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/590895.shtml Secuobs.com : 2015-11-18 11:15:18 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Big news iOS Forensic Toolkit receives its first major update And it s a big one Not only does version 20 bring support for iOS 9 handys We also expanded acquisition support for jailbroken devices, enabling limited data extraction from jailbroken devices locked with an unknown passcode Last but not least For the first time ever, http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/590380.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/590380.shtml Secuobs.com : 2015-11-13 07:51:15 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - With hardware-backed full-disk encryption and additional protection of sensitive user data located in the keychain, Apple iOS is the most secure mobile operating system out there Acquisition approaches that are traditional for Android and Windows Phone devices namely, JTAG, ISP and chip-off are completely meaningless for iOS devices running even years-old generations of the system http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/589962.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/589962.shtml Secuobs.com : 2015-11-11 11:43:48 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - We ve just released the first major update to Elcomsoft Phone Viewer, our lightweight forensic tool for glancing over data extracted from mobile devices Boosting version number to 20, we added quite a lot of things, making it a highly recommended update So what s new in Phone Viewer 20 Improved compatibility with full support for iOS http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/589746.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/589746.shtml Secuobs.com : 2015-10-29 09:57:37 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - If you follow industry news, you already know about the release of iOS 9 You may also know that iOS 9 is the toughest one to break, with no jailbreak available now or in foreseeable future With no jailbreak and no physical acquisition available for newer devices, what methods can you still use to obtain http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/588346.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/588346.shtml Secuobs.com : 2015-09-16 15:22:57 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - We have just released a brand new tool, and this time it s not about mobile forensics Or is it Elcomsoft Password Digger is designed for decrypting the content of Mac OS protected storage, the keychain For one, it s a Windows tool, so you ll need to pull keychain files from the Mac OS system along with http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/583702.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/583702.shtml Secuobs.com : 2015-08-11 13:47:19 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - As you may already know from the official press release, we ve recently updated Elcomsoft Phone Breaker to version 410 From that release, you could learn that the updated version of the tool targets passwords managers, adding the ability to instantly decrypt passwords stored in BlackBerry Password Keeper for BlackBerry 10 and attack 1Password containers If http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/579828.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/579828.shtml Secuobs.com : 2015-07-06 16:41:47 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Although we ve already embraced the EFS-encryption decryption in some of our white papers and case studies, now we d like to share a video tutorial because seeing once is better than hearing reading twice So, in this video you will see how to decrypt EFS-encrypted data with help of Advanced EFS Data Recovery and how to recover http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/576289.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/576289.shtml Secuobs.com : 2015-06-25 08:59:47 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - With all the trouble of jailbreaking iOS 8 devices and the lack of support for 64-bit hardware, does iOS physical acquisition still present meaningful benefits to the investigator Is it still worth your time and effort attempting to acquire that iPhone via a Lightning cord Granted, jailbroken iOS devices are rare as hen s teeth You http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/575365.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/575365.shtml Secuobs.com : 2015-06-08 17:50:41 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Quite often our new customers ask us for advice about what they should start with in order to use the program effectively In fact, there are various situations when the tool can come in handy by decrypting data securely protected with TrueCrypt, BitLocker To-Go , or PGP and we d need a super long video to describe all http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/573367.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/573367.shtml Secuobs.com : 2015-05-19 13:33:46 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - As you may already know, we have just updated our recently released forensic tool, Elcomsoft Phone Viewer The update received a major performance boost and numerous usability enhancements So what s the point of having a yet another mobile forensic tool Aren t there enough already In fact, we considered making this tool for a long time, http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/571221.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/571221.shtml Secuobs.com : 2015-04-30 15:48:55 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - I know most computer gurus and pros never read through program manuals or help files and prefer to learn everything using proverbial method of trial and error Does this sound like you Of course Exceptions are very seldom So, here s something nice that will save your time and help your experience with Elcomsoft Wireless Security http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/569280.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/569280.shtml Secuobs.com : 2015-04-01 14:10:02 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - As everyone knows, the high-speed, extremely powerful and increasingly popular ElcomSoft tools have already become industry standard in IT-security, risk management and computer forensics industries After achieving these targets, our team got a little bored That s why we re happy to announce a refreshing turn in the history of our code-breaking business by making an injection of several http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/565633.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/565633.shtml Secuobs.com : 2015-03-27 14:17:34 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Legal Disclaimer The information provided in this article is strictly for educational purposes Therefore, you confirm that you are not going to use it to break into someone else s Apple account If you wish to apply ideas described in this article, you are taking full responsibility for your actions Non-Legal Disclaimer Just relax It s not http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/565071.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/565071.shtml Secuobs.com : 2015-03-12 12:05:42 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - As you may already know from our official announcement, we ve recently updated Elcomsoft Phone Breaker to support Apple accounts upgraded to iCloud Drive and decrypting keychains from iCloud Considering that one can access files stored in iCloud Drive without any third-party tools, is the update really worth the buzz Read along to find out Before http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/563145.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/563145.shtml Secuobs.com : 2015-03-11 13:07:52 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Nowadays, computer data is everywhere around and it s growing at amazing speeds from hour to hour It s really fast, easy and convenient to stay active online day and night No matter how easy it may be for the user, for computer crime investigators, on the contrary, it is the toughest challenge to collect and decrypt http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/562974.