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26 September, 2012 | Simon Edwards Blog - http://simonedwards.blogspot.co.uk/

According to Elcomsoft's researchers, Microsoft has done a great job beefing up the encryption of its Office documents. This has forced those who want to break it to move from brute forcing techniques to more advanced methods.

15 September, 2012 | Security Nirvana - http://securitynirvana.blogspot.com/

Elcomsoft has announced that certain versions of fingerprint software named Protector Suite made by UPEK (now part of Authentec) stores your Windows password in a 'scrambled' format in registry. This allows an attacker through different entry points to get easy access to a users Windows password. I have no reason not to believe Elcomsoft in their claims, but UPEK/Autentec seriously disagrees. In the middle of this I happen to have some questions, and an opinion regarding biometric software today.

13 September, 2012 | Bright Side Of News* - http://www.brightsideofnews.com/

When purchasing notebooks for the enterprise, one of most common requirements is that they have a fingerprint reader, since biometric is considered safe. However, while it may be hard to fake your footprints - a gaping hole was found in the software suite which can expose all of your saved passwords.

12 September, 2012 | SC Magazine UK - http://www.scmagazineuk.com/

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) allow cost-effective and highly tailored hardware acceleration for a wide range of computing problems and are a very economical solution to the processing needs of modern password cracking.

23 August, 2012 | InformationWeek - http://www.informationweek.com/

Earlier this year, for example, researchers from Moscow-based digital forensic toolmaker Elcomsoft analyzed 13 Apple iOS password managers--a.k.a. password keepers, wallets, and safes--to see if they securely stored passwords. Elcomsoft's interest was more than academic, since the company has long sold tools used by law enforcement agencies to crack iPhone data security. It wanted to know if password safes might provide a further hurdle to forensic investigators.

18 July, 2012 | VR-Zone - http://vr-zone.com/

There's no secret that graphics cards such as NVIDIA GeForce, Tesla as well as AMD Radeon are being used by security agencies worldwide. Their goal is to crack the passwords of suspects as much as 10-20x faster than the most expensive Intel processor is able to do. Today, another company is claiming its stake in lucrative security business.

18 July, 2012 | DFINews - http://www.dfinews.com/

ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. has released password cracking solutions supporting Pico’s range of high-end hardware acceleration platforms. ElcomSoft has updated its range of password recovery tools, employing Pico FPGA-based hardware to greatly accelerate the recovery of passwords.

18 July, 2012 | Homeland Security News Wire - http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/

Pico Computing manufactures a range of high-end hardware acceleration platforms, offering a computational equivalent of more than 2,000 dual-core processors in a single 4U chassis; ElcomSoft updates its range of password recovery tools, employing Pico Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-based hardware to accelerate the recovery of passwords

6 July, 2012 | Macworld - http://www.macworld.co.uk/

Extract all data, passcodes and keychains from a locked iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch with professional-grade security software. Forensics extraction is the process of getting into a computer device (in this case an iOS device) and extracting all the data from it. And Elcomsoft's iOS Forensics Toolkit is an incredibly powerful piece of kit that enables you to hack into, and extract pretty much everything on an iPhone (passcodes, keys, files, messages, audio recordings, and so on).

21 May, 2012 | IDM - http://idm.net.au/

ElcomSoft has updated its Phone Password Breaker tool with the ability to retrieve user content from password-protected backups created by Apple iOS devices and BlackBerry smartphones, as well as the ability to retrieve iPhones’ user data from iCloud.