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.

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More on NVIDIA GT300

April 23rd, 2009 by Vladimir Katalov

Finally, nVidia’s GT300 specifications revealed! 512 cores (remember that GT200 has only 240), which means about 3 TFLOPS — can you imagine that? We’re also expecting the new generation of Tesla supercomputers based on those GPUs. GT300 also gives direct hardware access for CUDA 3.0, DirectX 11, OpenGL 3.1 and OpenCL.

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Dangerously Easy Password Recovery

April 23rd, 2009 by Olga Koksharova

There is only one way to break through PGP® encryption – GPU accelerated brute force – and that one is too many. New Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery v. 2.80.206 crunches PGP® passwords 200 times faster using graphic chips.

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TROOPERS09 – are you with hackers or what?

April 22nd, 2009 by Olga Koksharova

If you added this blog to your news feeder, then you prefer getting skilled rather than getting owned – as in Troopers’ motto.

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Wireless Security Survey

April 22nd, 2009 by Vladimir Katalov

The key findings of the survey of the 35860 wireless networks (in 12 Indian cities) are:

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Six-Core Opterons (Istanbul)

April 22nd, 2009 by Vladimir Katalov

According to Tweak Down, AMD will start shipping them next month. We’ll see how do they compare with Intel Gulftown.

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Military Strike Fighter F-35 Materials Hacked

April 21st, 2009 by Olga Koksharova

As posted by Rosalie Marshall in her today’s article, secret F-35 military plane design materials have been stolen presumably by Chinese hackers (?):

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Tesla supercomputer

April 21st, 2009 by Vladimir Katalov

Can you imagine 10,080 processing cores? And how about 40 TFlops? Thanks to NVIDIA Tesla — this is 42 C1060 cards only.

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ATI Radeon HD 4770 expected next month

April 21st, 2009 by Olga Koksharova

The 40nm-wonder ATI Radeon HD 4770 is expected in May at price $99, according to engaget. It seems it’s going to outperform Nvidia 9800GT in terms of speed and price.  As for speed, VR-Zone claims that HD 4770 is not a step behind HD 4850, do you believe it? Look at the benchmarks based on computer games.   

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Password cracking with Apple Mac Pro

April 21st, 2009 by Vladimir Katalov

Nvidia has announced that it will now offer Nvidia Quadro FX 4800 for Apple Mac Pro systems. Good idea! More on CNET.

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