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/562974.shtml Secuobs.com : 2015-03-05 13:26:19 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Revision 1 of this article was initially published on January 6, 2015 on Sanderson Forensics Forum http sandersonforensicscom forum entryphp 19-Sanderson-SQLite-Forensic-Toolkit-on-a-Mac-OS-X-using-CrossOver In Revision 2, I have added a small section, to highlight the importance of understanding SQLite databases and using SQLite tools in order to analyze the information contained within SQLite database files This article is related to running http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/562250.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/562250.shtml Secuobs.com : 2015-02-26 11:47:44 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Anyone considering the possibility to purchase Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery has a wonderful opportunity to explore the program together with Sethioz and get a clearer understanding of how the program works and what requires your special attention when you are using EDPR This video assumes you are already familiar with basics of password cracking and http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/561271.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/561271.shtml Secuobs.com : 2015-02-18 12:26:04 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - If you care about password cracking, hardware acceleration or Wi-Fi protection this interview with our friend Sethioz is certainly for you Being currently a freelance security tester Sethioz kindly shared his experience in cracking passwords using video cards, which in its turn derived from his gaming interest in cards His personal experience may be very http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/560012.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/560012.shtml Secuobs.com : 2015-02-03 12:41:52 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - We have just released a long-awaited update to one of our flagship products, Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery While you can learn more about what s been added and changed from our official announcement, in this post we d like to share some insight about the path we took to design this update Hardcore Gaming The Cutting Edge http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/557766.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/557766.shtml Secuobs.com : 2015-02-01 08:44:45 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - A Practical Guide for the Rest of Us How many passwords does an average Joe or Jane has to remember Obviously, it s not just one or two Security requirements vary among online services, accounts and applications, allowing or disallowing certain passwords Seven years ago, Microsoft determined in a study that an average user had 65 http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/557488.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/557488.shtml Secuobs.com : 2015-01-27 12:50:49 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Everyone must comply with government requests to disclose information How far should one go when disclosing such information This is up to the company In a recent trend, several big IT companies including Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft among others teamed up to propose a change in US legislatures concerning governments spying on its citizens http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556718.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556718.shtml Secuobs.com : 2014-12-17 12:35:17 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - In light of recent security outbreaks, Apple introduced a number of changes to its security policies As one of the leading security companies and a major supplier of forensic software for iOS devices, ElcomSoft is being constantly approached by IT security specialists, journalists and forensic experts The most common question is how will the new http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/550617.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/550617.shtml Secuobs.com : 2014-12-17 12:35:17 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - We are excited to announce an update to one of our oldest mobile forensic tools, Elcomsoft Phone Breaker In this release we mostly targeted iCloud acquisition, although we ve made some changes to the password recovery algorithm targeting iOS offline backups All in all, the new tool can be used under a wider range of circumstances, http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/550616.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/550616.shtml Secuobs.com : 2014-10-02 13:49:03 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Introduction Two years ago, ElcomSoft analyzed some 17 password management applications for mobile platforms only to discover that no single app was able to deliver the claimed level of protection The majority of the apps relied upon proprietary encryption models rather than utilizing iOS exemplary security model As a result, most applications were either plain http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/538129.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/538129.shtml Secuobs.com : 2014-06-17 12:27:27 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - With little news on physical acquisition of the newer iPhones, we made every effort to explore the alternatives One of the alternatives to physical acquisition is over-the-air acquisition from Apple iCloud, allowing investigators accessing cloud backups stored in the cloud While this is old news we learned to download data from iCloud more than two http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/519227.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/519227.shtml Secuobs.com : 2014-05-08 12:38:21 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - This time, we are updating our bread-and-butter mobile forensic tool, Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker, to version 30 beta This new version has many things that are new or have changed Let s see what s new, and why New user interface adds cross-platform compatibility BlackBerry 10 support Windows Phone 8 acquired from the cloud Apple tells you http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/512485.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/512485.shtml Secuobs.com : 2014-03-31 20:22:26 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Do you think you know everything about creating and using backups of Apple iOS devices Probably not Our colleague and friend Vladimir Bezmaly MVP Consumer security, Microsoft Security Trusted Advisor shares some thoughts, tips and tricks on iTunes and iCloud backups iPhone Backups Mobile phones are everywhere They are getting increasingly more complex and increasingly http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/505649.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/505649.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-12-12 15:08:15 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - With most waited winter holidays just around the corner, now is the best time to take care of your easy after-holidays start at work with less headache, more pleasure, and all your passwords in place We give you 35pourcents discount for our product releases of 2013 starting from today and available till 16th December, 2013 http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/485927.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/485927.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-11-06 12:59:34 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - This fall has been quite rich in IT security events for ElcomSoft We managed to visit a number of conferences and trade shows in order to, as we say in Russia, see the others and be seen it-sa in Nuremberg welcomed us with a few warm sunny days and a lot of IT-security experts at http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/479311.