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 5th China Computer Forensics Conference
December 17th, 2009 by Olga Koksharova
So, they are back from CCFC (Beijing) where Vladimir, Andrew, and Dmitry made their speeches and listened to those given by other reps. Here is a follow-up of the conference with nice shots kindly taken by a keen “shooter” Dmitry Sklyarov 😉 But first of all, we’d like to thank Sprite Guo for taking care of all preparations and perfect managing throughout the whole conference – our BIG thank you!
New sweeping WPA Cracker & its alternatives
December 8th, 2009 by Alexandra Tsybulskaya
It’s a well-know fact that WPA-PSK networks are vulnerable to dictionary attacks, though one cannot but admit that running a respectable-sized dictionary over a WPA network handshake can take days or weeks.
ElcomSoft at it-sa, Nuremberg, Germany
October 14th, 2009 by Katerina Korolkova, Direktur Humas
IT-SA-Expo goes on very well and our presentation at the Technical Forum (Forum Blau) was a success – thanks to Rene Mathes who gave out the presentation and 8com GmbH. The talk was about how one speeds up the hash recovery process with the parallelizing CUDA technology. If you happen to be in Nuremberg, Germany, visit our booth at Hall 6 (Stand 542).
Need to protect your VBA macro ? Simply damage the file !
October 8th, 2009 by Andrey Malyshev
One of our customers sent me two Excel XLA add-ins. When I tried to open that file in the VBA Editor — the "Project is locked" message appeared. Add-in has been already unlocked by our VBA password recovery tool. According to Microsoft article this message may appear in two cases: when the macro is protected by password or when it is digitally signed. I analysed the macro password record and found that the password is empty. MS Excel also showed me that macro have no any digital signatures. Then I looked into protection record with more attention and for example found that:
Load yourself to the full with books and music for free
September 21st, 2009 by Olga Koksharova
Back from summer holidays? Suntanned, full of energy, had a good time? And worried about your bank account balance? Don’t strain your nerves unnecessarily, rather keep your business flourishing. We say that your money will return like a homing pigeon back to you! Keep your windows wide open
More on Radeon HD 5000
September 10th, 2009 by Vladimir Katalov
Tom’s Hardware is a really good source we can definitely trust, so if you need more details on Radeon HD 5000-series cards (specifications and prices) that are coming soon, just read:
AMD vs NVIDIA, next round
September 9th, 2009 by Vladimir Katalov
Looking for new password cracking hardware (to take advantage of GPU acceleration)? Wait just a little bit more: new ATI and NVIDIA cards (with DirectX 11) will be available soon.
Fastest GPU(s)
August 11th, 2009 by Vladimir Katalov
Just about two weeks ago, ATI has introduced the fastest GPU yet: FirePro V8750. 800 shader engines, 115.2 GB/s memory bandwidth, 2 GB frame buffer memory (GDDR5), two DisplayPort outputs, one DVI output. Thinking about purchasing it? The cost is as high as $1,800. More details at Tom’s Hardware.
