Eighteen Years of GPU Acceleration
November 27th, 2025 by Oleg Afonin
Eighteen years ago, before “GPU acceleration” and “AI data center” became household terms, a small hi-tech company changed the rules of cryptography. In 2007, we unveiled a radical idea – using the untapped power of graphics processors to recover passwords, which coincided with the release of video cards capable of performing fixed-point calculations. What began as an experiment would soon redefine performance computing across nearly every field.
The New Elcomsoft iOS Forensic Toolkit
July 17th, 2013 by Vladimir Katalov
Soon after releasing the updated version of iOS Forensic Toolkit we started receiving questions about the new product. Did we really break iPhone 5? Does it truly work? Are there limitations, and what can you do about them? We decided to assemble all these questions into a small FAQ. If you’d rather read the full, more technical version of this FAQ, visit the following page instead: Elcomsoft iOS Forensic Toolkit FAQ. Those with non-technical background please read along.
REcon 2013: Breaking Apple iCloud
July 3rd, 2013 by Oleg Afonin
I’ve just returned from REcon 2013 held in Montreal, where I talked about breaking iCloud services (everyone: the slides from that presentation are available right here, and the organizers promised a video soon). I spoke about WHY breaking the iCloud, HOW we did it and WHO can use it. I can briefly stop here, and elaborate the points.
ElcomSoft at CEIC 2013: Kindle Fire HD Hunt Succeeded
June 13th, 2013 by Olga Koksharova
The CEIC 2013 conference is over. We were happy to connect with our partners and customers at our booth during the show hours. We’d like to thank everyone who stopped by, and give our special thanks to those providing valuable feedback and suggestion on our products. (To those who wanted to see our tools settled under a single roof: we’re working on it!)
Apple Two-Factor Authentication and the iCloud
May 30th, 2013 by Vladimir Katalov
Finally, two-factor authentication is not a silver bullet. There are scenarios where two-factor authentication simply is not enough. But still, it is a good idea to enable 2FA on all your accounts.
iCloud backups inside out
February 25th, 2013 by Vladimir Katalov
It’s been a while since we released the new version of Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker that allows downloading backups from iCloud (read the press release). Many customers all over the world are already using this new feature intensively, but we still get many questions about its benefits, examples of cases when it can be used and how to use it properly. We also noticed many ironic comments in different forums (mostly from users without any experience in using iOS devices and so have no idea what iCloud backups actually are, I guess), saying that there is nothing really new or interesting there, because anyone with Apple ID and password can access the data stored in iCloud backup anyway.
Yahoo!, Dropbox and Battle.net Hacked: Stopping the Chain Reaction
February 14th, 2013 by Vladimir Katalov
Major security breaches occur in quick succession one after another. Is it a chain reaction? How do we stop it?
Norwegian Teenagers Hacking iCloud Accounts
February 7th, 2013 by Olga Koksharova
A few days ago, we received the following communication from an obsessed password researcher and our long-standing friend (quoted with his permission):