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/479311.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-10-14 14:23:02 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - We ve just returned from Karlsruhe, Germany from an event named FTDay Hosted by mh-Service, a long-time ElcomSoft partner in Germany, this was a small but quality event The first day was packed with sessions The second day was dedicated to practical workshops During the first day, we talked about the acquisition methods for iOS devices Physical, http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/474470.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/474470.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-09-03 17:16:22 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - This is the second part of Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker Enhances iCloud Forensics and Speeds Up Investigations article Extracting the content of an iPhone is only half the job Recovering meaningful information from raw data is yet another matter The good news is there are plenty of powerful tools providing iOS analytics The bad news You re http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/466356.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/466356.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-08-22 14:09:38 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - It s been a while since we updated Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker, dedicating our efforts to physical acquisition of iOS devices instead Well, now when the new iOS Forensic Toolkit is out, it is time to update our classic phone recovery tool The new version of Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker is released While you can read http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/464377.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/464377.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-07-17 13:34:48 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Soon after releasing the updated version of iOS Forensic Toolkit we started receiving questions about the new product Did we really break iPhone 5 Does it truly work Are there limitations, and what can you do about them We decided to assemble all these questions into a small FAQ If you d rather read the full, http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/457397.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/457397.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-07-03 12:13:54 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - I ve just returned from REcon 2013 held in Montreal, where I talked about breaking iCloud services everyone the slides from that presentation are available right here, and the organizers promised a video soon I spoke about WHY breaking the iCloud, HOW we did it and WHO can use it I can briefly stop here, and http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/455171.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/455171.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-06-27 13:41:02 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - The CEIC 2013 conference is over We were happy to connect with our partners and customers at our booth during the show hours We d like to thank everyone who stopped by, and give our special thanks to those providing valuable feedback and suggestion on our products To those who wanted to see our tools settled http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/453991.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/453991.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-06-13 12:57:22 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - The CEIC 2013 conference is over We were happy to connect with our partners and customers at our booth during the show hours We d like to thank everyone who stopped by, and give our special thanks to those providing valuable feedback and suggestion on our products To those who wanted to see our tools settled http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/451194.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/451194.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-05-30 12:19:50 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Some time ago, I wrote a blog post on hacked Yahoo , Dropbox and Battlenet accounts, and how this can start a chain reaction Companies seem to begin recognizing the threat, and are starting to protect their customers with today s cutting edge security two-factor authentication A word on two-factor authentication In Europe, banks and financial institutions http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/448513.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/448513.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-02-25 12:04:38 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - It s been a while since we released the new version of Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker that allows downloading backups from iCloud read the press release Many customers all over the world are already using this new feature intensively, but we still get many questions about its benefits, examples of cases when it can be used http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/429782.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/429782.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-02-21 13:17:51 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Apple iCloud is a popular service providing Apple users the much needed backup storage space Using the iCloud is so simple and unobtrusive that more than 190 million customers as of November, 2012 are using the service on regular basis Little do they know The service opens governments a back door for spying on iOS http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/429090.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/429090.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-02-14 13:13:50 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Major security breaches occur in quick succession one after another Is it a chain reaction How do we stop it January 2012 Zappos hacked, 24 million accounts accessed June 2012 65 Million encrypted LinkedIn passwords leaked online July 2012 420,000 Formspring passwords compromised in security breach July 2012 Yahoo Mail hacked August 2012 Dropbox hacked, http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/427738.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/427738.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-02-07 15:27:13 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - A few days ago, we received the following communication from an obsessed password researcher and our long-standing friend quoted with his permission There are reports in some of the largest newspapers here in Norway of teenagers or young male adults hacking Apple accounts of teenage girls through the lost password function by correctly answering the reset questions http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/426328.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/426328.shtml Secuobs.com : 2013-02-05 13:40:55 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - We have just updated Advanced Office Password Recovery and Distributed Password Recovery with NVIDIA Tesla K20 support, enabling world s fastest password recovery with NVIDIA s latest supercomputing platform Elcomsoft Advanced Office Password Recovery removes document restrictions and recovers passwords protecting Microsoft Office documents, while Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery can quickly break a wide range of passwords http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/425814.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/425814.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-12-20 08:43:22 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - BitLocker, PGP and TrueCrypt set industry standard in the area of whole-disk and partition encryption All three tools provide strong, reliable protection, and offer a perfect implementation of strong crypto Normally, information stored in any of these containers is impossible to retrieve without knowing the original plain-text password protecting the encrypted volume The very nature http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/418017.