Posts Tagged ‘Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor’

Hacking For Dummies, 3rd Edition by Kevin Beaver

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

Although this new book is on sale from January this year, we are happy to officially say our words of gratitude to Kevin Beaver and advise it to you.

In his book Kevin insists that the best way to really understand how to protect your systems and assess their security is to think from a hacker’s viewpoint, get involved, learn how systems can be attacked, find and eliminate their vulnerabilities.  It all practically amounts to being inquisitive and focusing on real problems as in contrast to blindly following common security requirements without understanding what it’s all about.

Kevin extensively writes on the questions of cracking passwords and weak encryption implementations in widely used operating systems, applications and networks. He also suggests Elcomsoft software, in particular Advanced Archive Password Recovery, Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery, Elcomsoft System Recovery, Proactive Password Auditor, and Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor, as effective tools to regularly audit system security and close detected holes.

In this guide Kevin communicates the gravity of ethical hacking in very plain and clear words and gives step –by- step instructions to follow. He easily combines theory and praxis providing valuable tips and recommendations to assess and then improve security weaknesses in your systems.

We want to thank Kevin for testing and including our software in his very “digestible” beginner guide to hacking and recommend our readers this book as a helpful tool to get all facts in order. :)

ElcomSoft News

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

 As the second summer month is coming to an end, it’s time to sum up our news and updates that you might have missed because of vacation in some tropical heaven. Last two weeks brought us really hot days, not only because of the temperature in Moscow City but also due to hard work on program updates. Here is the news:

  • We released the new version of Distributed Password Recovery. It features support for TheBat! and TheBat! Voyager mail clients master passwords (masterkey.dat) and passwords to TheBat! backup files (*.tbk). The GPU acceleration has been extended and now works for Domain Cached Credentials (DCC), as well as Office 2007, Adobe PDF 9, Windows logon passwords (LM and NTLM), WPA/WPA2, and MD5 hashes.
  • A new version of Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor was released. EWSA 1.03 is able to extract WPA-PSK password hashes from local systems when Wireless Zero Configuration is used.
  • Our website is now available in Spanish, Italian, and Polish. We promise to add more languages soon to bring our customers information in their native tongues.
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ATI’s Hall of Fame

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

ATI Stream Developer Showcase enrolled our Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor in its security section, among other “notable applications” that use ATI Stream technology:

http://developer.amd.com/SAMPLES/STREAMSHOWCASE/Pages/default.aspx#security

Yet another pleasant morning news :)

 

Living to the 64-bit rhythms

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

All modern AMD and Intel processors are 64-bit and corresponding Windows versions are also on the market. It is highly recommended to use 64-bit systems (though 32-bit systems perfectly work on 64-bit processors) because in this case more than 3 Gb RAM can be employed, and today we have lots and lots of 64-bit systems, so it’s getting more and more critical. (more…)

Too much security won’t spoil the router, will it make it better?

Monday, May 18th, 2009

A number of D-link routers are now equipped with captcha feature. Sounds interesting. 

Chief technology officer in D-link says: "We are excited to be the first in the market to implement captcha into our routers, providing yet another layer of security to our customers".

No doubt, captcha is a wonderful spam filter for mails and a reliable obstacle to unauthorized access in the web, but is it as good for routers as for the web? (more…)