July 10th, 2026 by Oleg Afonin
Most people meet these four tools one product page at a time, which makes them look like four separate purchases for four separate problems. On a real desktop case they are closer to four stages of a single job. Each one hands its output to the next: Elcomsoft System Recovery and Elcomsoft Quick Triage pull the raw material off the machine, Forensic Disk Decryptor turns keys into mounted volumes, and Distributed Password Recovery grinds through whatever is left. In this article we will not go through the feature lists (the product pages do that job well enough); instead we will look at when to reach for each tool, and why the order in which you use them is not fixed but decided by the situation in front of you.
March 5th, 2015 by Shafik Punja
Considerations/Thoughts
February 26th, 2015 by Olga Koksharova
Anyone considering the possibility to purchase Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery has a wonderful opportunity to explore the program together with Sethioz and get a clearer understanding of how the program works and what requires your special attention when you are using EDPR. This video assumes you are already familiar with basics of password cracking and suggests more information for your convenient work with the tool.
February 18th, 2015 by Olga Koksharova
If you care about password cracking, hardware acceleration or Wi-Fi protection this interview with our friend Sethioz is certainly for you. Being currently a freelance security tester Sethioz kindly shared his experience in cracking passwords using video cards, which in its turn derived from his gaming interest in cards. His personal experience may be very helpful to those whose concern about password cracking is not trivial.
February 1st, 2015 by Vladimir Katalov
How many passwords does an average Joe or Jane has to remember? Obviously, it’s not just one or two. Security requirements vary among online services, accounts and applications, allowing (or disallowing) certain passwords. Seven years ago, Microsoft determined in a study that an average user had 6.5 Web passwords, each of which is shared across about four different websites. They’ve also determined that, back then, each user had about 25 accounts that required passwords, and typed an average of 8 passwords per day.