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/418017.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-12-17 09:48:45 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Dear friends, we are happy to suggest you our special seasonal daily offers till New Year s Eve 2013 In our festive calendar every following day you will be offered a very special New Year discount for one of our numerous products Hurry, there is a new offer every new day Every offer is valid during one day only http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/417323.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/417323.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-10-02 10:18:55 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - That was one awesome passphrase Elcomsoft has announced that certain versions of fingerprint software named Protector Suite made by UPEK now part of Authentec stores your Windows password in a scrambled format in registry This allows an attacker through different entry points to get easy access to a users Windows password I have no http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/402972.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/402972.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-09-26 19:16:33 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - ElcomSoft has recently updated two products recovering Microsoft Office passwords with Office 2013 support Elcomsoft Advanced Office Password Recovery and Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery received the ability to recover plain-text passwords used to encrypt documents in Microsoft Office 2013 format Initially, we are releasing a CPU-only implementation, with support for additional hardware accelerators such as http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/401926.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/401926.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-08-28 15:28:16 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Most laptops today ship with a fingerprint reader Most likely, you have a laptop with one Until very recently, most major manufacturers such as Acer, ASUS, Dell, Gateway, Lenovo, MSI, NEC, Samsung, SONY, Toshiba, and many others were using fingerprint readers manufactured by a single company UPEK Preface ElcomSoft discovered a major flaw with UPEK http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/396224.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/396224.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-07-17 09:20:39 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Back in 2008, ElcomSoft started using consumer-grade video cards to accelerate password recovery The abilities of today s GPU s to perform massively parallel computations helped us greatly increase the speed of recovering passwords Users of GPU-accelerated ElcomSoft password recovery tools were able to see the result 10 to 200 times depending on system configuration sooner than http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/387713.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/387713.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-06-14 13:45:13 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - We updated Advanced PDF Password Recovery to add Acrobat X support, recovering the original password and instantly removing various access restrictions in PDF documents produced by Adobe Acrobat X Removing PDF Access Restrictions Many PDF documents come with various access restrictions that disable certain features such as the ability to print documents, copy selected text http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/381547.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/381547.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-06-08 18:13:34 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Few days ago we have updated our iOS Forensic Toolkit to version 115 which includes some bugfixes and improvements and, most notably, supports passcode recovery on the new iPad also known as iPad 3 There are no significant changes from the practical point of view ie the process of passcode recovery is still exactly the http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/380423.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/380423.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-05-29 18:29:17 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - It s been almost two weeks since we have released updated version of Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker that is capable of downloading backups from the iCloud and we have seen very diverse feedback ever since Reading through some articles or forum threads it became quite evident that many just do not understand what we have actually http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/378288.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/378288.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-05-16 12:47:24 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Let s play a game Rules are simple just try to catch as much apples as you can into your police cap Good catchers will get 25pourcents discount for the new version of Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker Your challenge is just 100 apples, so let s play http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/375811.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/375811.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-05-15 10:05:11 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker and Elcomsoft iOS Forensic Toolkit have been around for a while, acquiring user information from physical iPhone iPad devices or recovering data from user-created offline backups Both tools required the investigator to have access to the device itself, or at least accessing a PC with which the iOS device was synced http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/375549.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/375549.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-04-05 13:59:42 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - When it comes to adding new features to our products we try to focus on our customers needs and it is my pleasure today to announce a preview or beta version of our Phone Password Breaker tool with new features requested or inspired by our valued customers users Here s the wrap-up of new features Ability http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/368239.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/368239.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-04-01 08:33:27 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Switching iPhones into a DFU Device Firmware Update mode is a hassle Power off, press that and hold those that many seconds, release this but continue holding that until hopefully something happens on the phone Many iPhone users have major troubles switching their iPhones into DFU mode Luckily for them, they don t have to do http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/367420.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/367420.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-03-16 18:01:46 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - We ve analyzed 17 popular password management apps available for Apple iOS and BlackBerry platforms, including free and commercially available tools, and discovered that no single password keeper app provides a claimed level of protection None of the password keepers except one are utilizing iOS or BlackBerry existing security model, relying on their own implementation of http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/364104.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/364104.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-03-12 14:23:12 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Today, we released an updated version of iOS Forensic Toolkit It s not as much of an update to make big news shout, but the number of improvements here and there warrants a blog post, and is definitely worth upgrading to if you re dealing with multiple iPhones on a daily basis The newly updated Elcomsoft iOS http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/362893.