Effective Disk Imaging: Ports, Hubs, and Power
October 14th, 2025 by Elcomsoft R&D
Some time ago, we tested NVMe disk imaging performance (see When Speed Matters: Imaging Fast NVMe Drives), focusing mainly on software. This time, we turned our attention to hardware connections: which ports deliver the best results, and whether using a USB hub, active or passive, affects imaging speed and reliability.
From InfoSecurity, “the number One in Europe”
April 28th, 2009 by Vladimir Katalov
We never thought that our participation would bring such kind of trouble (or at least a disappointment).
GPU Assisted Password Cracking at Troopers 2009
April 28th, 2009 by Katerina Korolkova, Direktur Humas
Last week a colleague of mine, Andrey Belenko, gave a speech at the Troopers conference in Munich. Olga wrote about it in this blog. All the talks at Troopers were awesome. Soon the videos and slide shows will be available for downloading on Troopers website.
NVIDIA about Intel
April 28th, 2009 by Vladimir Katalov
Considering Intel Core i7? Read Nvidia Says Core i7 Isn’t Worth It and nVidia calls Core i7 a waste of money first. We’d agree that investing into GPU(s) is really a good idea, especially if you need to crack passwords.
Wardriving with NVIDIA
April 28th, 2009 by Vladimir Katalov
17" screen, Intel Core 2 Extreme processor (four cores) plus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M — an excellent device not only for gaming, but also for wardriving. Get it from Sager, and just add Wireless Security Auditor.
More cores, faster password cracking
April 24th, 2009 by Vladimir Katalov
AMD revealed that its plans a 12-core Opteron processor in 2010, and a 16-core Opteron in 2011. Unfortunately, almost no further/technical details — more cores is definitely good, but we’d like to see whether AMD is able to implement SSE2 effectively. Right now, SSE2 instructions are executed much slower on AMD processors than on Intel ones, while they’re really important for SHA-1 (the most password checking routines are based on). Or may be SSE5 will give provide additional benefits for password cracking?
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.
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.
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.
Adobe Reader [in]security
April 22nd, 2009 by Vladimir Katalov
From F-Secure advises against using Adobe Reader article:
