Password Managers: Security, Risks, and Forensic Implications
November 18th, 2025 by Oleg Afonin
Password managers have become a common part of everyday digital life, helping users handle hundreds of online accounts. They simplify authentication and reduce the need to remember complex credentials, yet the same centralization that makes them convenient also concentrates risk. Modern platforms from Apple, Google and Microsoft all ship with built-in password managers, and many users rely on third-party apps for the same purpose.
Frequently Asked Question: Advanced Office Password RECOVERY or Advanced Office Password BREAKER?
May 20th, 2009 by Olga Koksharova
Time is money, difficult to contradict this fact. And another proven fact is that you lose something exactly when something turns out to be absolutely necessary. Once you lost a password to your Word document or presentation that you were going to give in an hour, or Excel report which was supposed to be sent to your manager yesterday… you will count seconds before you get back your files.
Cost-effective video cards
May 20th, 2009 by Vladimir Katalov
Considering a (new) AMD/ATI or NVIDIA video card for password cracking with Wireless Security Auditor or Distributed Password Recovery (to get the most from GPU acceleration technology — at an affordable price)? Read the Best Graphics Cards For The Money: May ’09 at Tom’s Hardware. I especially like the Graphics Card Hierarchy Chart.
Too much security won’t spoil the router, will it make it better?
May 18th, 2009 by Olga Koksharova
A number of D-link routers are now equipped with captcha feature. Sounds interesting.
CUDA-enabled applications
May 18th, 2009 by Vladimir Katalov
Tom’s Hardware has tested two mainstream NVIDIA cards (GeForce 9600 GT and GeForce 9800 GTX) on several CUDA-enabled applications. The applications were:
Week of Scams
May 15th, 2009 by Katerina Korolkova, Direktur Humas
have a great and secure weekend 🙂
Overclocked AMD/ATI card
May 14th, 2009 by Vladimir Katalov
AMD has hit another megahertz milestone record today. In fact, this is ATI Radeon HD 4890 card, overclocked to 1 GHz at the factory (normally, it runs at 850 MHz); surprisingly, air cooled (I thought that water cooling would be needed).
Laptop security – myths and mistakes
May 13th, 2009 by Olga Koksharova
Today’s businesses are very mobile. Sometimes you don’t even need to have a conventional office, it becomes virtual, it is always with you in your mobile phones, netbooks and laptops. Such mobile mini-offices stuffed with corporate documents and reports, partners’ data, confidencial correspondence, access passwords are in danger of being stolen, both virtually and physically. You can try to protect your laptop using laptop security cable locks but what if it was stolen? Let all your information go into adversary’s hands? Do you _really_ think that your Windows logon password is an impenetrable barrier for the adversary? Have you heard of Elcomsoft System Recovery? You still think your laptop is secure because you have BIOS password and/or partial drive encryption? Read an article by Kevin Beaver ‘Securing corporate data on your laptops’ , take off rose-colored glasses and revise your laptop security as suggested in Kevin’s step-by-step outline.
NIST drafts new enterprise password management (open to publication, distribution and adaptation!)
May 13th, 2009 by Olga Koksharova
Probably you’ve already heard about this vicious circle thousand times:
More on SLI
May 13th, 2009 by Vladimir Katalov
If you are going to purchase a new computer (or make it yourself), you should definitely think about graphics — for CAD/CAM, gaming, searching for extraterrestrial intelligence at home or password cracking. Of course, thinking of budget, too. I hope you’re already aware of NVIDIA SLI which allows to use multiple video cards, but how a single dual-GPU compares to two single-GPU ones? Read GeForce GTX 295 Vs. GTX 275 SLI: When Two Are Better Than One.