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/362893.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-03-08 10:00:28 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Attacking Wi-Fi passwords is near hopeless if a wireless hotspot is properly secured Today s wireless security algorithms such as WPA are using cryptographically sound encryption with long passwords The standard enforces the use of passwords that are at least 8 characters long Encryption used to protect wireless communications is tough and very slow to break http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/362164.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/362164.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-03-08 09:16:10 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - ElcomSoft has recently announced the switch to OpenCL, an open cross-platform architecture offering universal, future-proof accessibility to a wide range of acceleration hardware We re actively using GPU acceleration for breaking passwords faster No issues with NVIDIA hardware, but working with AMD devices has always been a trouble So we jumped in, embedding OpenCL support into http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/362158.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/362158.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-02-22 09:48:35 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - We runned yet another Password Usage Bahaviour survey on our Web site and gthered statistically significant data, reflected in the following charts And the main conclusion was that most people working with sensitive information want stricter security policies but rarely bother changing default passwords Less than 50pourcents of all respondents come from Computer Law, Educational, http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/359217.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/359217.shtml Secuobs.com : 2012-02-09 08:36:03 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Apple iWork, an inexpensive office productivity suite for the Mac and iOS platforms, has been around since 2005 and 2011 respectively The iWork suite consists of three apps Numbers, Pages, and Keynotes, and gained quite some popularity among Apple followers Yet, for all this time, no one came out with a feasible password recovery solution http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/356862.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/356862.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-12-15 15:51:55 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Dear friends, It really takes willpower to control our excitement about the surprises we prepared for you these pre-holiday days We arranged three ultra-appealing bundles and we can t hide them any loger, so here they are 1 EPPB EBBE take two at the price of one 2 EPPB EBBE EIFT get EBBE http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/347386.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/347386.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-11-01 08:19:56 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - iOS 5 Support When developing the iOS 5 compatible version of iOS Forensic Toolkit, we found the freshened encryption to be only tweaked up a bit, with the exception of keychain encryption The encryption algorithm protecting keychain items such as Web site and email passwords has been changed completely In addition, escrow keybag now becomes http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/337968.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/337968.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-09-29 09:23:17 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Less than a month ago, we updated our Elcomsoft Phone Password Recovery tool with the ability to recover master passwords for BlackBerry Password Keeper and BlackBerry Wallet I have blogged about that and promised the next big thing for BlackBerry forensics to be coming soon The day arrived Today we are releasing new version of Elcomsoft Phone Password Recovery, this time adding the ability to recover security passwords protecting BlackBerry handsets Yes, that is the very password used to lock and unlock the device And yes, no one has done that before well, at least not publicly http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/331686.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/331686.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-08-30 10:28:32 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Conferences are good When attending Mobile Forensics Conference this year and demoing our iOS Forensic Toolkit , we received a lot of requests for tools aimed at BlackBerry forensics Sorry guys, we can t offer the solution for physical acquisition of BlackBerries yet , but there is something new we can offer right now RIM BlackBerry smartphones have http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/325981.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/325981.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-08-22 16:17:54 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Yet again, we are back from a couple of conferences organized specially for heavy computer users like us We are particularly happy that our company was again warmly welcomed by the overseas hacking community thank you for accepting and visiting our talk and that FBI didn t bother us too much during our stay, http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/324438.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/324438.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-08-15 17:31:02 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - SANS Information Security Reading Room has recently publicized a whitepaper about iOS security where they mentioned our software Elcomsoft iOS Forensic Toolkit in a section about encryption Kiel Thomas, the author of the whitepaper, explained one more time the main principles of iOS 4 encryption, which became stronger in comparison with iOS 3x http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/323127.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/323127.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-07-25 09:29:58 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - You might have heard about our new product iOS Forensic Toolkit In fact, if you are involved in mobile phone and smartphone forensics, you almost certainly have In case our previous announcements haven t reached you, iOS Forensic Toolkit is a set of tools designed to perform physical acquisition of iPhone iPad iPod Touch devices and decrypt the resulting images This decryption capability is unique and allows one to obtain a fully usable image of the device s file system with the contents of each and every file decrypted and available for analysis And the fact is, with today s update, iOS Forensic Toolkit is much more than just that http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/319010.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/319010.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-06-28 15:58:23 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - ElcomSoft had a great time overseas in the US, first at Techno Security Conference in Myrtle Beach, SC and later at AMD Fusion Developer Summit in Bellevue, WA So it happened to be quite a long visit to the US full of preparations, talks, meetings, new acquaintances, parties and positive emotions sun and ocean did their work http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/313991.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/313991.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-06-02 16:41:26 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - There has already been much said about enhanced federal activity in social networks including but not limited to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Flickr etc in order to gather suspects information and use it as evidence in investigation However, far not everybody can understand neither do three-letter agencies I suppose how they can represent such info in http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/308748.