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.
Have you chosen you next smartphone? Why not BlackBerry? :)
May 20th, 2011 by Olga Koksharova
Despite the fact that iPhone and Android keep on biting off greater parts of smartphone market, BlackBerry fans are still there, in spite of its various peculiarities. I won’t compare multi-touch displays, HD cameras, smart sensors, applications or anything like that. I’d rather talk about BlackBerry Desktop Software. Yes, it can create backups, restore information from backups, and synchronize with Outlook only, period. But that’s just not enough… Let’s see what you write in BB forums:
EuroForensics Conference 2011
April 6th, 2011 by Olga Koksharova
So we are back again from EuroForensics Conference which took place in Istanbul a week ago, and it feels everything went fantastic. All preparations were quick and painless (our special regards to Kaukab Jamal ZUBERI, Bilal YILMAZ, Meryem Parlak, Canan Tas and the whole team of Forensic People), the event went smoothly with a marked emphasis on the first day, when we were almost stunned by crowds of computer forensic specialists, military people in uniform, government and other security researchers (I personally have never seen so many officials at one place before).
ElcomSoft Opens a Password Store to Sell Passwords Balancing Strength and Memorability
April 1st, 2011 by Olga Koksharova
Great news, ElcomSoft starts Elcomsoft Password Store, an online service to supply customers with guaranteed secure passwords. The new Password Store provides customers a variety of selections, and complies with all industrial and government requirements regarding the length and complexity of passwords being sold. As a value-added service, the company offers near-instant recovery of all passwords sold through its Password Store for a nominal fee.
Cracking BlackBerry backups is now slower… but still possible, thx to GPU acceleration
December 24th, 2010 by Vladimir Katalov
If you have read our recent Cracking BlackBerry Backup Passwords article, you should be familiar with encryption implemented in BlackBerry Desktop Software. Just reminding:
BlackBerry password cracking: multi-threaded, with hardware-accelerated AES
December 9th, 2010 by Vladimir Katalov
Most modern CPUs are multi-core – it is not easy to find even a laptop with less than two cores these days. And for desktops, 4 cores are usual now.
Canon cannot or mustn’t provide image validation feature?
November 30th, 2010 by Olga Koksharova
A true security system cannot be so fragile: Canon Original Data Security broken…
Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Chrome Passwords Cracked
November 11th, 2010 by Olga Koksharova
What is a Web browser for you? It’s virtually a whole world, all together: web sites, blogging, photo and video sharing, social networks, instant messaging, shopping… did I forget anything? Oh yes, logins and passwords. 🙂 Set an account here, sign in there, register here and sing up there – everywhere you need logins and passwords to confirm your identity.
Hacking For Dummies, 3rd Edition by Kevin Beaver
November 2nd, 2010 by Olga Koksharova
Although this new book is on sale from January this year, we are happy to officially say our words of gratitude to Kevin Beaver and advise it to you.
Smartphone Forensics: Cracking BlackBerry Backup Passwords
September 30th, 2010 by Vladimir Katalov
BlackBerry dominates the North American smartphone market, enjoying almost 40 per cent market share. A 20 per cent worldwide market share isn’t exactly a bad thing, too. The total subscriber base for the BlackBerry platform is more than 50 million users.
