There is only one way to break through PGP® encryption – GPU accelerated brute force – and that one is too many. New Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery v. 2.80.206 crunches PGP® passwords 200 times faster using graphic chips.

If you added this blog to your news feeder, then you prefer getting skilled rather than getting owned – as in Troopers’ motto.

As posted by Rosalie Marshall in her today’s article, secret F-35 military plane design materials have been stolen presumably by Chinese hackers (?):

The 40nm-wonder ATI Radeon HD 4770 is expected in May at price $99, according to engaget. It seems it’s going to outperform Nvidia 9800GT in terms of speed and price.  As for speed, VR-Zone claims that HD 4770 is not a step behind HD 4850, do you believe it? Look at the benchmarks based on computer games.   

According to The Inquirer, Nvidia GT300 promised in October. Should be a good video card for GPU-accelerated password cracking :).

Water cooling, liquid nitrogen, and dry ice  – which gets the most of your  ATI Radeon HD 4890 graphics card? Learn it  from Zac O’Vadka today’s post. 

If you have no idea what E-Discovery is, read Crossing the E-Discovery Border: IT and Legal. But if you do, I’d recommend attending this webinar anyway 🙂

No, it’s no a typo :). COFEE means Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, actually. Never heard about it? Then read Microsoft supplies Interpol with DIY forensics tool. Just don’t ask where to get it. We have not seen it either.

And now…. we have Rainbow Tables for Microsoft Excel docs with 40-bit encryption. So, it became possible to reach near-instant recovery of 97% of spreadsheets created in MS Excel 97-2003. Unfortunately, due to specificity of Excel spreadsheets format it’s unreal to get 100%-recovery, still, you can use brute force to cover the rest 3%.