Intelligent Load Balancing: Optimizing Password Recovery Across Heterogeneous Units

November 14th, 2024 by Oleg Afonin

In the latest update of Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery (EDPR), we’ve introduced a revamped load-balancing feature. The new feature aims to enhance resource utilization on local workstations across diverse hardware configurations. This update has drastically reduced the time required to break passwords in certain hardware configurations, thanks to a refined load distribution algorithm. In this article, we’ll share some technical details on how load balancing leverages a mix of GPUs and CPU cores.

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Adobe Acrobat X Support in Advanced PDF Password Recovery

June 14th, 2012 by Olga Koksharova

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.

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New Hardware Key for iPad 3 Passcode Verification or Is It Just Masking?

June 8th, 2012 by Andrey Belenko

Few days ago we have updated our iOS Forensic Toolkit to version 1.15 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 (i.e. the process of passcode recovery is still exactly the same), but there is something new under the hood. So if you’re interested in iOS security and how stuff works, please read on.

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Explaining that new iCloud feature

May 29th, 2012 by Andrey Belenko

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 done and what are the implications. So I am taking another try to clarify things.

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Get More Apples :)

May 16th, 2012 by Olga Koksharova

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 25% discount for the new version of Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker. Your challenge is just 100 apples, so let’s play! 🙂

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New Features in EPPB

April 5th, 2012 by Andrey Belenko

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 🙂

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