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/308748.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-05-24 07:38:33 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - ElcomSoft researchers were able to decrypt iPhone s encrypted file system images made under iOS 4 While at first this may sound as a minor achievement, ElcomSoft is in fact the world s first company to do this It s also worth noting that we will be releasing the product implementing this functionality for the exclusive use of http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/306722.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/306722.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-05-24 07:38:33 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - In our previous blog post we have described how we broke the encryption in iOS devices One important thing was left out of that article for the sake of readability, and that is how we actually acquire the image of the file system of the device Indeed, in order to decrypt the file system, we http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/306721.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/306721.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-05-20 15:40:57 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Despite the fact that iPhone and Android keep on biting off greater parts of smartphone market, BlackBerry fans are still there, in spite of its various peculiarities I won t compare multi-touch displays, HD cameras, smart sensors, applications or anything like that I d rather talk about BlackBerry Desktop Software Yes, it can create backups, restore information http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/306125.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/306125.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-04-28 07:22:37 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - ElcomSoft Co Ltd researched Nikon s Image Authentication System, a secure suite validating if an image has been altered since capture, and discovered a major flaw The flaw allows anyone producing forged pictures that will successfully pass validation with Nikon s Image Authentication Software The weakness lies in the manner the secure image signing key is being http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/301310.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/301310.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-04-06 15:11:54 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - So we are back again from EuroForensics Conference which took place in Istanbul a week ago, and it feels everything went fantastic All preparations were quick and painless our special regards to Kaukab Jamal ZUBERI, Bilal YILMAZ, Meryem Parlak, Canan Tas and the whole team of Forensic People , the event went smoothly with a marked http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/296597.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/296597.shtml Secuobs.com : 2011-04-01 16:38:52 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Great news, ElcomSoft starts Elcomsoft Password Store, an online service to supply customers with guaranteed secure passwords The new Password Store provides customers a variety of selections, and complies with all industrial and government requirements regarding the length and complexity of passwords being sold As a value-added service, the company offers near-instant recovery of all http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/295694.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/295694.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-12-24 22:55:38 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - If you have read our recent Cracking BlackBerry Backup Passwords article, you should be familiar with encryption implemented in BlackBerry Desktop Software Just reminding In short, standard key-derivation function, PBKDF2, is used in a very strange way, to say the least Where Apple has used 2 000 iterations in iOS 3x, and 10 000 iterations in iOS http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/274135.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/274135.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-12-09 14:05:33 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Most modern CPUs are multi-core it is not easy to find even a laptop with less than two cores these days And for desktops, 4 cores are usual now Password recovery is one of most CPU-intensive tasks, and it fits best into multi-processor architecture Every CPU or CPU core get its own portion of http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/270521.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/270521.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-11-30 13:46:16 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - A true security system cannot be so fragile Canon Original Data Security broken Now if your partner gets a compromising anonymous image where you are enjoying yourself with nice blond with blue eyes or charming young man, don t panic and don t get upset, you can easily prove it is just a fake even if it s http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/268271.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/268271.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-11-11 17:36:11 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - What is a Web browser for you It s virtually a whole world, all together web sites, blogging, photo and video sharing, social networks, instant messaging, shopping did I forget anything Oh yes, logins and passwords Set an account here, sign in there, register here and sing up there everywhere you need logins and passwords http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/264217.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/264217.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-11-02 14:31:53 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Although this new book is on sale from January this year, we are happy to officially say our words of gratitude to Kevin Beaver and advise it to you In his book Kevin insists that the best way to really understand how to protect your systems and assess their security is to think from a http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/261791.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/261791.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-09-30 08:31:44 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - BlackBerry takes the largest share of the smartphone market in North America reaching almost 40pourcents, and about 20pourcents worldwide the total subscriber base is more than 50 millions BlackBerry users So we definitely had to release the tool to get access to protected data stored on BlackBerries, and now it is there Apple iPhone is http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/253030.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/253030.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-09-17 15:46:21 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - XKCD posted quite nice comics with a reallife problem behind them It is very likely that some Web-services do as described, either sell such info to third parties or use it for evil purposes Our recommendation is if you cannot trust some of the websites, choose another unique password for them It would be even http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/248877.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/248877.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-09-17 00:08:28 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Today we have released Elcomsoft iPhone Password Breaker 120 which introduces two new features and fixes few minor issues Keychain Explorer This feature allows to view contents of keychain included with encrypted device backup Mac users are probably familiar with concept of keychain it is a centralized, system-wide storage where application can store information http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/246179.