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June 21st, 2010 by Andrey Belenko

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.

Hello! Yet again, we have launched a survey on password usage behavior.

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 event.

ElcomSoft always have yet another pair of eyes for your privacy… 🙂

About a month ago, a SQL Injection flaw was found in the database of RockYou.com, a website dealing with social networking applications. The Tech Herald reports that 32.6 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 not only short as RockYou.com allows creating 5-character-passwords but also alphanumeric only.

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 all preparations and perfect managing throughout the whole conference – our BIG thank you!

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, visit our booth at Hall 6 (Stand 542).