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Founded in 1990, ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. develops state-of-the-art computer forensics tools, provides computer forensics training and computer evidence consulting services. Since 1997, ElcomSoft has been providing support to businesses, law enforcement, military, and intelligence agencies. ElcomSoft tools are used by most of the Fortune 500 corporations, multiple branches of the military all over the world, foreign governments, and all major accounting firms. ElcomSoft and its officers are members of the Russian Cryptology Association. ElcomSoft is a Microsoft Certified Partner and an Intel Software Partner.

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2009 Quarter 2

ElcomSoft Makes PGP® Disk Password Recovery Faster and More Affordable  
ElcomSoft Co.Ltd. updates Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery, adding GPU acceleration to recover passwords protecting PGP Disks up to 200 times faster. The new GPU-accelerated product uses standard NVIDIA video cards to accelerate password recovery, and costs less than products using dedicated hardware. The new cost-effective PGP Disk password recovery solution is not only more affordable than competition, but recovers passwords protecting encrypted PGP Disks, including full disk encryption, 10 to 200 times faster than CPU-only algorithms and faster than products based on dedicated hardware such as Xilinx FPGAs. - 2009-04-23

Near-Instant Recovery of Password-Protected Excel Spreadsheets  
ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. updates Advanced Office Password Breaker, a product to remove password protection from Microsoft Office documents, adding Rainbow Tables for password-protected Excel spreadsheets. Rainbow Tables offer near-instant recovery of 97% of spreadsheets protected with 40-bit encryption used by Microsoft Excel 97-2000 and in documents saved by later versions of the product in compatibility mode. - 2009-04-16


2009 Quarter 1

ElcomSoft Offers a Special Discount for Government Institutions  
ElcomSoft Co. Ltd., a leading provider of various password recovery solutions, announces the availability of a Special Order discount. The new discount program enables government entities, military branches, criminal investigation and law enforcement agencies, police and emergency services to order selected ElcomSoft password recovery products with a discount. The new 20% discount is in addition to any volume or bundle discounts already offered by ElcomSoft. - 2009-02-26

ElcomSoft Employs ATI and NVIDIA for Its Password Cracking Business  
ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. puts ATI and NVIDIA hardware to work accelerating the recovery of Wi-Fi passwords. The newly released Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor 1.0 benefits from the ability of last-generation video cards manufactured by ATI and NVIDIA to munch numbers faster, allowing its users to crack Wi-Fi passwords faster than ever before. - 2009-01-15


2008 Quarter 4

ElcomSoft Claims Adobe Acrobat 9 Is a Hundred Times Less Secure  
ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. announces the availability of an updated version of Advanced PDF Password Recovery 5.0, a product to unlock password-protected PDF files created by Adobe Acrobat and compatible products. The new version supports the new Adobe Acrobat 9 format, offering a hundred times increase in password recovery speed for the new format thanks to a security weakness discovered by the company in Adobe Acrobat 9. - 2008-11-26

ElcomSoft Breaks Wi-Fi Encryption Faster with GPU Acceleration  
ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. accelerates the recovery of WPA and WPA2 encryption used in the Wi-Fi protocol by employing the newgeneration NVIDIA video cards. ElcomSoft patent-pending GPU acceleration technology implemented in Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery allows using laptop, desktop or server computers equipped with supported NVIDIA video cards to break Wi-Fi encryption up to 100 times faster than by using CPU only. - 2008-10-09

Creating a New Reality: Cracking One Billion Passwords per Second  
ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. announces the release of a new version of Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery, a high-end password recovery solution to recover a variety of system and document passwords. The new release reaches the recovery speed of one billion passwords per second by employing several NVIDIA video accelerators. Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery can recover a variety of system passwords such as NTLM and startup passwords, crack MD5 hashes, unlock password-protected documents created by Microsoft Office 97-2007, PDF files created by Adobe Acrobat, as well as PGP and UNIX and Oracle user passwords. With the newest GPU acceleration upgrade of Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery the passwords will be recovered up to 25 times faster than by using CPU-only mode. - 2008-10-02


2008 Quarter 2

Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery adds Multiprocessor/Multicore Support  
ElcomSoft, a leader in password recovery, has added multiprocessor and multicore support to Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery v. 2.50. - 2008-04-16

Elcomsoft System Recovery Supports Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1  
ElcomSoft has released version 3.0 of Elcomsoft System Recovery, a boot-disk application that makes it easy to access your computer's Windows password settings. If you're locked out of your computer, Elcomsoft System Recovery will give you access and let you troubleshoot problems that are preventing you from running Windows. Elcomsoft System Recovery works with local computer accounts, as well as with domain controllers, supporting the full range of Windows operating systems: Windows NT4, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and now Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 released recently. - 2008-03-27


2008 Quarter 1

Advanced EFS Data Recovery Breaks Vista and Windows Server 2008 Encryption  
ElcomSoft Co.Ltd. has released the Professional version 4.0 of Advanced EFS Data Recovery (AEFSDR Pro) for Windows, a powerful data recovery application that makes it easy to recover (decrypt) files encrypted on NTFS (EFS) partitions created in Windows 2003, XP, 2000, Vista, and 2008. In addition to all of the capabilities of the Standard version, AEFSDR Pro can perform low-level disk scanning at the sector level, enabling data recovery and forensics specialists to find encryption keys that have been deleted, even on drives that have been reformatted. - 2008-02-27

New Password Recovery Software Unlocks Microsoft Word Passwords  
ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. has released Advanced Office Password Breaker (AOPB) v. 2.0, an application that makes it easy to gain access to Microsoft(R) Word(R) password-protected documents that have been accidentally or purposefully password protected. The software is used by information technology support administrators, business managers, and law enforcement officials to protect their organizations from the perils of losing access to critical documents. - 2008-02-21


2007 Quarter 5

Audit Oracle and UNIX Password Security  
ElcomSoft, a leader in password recovery, has added support for Oracle and UNIX passwords to Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery v. 2.10. One weak password on an Oracle or UNIX/Linux computer can compromise the entire network. The latest version of ElcomSoft's Windows password recovery application makes it easy for system administrators to regularly audit all of the passwords on the network, including Oracle and UNIX passwords, to ensure that they comply with corporate security policies. By loading widely-available Oracle and UNIX system hashes into the application, administrators can identify weak passwords, and make appropriate corrections. - 2007-12-20

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Vladimir Katalov
ElcomSoft Co.Ltd.
7 495 974-1162
info@elcomsoft.com

Olga Koksharova
ElcomSoft Co.Ltd.
7 495 974-1162
pr@elcomsoft.com



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