- nVidia GeForce GTX 480 & GTX 480 SLI Review. Bright Side Of News 26/03/2010
«Starting with today's review, we're introducing ElcomSoft as a part of our test suite. ElcomSoft is a company that produces mission critical analysis and forensics software. With clients such as Interpol and numerous government agencies around the globe, the company has been on a forefront of GPGPU since day one. We used two of their applications: iPhone Password Breaker and Wireless Security Auditor and pitched the GeForce GTX 480 versus the ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB. The results will probably shock you.» Read more
- ATI Graphic cards turbo charge password recovery. The Register 17/03/2010
«Russian password cracking firm ElcomSoft is using the latest graphics cards from ATI to double the speed of its iPhone password breaker and wireless security auditor products.» Read more
- ATI Radeon HD 5970 is the king of iPhone, Wi-Fi password cracking. Bright Side Of News 16/03/2010
«In the world of GPGPU i.e. GPU Computing, there aren't many companies that really push the term of usability and efficiency. Luckily, Russian ElcomSoft is one of those companies. We already wrote about the company and their very interesting password-cracking products.» Read more
- Risk Awareness Enables Improved Prevention of Internet Based Attacks. Pro Security Zone 18/02/2010
«In the age of information technologies, each employee – not only IT department staff – should be familiar with how to keep their valuable data safe and secure. To fulfill this task in a proper way one should try to halt hidden security threats, with those lying on the surface, in order to avoid grave consequences and damage for the whole company. Employees’ information security literacy is a job of both IT guys and HR professionals. That is the reason we listed the most wide-spread hidden security threats for you to be aware of.» Read more
- iPhone Password Breaker Hacks Its Way Into Any iPhone. iPhone Download Blog 17/02/2010
«There is a new tool out called iPhone Password Breaker that can get access to any password-protected backups for all iPhones and iPod Touch.
Supposedly used for forensic investigations, I can see many ways how iPhone Password Breaker could be used by jealous husbands, or angry wives, for example…
Note that this tool will not help you bypass the password protection of an iPhone or iPod Touch. It will bypass the password protection of a backup.» Read more
- Hack iPhone Backups Using iPhone Passcode Breaker. The iPhone Guru 17/02/2010
«If you make a backup of an iPhone with a passcode enabled on it, the backup is protected by the same passcode. Elcomsoft has a new utility out that will recover that password from the encrypted backup itself and use that to open the backup file. Makes you feel awesome about how secure your iPhone backups are doesn’t it?.» Read more
- It’s Better To Prevent Than To Cure. Katonda 11/02/2010
«Last week a company that rents an office floor next to ours fell prey to a malicious attack. The employees of the company use instant messengers to communicate with their existing and potential customers.
Although it is a common knowledge that the improper use of instant messengers can pose a great risk to an enterprise, people still click on the links they receive.» Read more
- Kit cracks iPhone backup passwords. The Register 04/02/2010
«The Elcomsoft iPhone Password Breaker, which was released for free into beta, recovers passwords for iPhones and iPod Touches by trying thousands of phrases per second. It performs wordlist-based attacks only, but the final version will allow dictionary attacks that can be customized.» Read more
- Encrypting your iPhone backups? Time to choose a better password. MobileCrunch 04/02/2010
«The iPhone Password Breaker application is dictionary-based, meaning it gains access by cycling through a massive dictionary of words and common passwords (like the aforementioned “cat”, “sex”, and “tetherball”) and their variations (such as “c4t”, “s3x”, and “t3th3rb4ll”) until it finds the right one.» Read more
- Wi-Fi hacking: don't panic yet. PC Pro 11/01/2010
«Not that WPA2 itself is bullet-proof: far from it if the Russians are to be believed. ElcomSoft, a member of the Russian Cryptology Association, has developed a product that can combine readily available and relatively cheap graphics cards from ATI and Nvidia to accelerate the “recovery” of WPA2 encryption passwords.» Read more
- Password recovery performance. Security Nirvana 08/12/2009
«Ok, here's just a quick posting to show off performance numbers when using a single cpu or a Nvidia GTX295 graphics card to recover passwords that has been stored using various hashing functions (recovery here is commonly referred to as "password cracking"). I requested this information from my contact Andrey Belenko at Elcomsoft, based on their product "EDPR - Elcomsoft Distribued Password Recovery", which i am the happy owner of for a 20-client license. (A big "thank you" to Andrey for providing the statistics!). All this as part of my ongoing "research" into passwords.» Read more
- Cracking keys on the cheap in the cloud. The H Security 03/11/2009
«They ran a distributed brute force attack on the file using Amazon's EC2 web service. The software (EDPR) for the attack came from Russian company ElcomSoft. On a dual Core PC running Windows 7, determining the password by trial and error would have taken 2,100 days. 10 virtual computers running EDPR simultaneously, reduced this to just 122 days. One hour of EC2 processing time in this case costs $0.30 per instance, meaning that it cost just under $9,000 to crack the key. Since, according to Electric Alchemy, EDPR scales in a more or less linear fashion, using 100 instances, the same result could be achieved for the same price in just 12 days.» Read more
- Cracking Passwords in the Cloud: Breaking PGP on EC2 with EDPR. Electric Alchemy 30/10/2009
«When faced with the task of brute forcing PGP passphrases, we immediately thought of Elcomsoft. We had witnessed the drama at Infosec 2009 in London when PGP had banners removed from Elcomsoft's booth, and that made a lasting impression. We downloaded the trial version of Elcomsoft's Distributed Password Recovery software, but found that unfortunately it was not able to properly parse the old PGP ZIP files.» Read more
- Balancing Windows security with reasonable password policies. SearchWindowsServer.com 07/10/2009
«At the end of the day, the password decryption capabilities of tools such as Ophcrack and Elcomsoft's Proactive System Password Recovery can render Windows passwords useless. But that's not the point. One still shouldn't be able to use a good vulnerability scanner such as QualysGuard or Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner to crack Windows passwords. If a security consultant or auditor can do it, then a malicious insider or external attacker can do it as well. It's just a matter of time.» Read more
- A closer look at Elcomsoft Advanced Office Password Breaker 3 Enterprise Edition. Help Net Security 14/08/2009
«Advanced Office Password Breaker is a handy tool that will make your life easier. It does not recover the original passwords, it just removes them. It's fast and effective, and a real asset in offices. It supports MS Office Word and Excel 97 and 2000 and supports Office 97/2000 compatible documents saved with MS Office XP and 2003.» Read more
- Run encryption the right way to ensure wireless network security. SearchCompliance.com 08/04/2009
«As long as you have some WPA or WPA2 data capture files -- something that can be gleaned using a wireless network sniffer such as Airodump-ng (part of the Aircrack-ng suite), CommView for WiFi or AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer -- EWSA can harness the processing power of certain Nvidia Corp. and ATI video cards and perform dictionary cracks against WPA and WPA2 pre-shared keys in a fraction of the time it would normally take a computer's standard CPU by itself. EWSA can also be used to dump the pre-shared key hashes from the Windows registry (yet another reason to encrypt your laptop hard drives!).» Read more
- Are passwords safe? ServerManagement 11/02/2009
«Passwords have traditionally been considered the easiest and most popular method of authentication. It is one of the most convenient methods for users as it does not require special skills or additional equipment, and it is secure - or is it? Password authentication is as simple as ABC. Inventing and memorizing a strong password (or several passwords) is all what it takes, isn't it?» Read more
- GPUs Used to Successfully Crack Wi-Fi Passwords. HotHardware 15/01/2009
«Because of the computational power of today's GPUs, GPUs are starting to be harnessed more and more to help out CPUs with some hardcore number crunching. That is the concept behind Nvidia's CUDA, ATI's Stream, and Apple's OpenCL frameworks. There aren't many apps available yet that take advantage of these relatively new technologies, but the ranks are slowly growing. The latest GPU-assisted app to come available is one designed for IT managers to make sure their wireless networks are secure--and inevitably for hackers to try to break into wireless networks.» Read more
- GPU-based WPA/WPA2 crack struggles with good passwords. Ars Technica 01/12/2008
«Elcomsoft claimed its Password Recovery product, which can also be used in a distributed fashion across a network for faster cracks, could speed up WPA/WPA2 passphrase guessing by a factor of 100. But what did that mean in practical terms? How long a passphrase and how fast to crack it?» Read more
