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Resource Management in Distributed Password Attacks
In the latest update, Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery introduced a new feature that allows managing the available computational resources. The new resource management capability allows...
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Navigating NVIDIA’s Super 40-Series GPU Update: A Guide for IT Professionals
With the launch of the Super update of 40-Series NVIDIA GPUs, the company’s product lineup has become quite complex. In the 4070 series alone, four models of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX are available: the...
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Breaking Wi-Fi Passwords with Intel Arc Graphics Cards
Intel has unveiled its latest lineup of dedicated graphics cards, driven by the powerful Intel Xe architecture. The Intel Arc series showcases impressive performance, rivaling mid-range offerings from...
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NVIDIA RTX 40 Series Graphics Cards: The Faster and More Efficient Password...
Every three years, NVIDIA releases a new architecture used in their GeForce series graphics cards. Powered by Ada Lovelace, the new generation of GPUs delivers 80% better performance in password...
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Password Recovery and Data Decryption: Getting Around and About
Access to encrypted information can be gained through various methods, including live system analysis (1 and 2), using bootable forensic tools, analysis of sleep/hibernation files, and exploiting TPM...
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Building an Efficient Password Recovery Workstation: Power Savings and Waste...
This article continues the series of publications aimed to help experts specify and build economical and power-efficient workstations for password recovery workloads. Electricity costs, long-term...
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Building an Efficient Password Recovery Workstation: NVIDIA RTX...
This article opens the series of publications aimed to help experts specify and build effective and power-efficient workstations for brute-forcing passwords. Power consumption and power efficiency are...
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checkm8 Extraction: the iPads, iPods, and TVs
The ninth beta of iOS Forensic Toolkit 8.0 for Mac introduces forensically sound, checkm8-based extraction of sixteen iPad, iPod Touch and Apple TV models. The low-level extraction solution is now...
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GPU Acceleration On The Cheap: Using Affordable Video Cards to Break...
Most password protection methods rely on multiple rounds of hash iterations to slow down brute-force attacks. Even the fastest processors choke when trying to break a reasonably strong password. Video...
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Breaking Wi-Fi Passwords with NVIDIA Ampere
The supply of NVIDIA’s latest and greatest RTX 3000 series boards remains scarce due to production shortages and increased demand from gamers and cryptocurrency miners. That didn’t stop us from giving...
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Breaking the iPhone 12: Forensic Extraction of iOS 14 Devices
iOS Forensic Toolkit 7.0 brings low-level extraction support for the latest generation of Apple devices. This includes the entire range of iPhone 12 models as well as all other devices capable of...
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Elcomsoft vs. Hashcat Part 4: Case Studies
This is the final part of the series of articles comparing Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery with Hashcat. We’ve already compared the features, the price and performance of the two tools. In this...
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Elcomsoft vs. Hashcat Part 3: Attacks, Costs, Performance and Extra Features
Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery and Hashcat support a number of different attacks ranging from brute-force all the way to scriptable, dictionary-based attacks. The costs and performance are...
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The ABC’s of Password Cracking: The True Meaning of Speed
When adding a new encryption format or comparing the performance of different password recovery tools, we routinely quote the recovery speed expressed in the number of passwords per second. But what is...
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Elcomsoft vs. Hashcat Part 2: Workflow, Distributed and Cloud Attacks
The user interface is a major advantage of Elcomsoft tools. Setting up attacks in Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery is simpler and more straightforward compared to the command-line tool. In this...
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May the [Brute] Force Be with You!
Remember the good old times when there was a lot of applications with “snake oil” encryption? You know, the kind of “peace of mind” protection that allowed recovering or removing the original plaintext...
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13 Years of GPU Acceleration
Today, we have an important date. It’s been 13 years since we invented a technique that reshaped the landscape of modern password recovery. 13 years ago, we introduced GPU acceleration in our...
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The Rise of the Virtual Machines
Criminals are among the most advanced users of modern technology. They learned how to hide information in their smartphones and how to encrypt their laptops. They communicate via secure channels. Their...
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Ruling Out the Encryption
We all have habits. Morning coffee (no sugar, just some milk), two eggs (sunny side up), reading mail wile you are not completely awaken, and a lot more. We all follow some kind of rules we have set...
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Breaking Encrypted Virtual Machines: Recovering VMWare, Parallels, and...
Virtual machines use a portable, hardware-independent environment to perform essentially the same role as an actual computer. Activities performed under the virtual umbrella leave trails mostly in the...
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