The iOS 27 Recovery Menu: What It Means for Forensics
August 5th, 2026 by Oleg Afonin
iOS 27 and iPadOS 27, currently in beta, add a bootable recovery menu to the iPhone and iPad. Hold the power button while the device starts up and you land in a small pre-boot environment with six options, one of which is the old “connect to computer” recovery mode. This is the same idea Apple silicon Macs have had for years, and it is overdue on the phone.
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.
Password-related news
May 12th, 2009 by Vladimir Katalov
There is a few, so I’ll put ’em all into a single blog post 🙂
Hard disk recovery
May 12th, 2009 by Vladimir Katalov
Highly recommended: Burned, Dropped, Drowned: HDD Recovery In Pictures. I hope that you will not encounter into such situations, though :).
DC4420
May 12th, 2009 by Vladimir Katalov
Apart from official IT Security events, London ethical hackers like to organize monthly meetings such as DC4420 in clubs, sometimes changing their location. In an informal manner they exchange their experience, represent new ideas and technologies.