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/246179.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-09-17 00:08:28 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - I ve had plans to create some kind of performance measurement app for iPhone iPod iPad for quite a bit time of already, and after reading recent reports that iOS 4 is very slow on iPhone 3G I thought that time had finally come So I ve quickly coded an app which computed performance in MD5 hash computations per second, http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/246178.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/246178.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-09-17 00:08:28 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Finally, we ve got our first iPhone 4 in office And what was the first thing we did with it Yes, test its performance to complete table in my previous post This brand-new iPhone 4 is capable of doing 14 millions MD5 iterations per second, about 35pourcents more than iPhone 3GS I haven t found any information http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/246177.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/246177.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-07-30 15:34:27 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Today we congratulate all system administrators and those substituting them when these are busy with the most important problem of someone else's We wish you great health and nerve in your multi-tasking job Thank you Our PUB survey goes on, we'll be very much obliged for your ticks http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/245394.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/245394.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-07-15 15:03:59 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - According to the preliminary results of our latest questionnaire ElcomSoft Customer Reference program Questionnaire the majority of people forget their passwords when returned from holidays, thus being blocked out from the precious information they have on the PC I bet that lots of people found themselves or those around in a similar situation at least http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/240822.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/240822.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-07-01 10:39:01 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - For the third time we've been invited to Beijing, China to participate in CCFC China Computer Forensic Conference , to talk about password recovery and to conduct workshop on password recovery tools Like two previous times, this time CCFC also was great Lots of visitors, very nice audience and lots of smart questions On the first http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/236797.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/236797.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-06-21 16:39:43 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - It s been two weeks since Steve Jobs has announced release of new iPhone 4 and iOS 4 operating system during his keynote on WWDC 2010 New iPhone will begin shipping on Thursday, 24th of June, and new iOS will become available for download today, just few hours are left iOS 4 comes packed with a lot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/233473.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/233473.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-06-15 14:57:59 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - 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Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Last week we have released our new product, EPPB, out of beta We have fixed some bugs, polished GPU acceleration support, added support for Tableau TACC1441 hardware accelerator, making this program the world's first program capable of utilizing computing power of GPUs both from ATI and NVIDIA as well as dedicated hardware accelerators aimed primarily http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/219851.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/219851.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-05-06 13:11:46 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - It was the third time we participated in Infosecurity Europe The whole affair was in jeopardy due to volcanic ash paralyzing all major European airports but we did it And everything went smoothly as planned We presented several latest developments at Infosecurity First, two of our products, Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor and Elcomsoft iPhone Password http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/219432.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/219432.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-04-02 13:04:29 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Hurrying to inform you about our adventures in one of the most beautiful cities of Euro-Asian region, Istanbul This March we were lucky to have a chance of participating in a big forensics and security focused international event in Turkey, namely EuroForensics 2010, thanks to our Turkish partners Forensic People, organizers hosts of the http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/208398.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/208398.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-03-12 16:57:15 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - There had been a long standing competition between NVIDIA and ATI which has lasted for years now And there is no winner so far just like with Windows vs Linux or PC vs Mac debate there are ones who prefer the former and others who prefer the latter Kind of religious issue From developer's point http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/201117.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/201117.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-02-19 13:03:00 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - We are glad to announce that we have a new contributor to our blog and we would like to introduce him to you Per Thorsheim is a security professional living and working in Bergen, Norway He is currently certified CISA and CISM from isacaorg, and CISSP-ISSAP from isc2org You can follow him on http twittercom thorsheim and http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/193518.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/193518.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-02-19 13:03:00 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Your organization probably has a written password policy Accordingly you also have different technical implementations of that policy across your various systems Most of the implementations does not match the exact requirements or guidelines given in the written policy, because they cannot be technically implemented Requirements that cannot be implemented can be anything from minimum maximum length http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/193517.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/193517.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-02-19 10:54:42 - 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Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Today we are pleased to unveil the first public beta of our new product, Elcomsoft iPhone Password Breaker, a tool designed to address password recovery of password-protected iPhone and iPod Touch backups made with iTunes In case you do not know, iTunes routinely makes backups of iPhones and iPods being synced to it Such backups contain http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/188524.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/188524.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-01-29 16:28:08 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - ElcomSoft always have yet another pair of eyes for your privacy http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/186637.