Low-Level Extraction the Apple TV 4K 2nd Generation
September 24th, 2026 by Vladimir Katalov
We’ve added bootloader-level low-level extraction support for the second-generation Apple TV 4K. While the older 4K model was compatible with the checkm8 exploit, the second-generation is based on a newer SoC that required a newer exploit, usbliter8. The exploit requires a custom adapter that uses a microcontroller board with our custom firmware.
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.
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 (?):
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.
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.
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.
Intel Gulftown
April 21st, 2009 by Vladimir Katalov
New member of Core i7 family: six cores, hyper-threading, and some new instructions — including ones for AES encryption. Unfortunately, useless for our password-cracking purposes: most password-checking routines are based on SHA-1. But anyway, an ability to run 12 threads at a time will definitely increase the performance. We’ll see (in Q1’2010). More info at Tom’s Hardware.
NVIDIA GT300
April 20th, 2009 by Vladimir Katalov
According to The Inquirer, Nvidia GT300 promised in October. Should be a good video card for GPU-accelerated password cracking :).
How to grow your graphics card effectiveness
April 17th, 2009 by Olga Koksharova
Water cooling, liquid nitrogen, and dry ice – which gets the most of your ATI Radeon HD 4890 graphics card? Learn it from Zac O’Vadka today’s post.
E-Discovery
April 16th, 2009 by Vladimir Katalov
If you have no idea what E-Discovery is, read Crossing the E-Discovery Border: IT and Legal. But if you do, I’d recommend attending this webinar anyway 🙂
Password cracking with Microsoft cofee
April 16th, 2009 by Vladimir Katalov
No, it’s no a typo :). COFEE means Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, actually. Never heard about it? Then read Microsoft supplies Interpol with DIY forensics tool. Just don’t ask where to get it. We have not seen it either.
