Posts Tagged ‘Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker’
Monday, February 25th, 2013
It’s been a while since we released the new version of Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker that allows downloading backups from iCloud (read the press release). Many customers all over the world are already using this new feature intensively, but we still get many questions about its benefits, examples of cases when it can be used and how to use it properly. We also noticed many ironic comments in different forums (mostly from users without any experience in using iOS devices and so have no idea what iCloud backups actually are, I guess), saying that there is nothing really new or interesting there, because anyone with Apple ID and password can access the data stored in iCloud backup anyway.
Well, it seems some further explanation is needed. If you are already using EPPB (and this feature in particular) you will find some useful tips for future interaction with iCloud, or even if you don’t have an iOS device (you loser! just kidding 
) please go ahead and learn how iCloud can be helpful and dangerous at the same time. (more…)
Tags: Apple, backup, Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker, EPPB, iCloud
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Thursday, February 21st, 2013
Apple iCloud is a popular service providing Apple users the much needed backup storage space. Using the iCloud is so simple and unobtrusive that more than 190 million customers (as of November, 2012) are using the service on regular basis.
Little do they know. The service opens governments a back door for spying on iOS users without them even knowing. ElcomSoft researchers discovered that information stored in the iCloud can be retrieved by anyone without having access to a physical device, provided that the original Apple ID and password are known. The company even built the technology for accessing this information in one of its mobile forensic products, Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker, allowing investigators accessing backup copies of the phone’s content via iCloud services.
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Tags: Apple, Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker, iCloud, iPhone
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
It’s been almost two weeks since we have released updated version of Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker that is capable of downloading backups from the iCloud and we have seen very diverse feedback ever since. Reading through some articles or forum threads it became quite evident that many just do not understand what we have actually done and what are the implications. So I am taking another try to clarify things.
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Tags: Apple, backup, Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker, EPPB, iCloud, iOS
Posted in Cryptography, General, Security, Software | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker and Elcomsoft iOS Forensic Toolkit have been around for a while, acquiring user information from physical iPhone/iPad devices or recovering data from user-created offline backups. Both tools required the investigator to have access to the device itself, or at least accessing a PC with which the iOS device was synced at least once. This limited the tools’ applications to solving the already committed crime, but did little to prevent crime that’s just being planned.
The new addition to the family of iOS acquisition tools turns things upside down. Meet updated Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker – a tool that can now retrieve information from suspects’ phones without them even noticing. The newly introduced attack does not need investigators to have access to the phone itself. It doesn’t even require access to offline backups produced by that phone. Instead, the new attack targets an online, remote storage provided by Apple. By attacking a remote storage, the updated tool makes it possible watching suspects’ iPhone activities with little delay and without alerting the suspects. In fact, the tool can retrieve information from the online storage without iPhone users even knowing, or having a chance to learn about the unusual activity on their account. (more…)
Tags: Apple, backup, Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker, EPPB, iCloud, storage
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Thursday, December 15th, 2011
Dear friends,
It really takes willpower to control our excitement about the surprises we prepared for you these pre-holiday days. We arranged three ultra-appealing bundles and we can’t hide them any loger, so here they are:
1. EPPB + EBBE = take two at the price of one!
2. EPPB + EBBE + EIFT = get EBBE & EPPB for free!
3. EPRB Forensic = special NY 2012 price! (twice less!!)
Check out more info on our website:
http://www.elcomsoft.com/happy-new-year-2012.html
Experience Elcomsoft Password Recovery Bundle which breaks all barriers, twice cheaper throughout December 2011. There is no substitute.
Don’t rush, take your time… till December 31. 
Tags: Elcomsoft Blackberry Backup Explorer, Elcomsoft iOS Forensic Toolkit, Elcomsoft Password Recovery Bundle, Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker
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Thursday, September 29th, 2011
Less than a month ago, we updated our Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker tool with the ability to recover master passwords for BlackBerry Password Keeper and BlackBerry Wallet. I have blogged about that and promised the “next big thing” for BlackBerry forensics to be coming soon. The day arrived.
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Tags: BlackBerry, BlackBerry Password, Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker, EPPB
Posted in Cryptography, Elcom-News, General, Security, Software | 26 Comments »
Monday, August 15th, 2011
SANS Information Security Reading Room has recently publicized a whitepaper about iOS security where they mentioned our software – Elcomsoft iOS Forensic Toolkit – in a section about encryption. Kiel Thomas, the author of the whitepaper, explained one more time the main principles of iOS 4 encryption, which became stronger in comparison with iOS 3.x and how our toolkit can bypass new strong algorithms.
In its next part about iTunes Backups Kiel touches upon Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker which virtually crunches backup passwords at speed of 35000 passwords per second (with AMD Radeon HD 5970) using both brute force and dictionary attacks, here are some benchmarks.
It seems the paper does not miss out on any nuance about iOS 4 and provides practical advice to either avoid or prevent from the depressing outcomes, such as loss of data. Closer to the end of the paper you will also find several sagacious tips for using the devices within organizations, including passcode management, a so called “first line of defense” which according Kiel’s view “can be matched to existing password policies”, however he inclines to use passwords instead of 4 digit passcodes.
And in conclusion the author discovers that smartphone and tablet security measurements resemble the ones of laptops, because they all belong to mobile devices. Find out more details in the source itself: http://www.sans.org/reading_room/whitepapers/pda/security-implications-ios_33724
Tags: Elcomsoft iOS Forensic Toolkit, Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker, iOS, iOS Forensic Toolkit, passcode, SANS
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Friday, May 20th, 2011
Despite the fact that iPhone and Android keep on biting off greater parts of smartphone market, BlackBerry fans are still there, in spite of its various peculiarities. I won’t compare multi-touch displays, HD cameras, smart sensors, applications or anything like that. I’d rather talk about BlackBerry Desktop Software. Yes, it can create backups, restore information from backups, and synchronize with Outlook only, period. But that’s just not enough… (more…)
Tags: backup, BlackBerry, EBBE, Elcomsoft Blackberry Backup Explorer, Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker, EPPB, IPD
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Friday, December 24th, 2010
If you have read our recent Cracking BlackBerry Backup Passwords article, you should be familiar with encryption implemented in BlackBerry Desktop Software. Just reminding:
In short, standard key-derivation function, PBKDF2, is used in a very strange way, to say the least. Where Apple has used 2’000 iterations in iOS 3.x, and 10’000 iterations in iOS 4.x, BlackBerry uses only one.
So password verification is (was) so fast/simple that we did not care about implementing it on the GPU — modern CPU is able to crack almost 8 million passwords per second (thanks to multi-threading and AES-NI). We would not call that the vulnerability, but still the weak link.
But new versions of BlackBerry Desktop Software have been released reсently (6.0 for Windows and 2.0 for Mac). And as always, there are bad news and there are good news.
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Tags: BlackBerry, Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker, EPPB, GPU acceleration, PBKDF2, Vulnerability
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