- Are VPNs the best way to secure wireless LANs? SearchSecurity 23/10/2008
«ElcomSoft's application of GPU processing to wireless password cracking poses a problem for any users of WiFi corporate networks - so much so that Global Secure Systems has advised companies to either abandon wireless altogether, or to deploy VPNs for all wireless connections, even internally.» Read more
- Don't have security nightmares. BBC News 21/10/2008
«...he latest version of a password recovery tool from Elcomsoft takes advantage of the astonishing processing power of the latest range of Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs) to crack the WPA and WPA2 wireless security protocols in a matter of hours or even minutes, rendering most commercial wireless networks open to attack.» Read more
- Elcomsoft uses NVIDIA GPUs to crack WPA2. TMCnet 17/10/2008
«The new-generation Tesla S1070 Computing System helps in recovering variety of system and document passwords. It is 100 times faster in password recovery than by using modern dual or quad-core CPUs. According to the Elcomsoft, its Distributed Password Recovery is a high-end solution for forensic and government agencies, data recovery and password recovery services and corporate users with multiple networked workstations connected over a LAN or the Internet.» Read more
- ElcomSoft Breaks Wi-Fi Encryption Faster with GPU Acceleration. NordicHardware 14/10/2008
«About a year ago we told you about how Russian software developer Elcomsoft had patented a new technology for cracking password using graphics cards. It was working on an application that took advantage of the powerful NVIDIA GPU for "reclaiming lost passwords" encrypted by WPA and WPA2 encryptions. In the end, any users with a NVIDIA graphics cards and Elcomsoft software could crack WiFi passwords with ease. With two GeForce 280 GTX graphics cards the otherwise ttime consuming process was 100 times faster, than a regular processor.» Read more
- Company puts NVIDA GPUs to work cracking wireless security. Ars Technica 13/10/2008
«There's a certain short-term window of opportunity here for the quick-minded and well-padded hacker, but long term, software like Elcomsoft's could actually lead to the creation of better encryption standards. Cryptologists working on future standards (AES2, or what have you) will also be able to test those standards more quickly, and for far less money. It's safe to assume that NVIDIA will have introduced faster GPUs by this time, giving future developers an even greater advantage compared to what researchers have previously worked with. For the moment, Elcomsoft's software scales to "just" 64 CPU cores with four GPUs per node for a total of 256 GPUs, but this number will undoubtedly ramp as well. Short-term, this is less-than-great news for the security industry. Long-term, it might improve cryptology standards across the board.» Read more
- Elcomsoft uses NVIDIA GPUs to crack WPA2. Engadget 13/10/2008
«Elcomsoft has been using NVIDIA's CUDA GPU computing architecture to accelerate its Distributed Password Recovery tool for a while now, but it looks like the latest version of the cracking utility takes it to the next level -- it can break a WPA2 password using two GeForce GTX 280-based boards 100 times faster than with just a CPU.» Read more
- ElcomSoft uses NVIDIA GPUs to speed up WPA/WPA2 brute-force attack. ZDNet 12/10/2008
«Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery does more than WiFi passwords - you also get the ability to crack a number of documents and files such as Microsoft Office, PGP, ZIP, PDF, OpenDocument, and a number of others.» Read more
- WiFi is no longer a viable secure connection. SC Magazine 10/10/2008
«WiFi is no longer secure enough to protect wireless data. Global Secure Systems has said that a Russian's firm's use of the latest NVidia graphics cards to accelerate WiFi Ұassword recovery' times by up to an astonishing 10,000 per cent proves that WiFi's WPA and WPA2 encryption systems are no longer enough to protect wireless data.» Read more
- Turbo-charged wireless hacks threaten networks. The Register 10/10/2008
«The raw horsepower of graphics chips, normally used as 3D graphic accelerators by gamers, can also be applied for a variety of other number-crunching password-breaking uses beyond uncovering WiFi passwords. Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery can also be used to recover Windows startup passwords, crack MD5 hashes, and unlock password-protected documents created by Microsoft Office or PDF files created by Adobe Acrobat, according to ElcomSoft.» Read more
- Commercial WPA/WPA2 Cracking Software Accelerated by GPUs. WiFi Net News 09/10/2008
«The Russian firm offers what it delicately terms password recovery software. They've now paired their WPA/WPA2 key crackin with the power of graphic processing units (GPUs), the brains that drive video cards, and which can carry out certain kinds of calculations vastly faster than CPUs, a computer's main processor.» Read more
- Cracking billions of passwords a minute with NVIDIA cards. The Tech Herald 07/10/2008
«Password auditing and recovery tools are fast and inexpensive, thus having one of the many password recovery tools available online in the IT department is just smart. Yet, while there are many recovery tools available, how many of them can clock a smooth billion passwords a second?» Read more
- Wi-Fi Encryption Broken by ElcomSoft. PCDistrict 10/09/2008
«The recovery of WPA and WPA2 encryption used in the Wi-Fi protocol has been accelerated by ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. by employing the new-generation NVIDIA video cards. ElcomSoft patent-pending GPU acceleration technology implemented in Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery allows using laptop, desktop or server computers equipped with supported NVIDIA video cards to break Wi-Fi encryption up to 100 times faster than by using CPU only.» Read more
- The Art of Recovering Passwords. Techans 08/09/2008
«We are unaware of any free utility which can recover passwords from Microsoft Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Access files. But if you don't mind paying, then Elcomsoft'sAdvanced Office Password Recovery will do the job for you.» Read more
- ElcomSoft Recovers Lost Passwords, Audits Security. Processor.com 29/08/2008
«One indication of the challenges of heightened computer security, according to ElcomSoft, is that nearly half of support calls to IT are related to lost or forgotten passwords, with each incident costing the company an average of $30 to $50 to resolve.» Read more
- 23 Powerful Utilities. PC Magazine 14/05/2008
«Locking your car to keep the street punks from stealing it is smart. But when you lock the keys inside it, that's a whole different security problem. In the same way, Windows handily encrypts private files, but many common events can leave you locked out as well. If you've just plain forgotten the password, you're screwed. Had you previously backed up your encryption credentials, you could regain access to your files, but few users have the foresight and technical skill to do this. Don't worry: ElcomSoft's Advanced Encrypting File System Data Recovery (AEFSDR) can get you out of this jam.» Read more
- Geforce cracks Windows passwords. vnunet.com 26/10/2007
«Security firms warned today that laptop hard disks should be encrypted as a matter of urgency following the release of a utility that uses graphics cards to crack Windows passwords. An eight-character Windows password can be cracked in less than five days using version 2.0 of Moscom-based Elmscroft's Distributed Password Recovery System in conjunction with an Nvidia Geforce 8 card - something that would take months with a standard processor. The time can be reduced further by adding graphics processors (GPUs) either within the same machine, or several machines, or both.» Read more
- Password cracking, the new use for high speed GPUs. TG Daily 24/10/2007
«It may not be the most popular thing to consider, but high-end graphics cards contain a very powerful internal computing engine, called the GPU. This massively parallel device can attack a problem in parallel, rather than serial as most CPUs are required to process data. This means it can compute many hundreds of simultaneous calculations. This is actually how 3D graphics cards get their high-speed gaming abilities. Still, a new use has been found for this robust computing engine: password cracking.» Read more
- Developer deploys graphics cards to accelerate password cracks. The Register 24/10/2007
«Nvidia's GeForce 8 series of graphics chips can be used to crack Windows NT LAN Manager (NTLM) passwords 25 times more quickly than was previously possible, security software developer Elcomsoft has claimed. The Russia-based company this week announced the second major release of its Distributed Password Recovery application, a tool designed to recover forgotten or lost passwords for a wide range of application and document types, including PDP-protected ZIP files, Adobe Acrobat PDFs, Lotus Notes ID files and Microsoft Office documents.» Read more
- Interview with Vladimir Katalov, CEO of ElcomSoft. Help Net Security 07/09/2006
«Vladimir Katalov is working in ElcomSoft from the very beginning. He created the first program the password recovery software line has started from: Advanced ZIP Password Recovery. Now he coordinates the software development process inside the company and develops strategic plans for future versions.» Read more
