It's been a few years since we checked in with Elcomsoft's Wireless Security Auditor WiFi cracking software. As you'd expect, things have become easier, much easier. Elcomsoft now has an all-in-one ...

This means, the firm claims, that fairly long seven-character password – on either the handset or the media card – can be unlocked in less than an hour if the password consists of characters in a ...

Elcomsoft, the Russian security company, has doped up its Distributed Password Recovery suite to crack Wi-Fi WPA and WPA2 security with the aid of GPUs. This particular crackware is targeted at, and ...

You know all that talk about GPUs being the new CPUs? Well it's not just a lot of hot, ventilated air. Thanks in large part to the launch of development kits like nVidia's CUDA, Russian outfit ...

Because of the computational power of today's GPUs, GPUs are starting to be harnessed more and more to help out CPUs with some hardcore number crunching. That is the concept behind Nvidia's CUDA, ...

A few weeks ago, the folks at Elcomsoft announced the firm had enhanced what it calls a password-recovery tool by allowing WPA (WiFi Protected Access) and WPA2 passphrases to be brute-force cracked ...

We may earn a commission for purchases using our links. Learn more. One of the great things about BlackBerry devices is the ability to password protect the device itself, as well as certain ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--A jury on Tuesday acquitted a Russian software company of criminal copyright charges related to selling a program that can crack antipiracy protections on electronic books. The case ...

ElcomSoft, a Russian computer security firm that specializes in cracking passwords and circumventing encrypted systems, has successfully broken iOS 4's hardware encryption. In around 20 minutes, the ...