September 15, 2022 How-To
A password manager app, besides passwords, can contain additional data sources, emails, connections, online banking details, and even documents. This data is very appealing to computer forensics. Let’s take a closer look into the password managers, their versions, and how difficult it is to break into them.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
November 24, 2020 How-To
An examiner can use a set of external registry hives and user profile files acquired from the target computer or its disk image for password recovery and electronic evidence discovery.
June 22, 2020 How-To
VeraCrypt and former TrueCrypt are two of the most challenging types of encryption to bypass with regard to their popularity as full disk encryption software.
December 03, 2019 Research
The Passware team has analyzed over 4 billion real user passwords and gathered data on the latest trends on password use. About the Research As sources of passwords, we have merged leaked passwords databases available over the internet, passwords recovered by our software, and passwords uploaded to our Password Exchange server into a single database. […]
August 19, 2019 How-To
Did you know that Passware Kit can create a snapshot of a password recovery process at any time and resume it on a different computer? Running a password recovery attack, especially for multiple files or drives, might be a long process that requires a lot of hardware resources. In some cases, it might be necessary […]
June 07, 2019 How-To
Decrypting BitLocker volumes or images is challenging due to the various encryption options offered by BitLocker that require different information for decryption. This article explains BitLocker protectors and talks about the best ways to get the data decrypted, even for computers that are turned off. BitLocker Encryption Options Protectors that can be used to encrypt […]
October 31, 2018 How-To
Passware offers a free tool, Encryption Analyzer, that scans computers and network drives, finds encrypted files and hard disk images, and lists them along with other related information, such as encryption type, password recovery complexity, and MD5 hash. This module is also integrated into all editions of Passware Kit to allow for immediate decryption of […]
