What’s special about EINPB? Let’s have a quick jog through some of its features. Our new tool instantly reveals cached passwords to Web sites in Microsoft Internet Explorer, mailbox & identity passwords in lots of Microsoft versions. It as well supports the new security model employed by Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and 8.

Think it can be of any interest for you, please visit our site http://www.elcomsoft.com & learn more about EINPB at http://einpb.elcomsoft.com.

iOS 4 comes packed with a lot of nice features (long-awaited multitasking, background location services, iBooks and much improved Mail app  just to name a few) and we are very pleased to announce today the release of the new version of Elcomsoft iPhone Password Breaker with support for iTunes 9.2 and iOS 4.

Elcomsoft iPhone Password Breaker (or EPPB for short) is a utility to recover passwords for encrypted and password-protected iPhone/iPod/iPad backups created with iTunes (please note that it’s not meant to recover or remove passcode lock on the device).

With iOS 4 Apple has completely changed the way backups are encrypted and stored. Backup and restore processes are way much faster now. Apple have also improved protection against password recovery attacks, thus making our job harder (password recovery is about 5x slower for new backups than for older ones).

We at Elcomsoft try our best to keep up with the times, so most of our tools & programs are adjusted to the latest technologically advanced features. The EPPB is not an exception, new version of EPPB fully supports both old and new backup formats. It also supports hardware acceleration using NVIDIA and ATI GPUs and Tableau TACC1441.

As our previous survey went like a breeze (you will find the report in our archives), it is a logical next step that we decide to try one more time. From the very first survey we gained curious info, which was also interesting to publicity. Naturally questions about password protection are numerous and some of them remain dark, possibly a little too much so, that is why we are tempted to undertake one more “investigation”.

This time we expanded on questions and made some of them hypothetical, where you are put into a situation to find a way out. It is interesting to trace your way of thinking on both hypothetical and actual matters, so other questions are suggested to understand your attitude to real everyday situations you have to deal with.

As usually, survey completion will be finalized by a report.

We tried not to inundate our questionnaire with baffling questions, but if you still consider it time-consuming, you are welcome to answer one absurdly simple question on home page of ElcomSoft website.

C’mon you are within an ace of getting 10% discount for all our software; just find a little will-power to put a couple of ticks. Again, thank you for taking time from your busy day and completing our questionnaire.  And feel free to channel this survey to your friends and colleagues.

Best of luck!

The last, but not the least, we have found that EPPB can handle encrypted backups from Apple's newest tablet, iPad (thanks to Apple for using the same underlying technologies for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad).

P.S. If anyone's interested, we think that iPad is really cool gadget. It's not a substitute for a laptop, but it's great for catching on emails, surfing web, watching photos or videos or movies and for reading books. And multitouch on 10'' screen is awesome .

P.P.S. Yes, this blog post was originally created on iPad.

It was the third time we participated in Infosecurity Europe. The whole affair was in jeopardy due to volcanic ash paralyzing all major European airports but we did it. And everything went smoothly as planned.

We presented several latest developments at Infosecurity. First, two of our products, Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor and Elcomsoft iPhone Password Breaker, now support Tableau TACC1441.  These hardware accelerators are widely used in digital forensics to recover passwords and gather evidence from encrypted files. They consume considerably less power than GPUs and can be easily plugged and unplugged.

Second, the sales of Elcomsoft iPhone Password Breaker have started. The product is already quite popular and now it is finally out of beta. We expect it to gain even more popularity as it now supports Tableau as well as NVIDIA CUDA and ATI Stream acceleration technologies.

Quite often people ask us why we go to exhibitions and what benefits we see in such events. I’m not going to put any marketing or brand-awareness considerations into this post, although the visibility at major events is always a grand factor. For us as a company, the most important thing is that we can meet our customers in person at such global events as Infosecurity Europe. We get feedback from our customers by e-mail but personal feedback is a thing one could not underestimate.

 I would like to thank everyone who visited ElcomSoft’s stand at Infosecurity for your tips, ideas and feedback on our products. You could also send your suggestions to info at elcomsoft dot com. Tell us what we should improve or what features add.

And see you next year in London at the 16th Infosecurity Europe.

The pics will follow soon.

The city gave us a warm and sunny welcome, regarding its weather, so since the arrival we were filled with positive energy & cheerful mood. We were not only exhibiting, but delivering a presentation as well (however it had been cut in time because of the previous speaker). The exhibition/conference took part in the Military Museum of Istanbul, highly-protected military zone, so that to enter the exhibition area one should have all his belongings scanned. But it wasn’t that annoying, we respected local rules & policies (obedient guys).

Now, a few words about the conference itself. We arrived in Istanbul the day before the event in order to have time to see the city a bit and to organize our booth, want to notice that we were one of the first exhibitors to have our stand constructed in time, can’t resist praising ourselves in this respect .

The first day of the exhibition was busy: hundreds of visitors, most of them were really interested and were in the topic of the show, which was actually a surprising fact for us. The rest two days were not that lively, to say the least of it, only the most forensics-obsessed people sacrificed their weekend to visit the exhibition, hope, it came up to their expectations .

On the whole, it was worthwhile experiments for us, next year we think of having another go at it. Want to thank everybody who visited our booth & took interest in our software.

Below there are some photo materials from the show…

Me at the booth…

Guys saying "cheese " at the camera

Have add this pic at multiple requests…

Just a beautiful view of the city

In case you do not know, iTunes routinely makes backups of iPhones and iPods being synced to it. Such backups contain a plethora of information, essentially all user-generated data from the device in question. Contacts, calendar entries, call history, SMS, photos, emails, application data, notes and probably much more. Not surprisingly, such information manifests significant value for investigators. To make their job easier there are tools to read information out of iTunes backups, one example of such tool being Oxygen Forensic Suite (http://www.oxygen-forensic.com/). Such tools can not deal with encrypted backups, though.

Starting with iTunes 8.2 and iPhoneOS 3.0 (that is, June 2009) it became possible to protect iTunes backups with a password. After you specify protection password, no backup data leaves or enters device unencrypted. That is, contacts, emails, photos, etc. are encrypted on the device, transmitted encrypted over USB cable, and saved encrypted on hard disk. Apparently, such backups exhibit much less value for investigators.

This is where our tool comes into play. Given a password-protected backup, it can run various password recovery attacks, trying thousands passwords per second. Unquestionably, it supports multi-core CPUs, extended CPU instructions, and acceleration using GPU cards (only NVIDIA for the moment, ATI and friends coming in a month or two). Technologically, the product is pretty cool (and it’s going to become better).

However, this is an early beta and it obviously lacks some functionality. You cannot pause/resume recovery. You are limited to wordlist-based attacks only. It is no way bug-free and it will expire on March, 15 after all. Still, you are invited to give it a try. You can download it at http://www.elcomsoft.com/eppb-beta.html.

Please submit your feedback to iphone at elcomsoft.com or use "Help ➯ Send feedback…" menu command from within program itself. Bug reports are welcome, so are suggestions and feature requests. Top contributors will receive iTunes gift certificates, free software licenses and discounts.

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…

Andrew Belenko is making his speech on the opening day

Vladimir, Dmitry, Andrew and Yurii at Tian’anmen

Dmitry Sklyarov is lecturing… as always

Andrew, Vladimir and Sprite, cigarette-break

Guess what?

CCFC photo session

Sometimes it is like in a fairy tale

Dmitry, Vladimir and Andrew and the Great Wall of China

Would you like centipede?…

Wires again…

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.

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.

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