Passware Kit 2025 v1 Now Available
December 17, 2024 Product Update
Passware Kit 2025 v1 decrypts the latest versions of VeraCrypt, adds support for WD My Book, WD My Passport 2024, and Lenovo ThinkPad E series devices.
December 17, 2024 Product Update
Passware Kit 2025 v1 decrypts the latest versions of VeraCrypt, adds support for WD My Book, WD My Passport 2024, and Lenovo ThinkPad E series devices.
November 26, 2024 Product Update
Passware introduces its latest distributed password recovery feature, integrated with the Resource Manager, for Passware Kit Mobile users.
October 10, 2024 Product Update
Passware introduces a new decryption option for Lenovo ThinkPad laptops protected by BitLocker and TPM 2.0.
October 01, 2024 How-To
To stay current and make the most of Passware Kit’s latest features, take a look at some of the articles we have added or revised over the past year.
September 03, 2024 Product Update
Passware Kit Mobile 2024v3 enables investigators to uncover all Second Space accounts and access the corresponding application credentials and other data.
August 20, 2024 Product Update
Passware Kit Ultimate – Air-Gapped Edition enables investigators to access data from locked mobile devices, computers, encrypted disks, and files – all with a single license, and in environments without Internet access.
August 01, 2024 How-To
Handling encrypted items in a forensic case, especially with Full Disk Encryption (FDE) images and archives, requires significant computational resources. This task is impossible without relying on network-distributed, hardware-accelerated decryption.
June 25, 2024 Product Update
Passware Kit 2024 v3 introduces a SanDisk decryption option that facilitates the workflow with encrypted USB drives for forensic professionals. It recovers passwords for PrivateAccess, SecureAccess, and ENC vaults at high speeds.
May 28, 2024 Product Update
Passware introduces GPU-accelerated passcode recovery and data extraction for Unisoc- based smartphones. This update supports over 170 models from various manufacturers.
April 04, 2024 Product Update
Passware Kit introduces a built-in resource management tool that allows forensic examiners to easily configure, manage, and monitor a cluster of Passware Kit Agents. The device decryption functionality has been expanded, offering the capability to recover passwords for and decrypt a wider range of Western Digital My Passport drives.
February 15, 2024 How-To
This article provides comprehensive insights into Apple native encryption, covering both software and hardware-based levels.
December 14, 2023 Product Update
Introducing the redesigned Distributed Password Recovery, which empowers users to remotely control all the Passware Kit Agents within their network directly from the PKF. Multiple password recovery attacks are now run simultaneously, reducing the GPU idle time.
March 08, 2022 How-To
When it comes to the forensic investigation of Apple devices, a Keychain analysis is of particular importance. Not only does Keychain contain passwords from websites and applications, but it can also provide computer forensics with access to the same user’s other Apple devices.
December 15, 2021 Product Update
Passware Kit 2022 v1 fully supports the latest OS releases: Windows 11 and macOS Monterey. We are continually expanding the range of file types and applications that Passware Kit supports. The new version introduces GPU-accelerated password recovery for Acronis backups.
October 21, 2021 Product Update
Passware makes it easy to handle cases with multiple encrypted disks by introducing batch mode for FDE images. It allows users to configure password recovery settings for the encrypted images and processes them one by one without user interaction. AFF4 is also supported. Passware Kit will automatically send an email whenever a password is found or the recovery process gets finished.
July 28, 2021 News
Our team has worked hard to build the next generation of decryption solutions for mobile devices – Passware Kit Mobile. We put together a short 4-minute video to summarize the key features and licensing options of the product.
July 13, 2021 How-To
Did you know that we upload technical articles and useful tips to our Knowledge Base on a regular basis? For the last 12 months, we have added a dozen new articles to the database.
June 30, 2021 Product Update
We announced a Beta version of Passware Kit Forensic for Mac in 2020. Thanks to the feedback we received from our beta testers, we were able to resolve stability, performance, and compatibility issues. Now, we are proud to announce the release version of the Passware Kit Forensic for Mac!
June 16, 2021 How-To
No one can imagine an effective password recovery process without GPU acceleration. The race between AMD and NVIDIA GPU rages on, so the question “Which is best for password recovery?” arises with every single release of a new GPU generation.
June 9, 2021 Online
Join us on June 9 at 11 AM Swiss Time (GMT+2) for the online session with Toni Pärn. We will share the latest methods of evidence discovery and decryption and go through the new features of Passware Kit.
April 14, 2021 Product Update
Dell Data Protection and Dell Encryption software used to be an obstacle for computer forensics because the encrypted data was inaccessible while processing an image of encrypted drives. We are happy to announce that Passware Kit is the first software to recover passwords for Dell recovery files and decrypt data from disks encrypted with Dell Data Protection and Dell Encryption software provided that a Dell recovery file is available.
March 04, 2021 How-To
Memory analysis is an essential part of digital forensic investigations. A memory image can contain passwords and encryption keys that allow computer forensics to access encrypted hard drives, files, emails, and other electronic evidence. However, to preserve this data in the memory image, it’s required to use forensically sound memory acquisition practices.
December 28, 2020 News
We put together a short video on the key improvements of Passware Kit Forensic 2021 v1.
December 18, 2020 News
We were anxious to run Passware Kit Forensic benchmarks to see if we could see a 2x gain in performance compared to the 2000 series.