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/186637.shtml Secuobs.com : 2010-01-22 13:55:43 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - About a month ago, a SQL Injection flaw was found in the database of RockYoucom, a website dealing with social networking applications The Tech Herald reports that 326 million passwords were exposed and posted online due to the flaw The complete examination of the passwords from the list showed that the passwords in question are http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/184422.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/184422.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-17 16:52:08 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - So, they are back from CCFC Beijing where Vladimir, Andrew, and Dmitry made their speeches and listened to those given by other reps Here is a follow-up of the conference with nice shots kindly taken by a keen shooter Dmitry Sklyarov But first of all, we d like to thank Sprite Guo for taking care of http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/173402.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/173402.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-12-08 18:26:22 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - It s a well-know fact that WPA-PSK networks are vulnerable to dictionary attacks, though one cannot but admit that running a respectable-sized dictionary over a WPA network handshake can take days or weeks A low-cost service for penetration testers that checks the security of wireless networks by running passwords against a 135-million-word dictionary has been recently unveiled http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169728.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/169728.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-11-03 17:13:33 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - In the period from 27 to 30 October 2009 in Moscow the XIII International exhibition of security facilities of the State INTERPOLITEX 2009 took place Our team was lucky to participate in this great event organized by the Government of Russia It was the first time that we had the opportunity to take part in http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/156724.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/156724.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-10-14 15:51:32 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - IT-SA-Expo goes on very well and our presentation at the Technical Forum Forum Blau was a success thanks to Rene Mathes who gave out the presentation and 8com GmbH The talk was about how one speeds up the hash recovery process with the parallelizing CUDA technology If you happen to be in Nuremberg, Germany, http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/150395.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/150395.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-10-08 21:23:09 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - One of our customers sent me two Excel XLA add-ins When I tried to open that file in the VBA Editor the Project is locked message appeared Add-in has been already unlocked by our VBA password recovery tool According to Microsoft article this message may appear in two cases when the macro is protected http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/148698.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/148698.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-10-06 15:50:30 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Our it-friends from Ukraine KARPOLAN and Dmitry highly optimized our developing processes and helped us finalize long-awaited Password Recovery KIT We won t go deep into technical details, just have a look at rough visualization http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/147829.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/147829.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-09-21 17:40:35 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Back from summer holidays Suntanned, full of energy, had a good time And worried about your bank account balance Don t strain your nerves unnecessarily, rather keep your business flourishing We say that your money will return like a homing pigeon back to you Keep your windows wide open ElcomSoft prepared yet another pleasant and valuable http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/142801.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/142801.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-09-10 13:57:06 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Tom s Hardware is a really good source we can definitely trust, so if you need more details on Radeon HD 5000-series cards specifications and prices that are coming soon, just read Best Graphics Cards For The Money September 09 http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/139559.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/139559.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-09-09 14:30:52 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Looking for new password cracking hardware to take advantage of GPU acceleration Wait just a little bit more new ATI and NVIDIA cards with DirectX 11 will be available soon ATI is going to release Radeon HD 5000 cards 5850, 5870, 5870 X2 in October well, hopefully The top one HD 5870X2 single-PCB, dual-GPU will retail http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/139112.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/139112.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-08-11 10:54:42 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Just about two weeks ago, ATI has introduced the fastest GPU yet FirePro V8750 800 shader engines, 1152 GB s memory bandwidth, 2 GB frame buffer memory GDDR5 , two DisplayPort outputs, one DVI output Thinking about purchasing it The cost is as high as 1,800 More details at Tom s Hardware Want to compare ATI with NVIDIA Then read ATI http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/129799.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/129799.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-08-05 03:23:33 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Every time when you open a document in Advanced Office Password Recovery it performs the preliminary attack in case when the file open password is set This attack tries all passwords that you recovered in past which are stored in password cache , dictionary attack and finally the brute-force attack is running The brute-force attack consists of http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/127981.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/127981.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-07-31 19:48:38 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - Guys, it is SysAdminDay today We wish you to have thankful colleagues that will respect your time and show gratitude each time you print a test page Let accountants brew you hot tea We wish you tolerance each time users forget their passwords passwords can always be recovered with our tools Keep your networks safe and http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/126975.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/126975.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-07-28 15:06:58 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - We are waiting for release of new Microsoft office suite Office 2010 Right now Microsoft has only technical preview of new Office and this preview has been leaked from Microsoft and everyone can download it from torrents We got this copy of Office 2010 and analysed its new password protection Starting from Office 2007 Microsoft http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/125730.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/125730.shtml Secuobs.com : 2009-07-22 14:26:56 - Advanced Password Cracking Insight - As the second summer month is coming to an end, it s time to sum up our news and updates that you might have missed because of vacation in some tropical heaven Last two weeks brought us really hot days, not only because of the temperature in Moscow City but also due to hard work on http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/123475.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/123475.shtml