Locked In or Locked Out? Unlocking ZIP, RAR, PDF, and Microsoft Office Passwords
July 29th, 2026 by Oleg Afonin
There is a whole industry selling software to protect data: full-disk encryption, rights management, key servers, the works. Almost none of it lives in an ordinary home or a two-person office. At home people protect a file the way the application in front of them allows. They type a password into WinRAR, or into Word, or into a PDF, and move on with the day. Here is the thing: none of those applications is a security product. WinRAR is a compression tool, Word is a word processor, Acrobat is a document viewer. They just happen to carry enough encryption to be used as a lock, and that is exactly why people use them. It is right there, it is free, and it needs no IT department.
It was Data Privacy Day… our warmest congratulations!
January 29th, 2010 by Olga Koksharova
ElcomSoft always have yet another pair of eyes for your privacy… 🙂
123 Out Goes… Your Password
January 22nd, 2010 by Katerina Korolkova, Direktur Humas
About a month ago, a SQL Injection flaw was found in the database of RockYou.com, a website dealing with social networking applications. The Tech Herald reports that 32.6 million passwords were exposed and posted online due to the flaw. The complete examination of the passwords from the list showed that the passwords in question are not only short as RockYou.com allows creating 5-character-passwords but also alphanumeric only.
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:
