«In July 2025, a tactical team of United States Marshals descended on the Tennessee home of Angela Lipps, arresting the fifty-year-old grandmother at gunpoint while she watched her young grandchildren. Her apprehension was not the culmination of traditional detective work, but the result of authorities placing undue confidence in an AI-based facial recognition system. An […]»

27 March, 2026Oleg Afonin

«We have just released a major update to Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery. While the release notes might simply say “migrated to 64-bit,” the reality under the hood is far more complex and significant. This is not a cosmetic update or a simple recompile; it is a fundamental architectural shift necessitated by the evolution of GPU […]»

26 March, 2026Oleg Afonin

«Many storage devices and adapter boards look alike. When holding a module with a connector that looks suspiciously like the M.2, how do you know exactly what you are dealing with? Is that M.2 board a SATA drive, a fast NVMe device or a Wi-Fi/Bluetooth combo? Will a drive removed from an Apple computer work […]»

17 March, 2026Oleg Afonin