BlackBerry Password Keeper Escrow Key: Have We Just Found a Hidden Backdoor?
As you may already know from the official press release, we’ve recently updated Elcomsoft Phone Breaker to version 4.10. From that release, you could learn that the updated version of the tool targets...
View ArticleDigging Mac OS Keychains
We have just released a brand new tool, and this time it’s not about mobile forensics. Or is it? Elcomsoft Password Digger is designed for decrypting the content of Mac OS protected storage, the...
View ArticleOvercoming iOS 9 Security in Elcomsoft Phone Breaker 5.0
If you follow industry news, you already know about the release of iOS 9. You may also know that iOS 9 is the toughest one to break, with no jailbreak available now or in foreseeable future. With no...
View ArticleElcomsoft Phone Viewer: iOS 9, Media Gallery and Location Tracking
We’ve just released the first major update to Elcomsoft Phone Viewer, our lightweight forensic tool for glancing over data extracted from mobile devices. Boosting version number to 2.0, we added quite...
View ArticlePhysical Acquisition for 64-bit Devices, iOS 9 Support
Big news! iOS Forensic Toolkit receives its first major update. And it’s a big one. Not only does version 2.0 bring support for iOS 9 handys. We also expanded acquisition support for jailbroken...
View ArticleA New Tool for WhatsApp Acquisition
We have recently released a brand new product, Elcomsoft Explorer for WhatsApp. Targeted at home users and forensic experts along, this Windows-based, iOS-centric tool offers a bunch of extraction...
View ArticleWhat Google Knows About You, and Why It Matters
In today’s thoroughly connected world, everyone shares at least some of their personal information with, well, strangers. Voluntarily or not, people using personal computers or mobile devices have some...
View ArticleDiscounts and Novelties From Our ElcomShop!
Dear friends, here we come with a set of novelties from our ElcomShop. We’ve made a few new designs and added new fancy products, such as long sleeve shirts for girls and baseball caps for boys and...
View ArticleBreaking into Microsoft Account: It’s No Google, But Getting Close
The recent update to one of our oldest tools, Elcomsoft System Recovery, brought long-overdue compatibility with Windows systems that sign in with online authentication via Microsoft Account. While...
View ArticleBitLocker: What’s New in Windows 10 November Update, And How To Break It
BitLocker is a popular full-disk encryption scheme employed in all versions of Windows (but not in every edition) since Windows Vista. BitLocker is used to protect stationary and removable volumes...
View ArticleElcomsoft System Recovery UEFI Support
As you may already know, we’ve released an update to Elcomsoft System Recovery, a tool allowing to reset or recover Windows and Microsoft Account passwords by booting from an external USB drive. The...
View ArticleElcomsoft Phone Viewer 2.20 Goes Stand-Alone
We have a bunch of mobile forensic tools. We have tools for extracting data from jailbroken iPhones and tools for decrypting password-protected backups. Tools for downloading data from iCloud and tools...
View ArticleNVIDIA Pascal: a Great Password Cracking Tool
During the last several years, progress on the CPU performance front has seemingly stopped. Granted, last-generation CPUs are cool, silent and power-efficient. Anecdotal evidence: my new laptop (a...
View ArticleMac OS Forensics: Attacking FileVault 2
In the world of Windows dominance, Apple’s Mac OS X enjoys a healthy market share of 9.5% among desktop operating systems. The adoption of Apple’s desktop OS (macOS seems to be the new name) is...
View ArticleBreaking BitLocker Encryption: Brute Forcing the Backdoor (Part II)
How often do you think forensic specialists have to deal with encrypted containers? Compared with office documents and archives that are relatively infrequent, every second case involves an encrypted...
View ArticleBuilding a Distributed Network in the Cloud: Using Amazon EC2 to Break Passwords
Not all passwords provide equal protection. Some formats are more resistant to brute-force attacks than others. As an example, Microsoft Office 2013 and 2016 employ a smart encryption scheme that is...
View ArticleUsing Gmail API: The Forensic Way to Acquire Email
Just now, we’ve updated Elcomsoft Cloud Explorer to version 1.10. This new release adds the ability to download email messages from the user’s Gmail account for offline analysis. In order to do that,...
View ArticleiOS Logical Acquisition: The Last Hope For Passcode-Locked Devices?
For many months, a working jailbreak was not available for current versions of iOS. In the end of July, Pangu released public jailbreak for iOS 9.2-9.3.3. A few days ago, Apple patched the exploit and...
View ArticleiCloud Photo Library: All Your Photos Are Belong to Us
Releasing a major update of a complex forensic tool is always tough. New data locations and formats, new protocols and APIs require an extensive amount of research. Sometimes, we discover things that...
View ArticleElcomsoft Cloud Explorer: Extracting Call Logs and Wi-Fi Passwords
Google is pushing Android to make it a truly secure mobile OS. Mandatory encryption and secure boot make physical acquisition of new Android devices a dead end. While securing physical devices against...
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