What’s New in Elcomsoft System Recovery 8.34: More Data, Faster Imaging, BitLocker Key Extraction
April 29th, 2025 by Oleg Afonin
We updated Elcomsoft System Recovery to version 8.34. This release focuses on expanding the tool’s data acquisition capabilities, improving disk imaging performance, and adding BitLocker recovery key extraction for systems managed via Active Directory. Here’s a technical breakdown of the changes.
From COMPUTEX TAIPEI
June 6th, 2009 by Vladimir Katalov
Sorry I did not write blog for some time… Just returned from one-week vacation at Rhodos (Greece).
Microsoft UK NTO turns from praxis to theory
June 5th, 2009 by Olga Koksharova
Jerry Fishenden, Microsoft National Technology Officer in the UK leaves his post to work on his own. He intends to elaborate “a guidebook for politicians and policymakers about what does and doesn’t work in terms of delivering an effective technology policy”.
Preliminary Larrabee perfomance revealed
June 5th, 2009 by Andrey Belenko
When it comes to Larrabee one of most intriguing things is its performance. Official information provided by Intel was not enough to get good estimation. In my previous post I’ve estimated it as "roughly equivalent to GTX 295". Well, it seems I was too optimistic. Latest rumors are that current Larrabee samples deliver same performance as GTX 285.
Hard news from COMPUTEX 2009
June 3rd, 2009 by Olga Koksharova
It looks like AMD has outrun NVIDIA today. Its World’s First Microsoft DirectX® 11 Graphics Processor, presented a few hours ago in Taipei, is currently the best hardware for Windows 7. Catch up, NVIDIA! However not many details of it suggested. At least enjoy the graphics:
Password Usage Behavior Survey Announced
June 3rd, 2009 by Olga Koksharova
ElcomSoft is launching a survey intended to collect more information on how people handle their passwords, which remain a major way for user authentication. Whether you are ElcomSoft customer or haven’t seriously thought about password security, we hope you will answer our questions.
Nvidia Unveils 1U Server With 2 Tesla GPUs On Board
June 3rd, 2009 by Katerina Korolkova, Direktur Humas
The summer has begun, and as usual at this time of the year big companies present the results of hard work to the public. With Microsoft’s Bing and Google Wave flooding the news, you might have overlooked the joint release of NVIDIA and Supermicro. At Computex 2009 in Taipei, Taiwan, Nvidia and Supermicro announced
More reasons to hack your PC
June 2nd, 2009 by Olga Koksharova
Want to get an overall picture of all potential threats to your unprotected pc and how it can be used when hacked? Have a look at the vivid graph drafted by Brian Krebs. It’s not only credit cards and passwords… Hey, Brian says this monstrous list not complete, I wonder if you have something to add?
Eurocrypt 2009 Highlights
June 2nd, 2009 by Andrey Belenko
About a month ago annual Eurocrypt conference took place in Cologne, Germany. This is rather academic event (as most if not all events held by IACR) so it is not always easy to read its proceedings filled with formulas and theorems. Nonetheless there are usually couple of very interesting works presented at each such event. Let me tell you a little bit about this year’s highlights.
Using Passwords Online
June 1st, 2009 by Olga Koksharova
Today’s technologies allow staying online practically 24 hrs a day, periodically falling into a sleeping mode. The Internet became easily accessible and numerous devices can connect us to the web from everywhere, and every time when we surf the web we are being registered, at least via IP address of our devices.
