Archive for the ‘General’ Category

The 5th China Computer Forensics Conference

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

So, they are back from CCFC  (Beijing) where Vladimir, Andrew, and Dmitry made their speeches and listened to those given by other reps.  Here is a follow-up of the conference with nice shots kindly taken by a keen “shooter” Dmitry Sklyarov ;) But first of all, we’d like to thank Sprite Guo for taking care of all preparations and perfect managing throughout the whole conference – our BIG thank you!

Remarkably, on guys’ returning there was no need to ask them about their trip, it was clearly seen on their fresh faces they are full of new ideas which is the most intrinsic value of all.

So, here is a photo-reportage…

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ElcomSoft at INTERPOLITEX-2009

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

In the period from 27 to 30 October 2009 in Moscow the XIII International exhibition of security facilities of the State "INTERPOLITEX – 2009" took place.

Our team was lucky to participate in this great event organized by the Government of Russia. It was the first time that we had the opportunity to take part in this exhibition, hope not the last one :) I’d like to share my opinion and overall impression of this event.

Actually, from the very beginning things went on smoothly, we were supplied with everything that was ordered (pleasant surprise for this country). Though we didn’t have much space at our stand, we were supposed to organize our booth very nicely, thanks to my colleagues, of course :-) so our booth, compared to all those enormous, two-storeyed stands, managed to attract the attention not only of gapers, but of security specialists and/or our potential clients as well. Here are some pics from the show:

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ElcomSoft at it-sa, Nuremberg, Germany

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

IT-SA-Expo goes on very well and our presentation at the Technical Forum (Forum Blau) was a success – thanks to Rene Mathes who gave out the presentation and 8com GmbH. The talk was about how one speeds up the hash recovery process with the parallelizing CUDA technology. If you happen to be in Nuremberg, Germany, visit our booth at Hall 6 (Stand 542).

There is also a workshop on hash cracking at the booth of 8com where our software will be featured. It starts today at 11:45.
 

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Now: long-awaited ElcomSoft Password Recovery KIT

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

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Our it-friends from Ukraine (KARPOLAN and Dmitry) highly optimized our developing processes and helped us finalize long-awaited Password Recovery KIT. We won’t go deep into technical details, just have a look at rough visualization.

Load yourself to the full with books and music for free

Monday, September 21st, 2009

get books and music for freeBack from summer holidays? Suntanned, full of energy, had a good time? And worried about your bank account balance? Don’t strain your nerves unnecessarily, rather keep your business flourishing. We say that your money will return like a homing pigeon back to you! Keep your windows wide open

ElcomSoft prepared yet another pleasant and valuable surprise for you – money certificates up to $100 that you can spend in on-line shops (viz. Amazon and iTunes) on anything you want: music, books, video, software – anything!! Lightning never strikes in the same place, so, drop everything and buy now, because you’ll get back your money.

 

ATTN: This offer is not for long! So, stay tuned and keep your ears cocked for our news and other special offers.

Please learn terms and conditions to get your Amazon and iTunes gift certificate.

SysAdminDay

Friday, July 31st, 2009

Guys,

it is SysAdminDay today.  We wish you to have thankful colleagues that will respect your time and show gratitude each time you print a test page.  Let accountants brew you hot tea. We wish you tolerance each time users forget their passwords (passwords can always be recovered with our tools). Keep your networks safe and sound.

To celebrate SysAdminDay we are eating real salo in the office and singing this sysadmin song :)

The salo. Click to enlarge this piece. Mmmmmmmmm 

Believe me, it’s tasty.

Password masking: myths and truths

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Password masking: myths and truthsEver heard of password masking problem? To be honest, I have not – until I’ve read the Stop Password Masking article by Jakob Nielsen (somewhere referred to as "usability guru"), followed by a lot of other publications, blog posts and comments (see ‘em all); so-called security guru Bruce Schneier wrote even two essays on that. 

Well, that reminded me of a very funny stupid CAPSoff Campaign

In brief, here is the "problem": for years (I think starting from Windows 3.0 released almost 20 years ago), the passwords are being masked as you type them (in most programs what have any kind of password protection, and an operating system itself), i.e. replaced with asterisks or black circles. What for? To prevent the password from being read by someone who stands behind you.

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Disaster Recovery and its key objectives

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Disaster Recovery and its key objectives

New statistics* shows disaster recovery (DR) is getting more attention, and more upper level execs become involved with DR issues. Ideally, each company should have an emergency plan in case of power/system failure, loss of access, outside attack, sabotage or else – called DRP (disaster recovery plan) or even DRRP (disaster response and recovery plan). DRP is only a part of risk management practices which ensure emergency preparedness and risk reduction and include such initiatives as regular data backups, stocking recovery software, archiving, etc. – these activities are reflected in PMI and NIST standards.

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Encryption and decryption from security law perspective (Part II)

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

In my previous post I suggested several variants of computer security translated by different laws. Now I’d like to get to ciphers…again viewed by law.

So, how does the law see encryption and decryption issues through glasses of security standard? First of all, it says there simply should be encryption/decryption tools available.

ENCRYTION AND DECRYPTION (A) – § 164.312(a)(2)(iv)
Where this implementation specification is a reasonable and appropriate safeguard for a covered entity, the covered entity must:
“Implement a mechanism to encrypt and decrypt electronic protected health information.”

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Rumored AMD Phenom II X4 TWKR chips accessible?

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Not long ago I wrote about AMD’s TWKR when the first rumors reached the media. Now we have more news on that. And the sad one is that TWKR still cannot be purchased in retail and most probably won’t be, at least not the ones from the sought-after 100 exemplars that exist today.

Good one?

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