From FileVault to T2: How to Deal with Native Apple Encryption
February 15, 2024 How-To
This article provides comprehensive insights into Apple native encryption, covering both software and hardware-based levels.
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.
December 05, 2023 Product Update
Passware Kit Mobile 2024 v1 has expanded its capabilities by introducing password recovery and data extraction for Samsung MediaTek-based devices, in addition to the Exynos and Qualcomm-based devices announced previously.
October 31, 2023 Product Update
Users are invited to complete the all-new Passware Certified Examiner Training, a comprehensive online education course. The new training comprises 16 entirely redesigned video sessions, each lasting up to 35 minutes. These sessions address the essential decryption tasks computer forensic experts may encounter and cover key capabilities of Passware Kit Forensic.
October 19, 2023 Product Update
Passware introduces Device Decryption Add-on — a specialized solution designed for decrypting Western Digital My Passport drives and Macs equipped with Apple T2 Security Chips. Passware Kit 2023 v4 also features instant recovery of Wi-Fi passwords and extraction of network credentials from the standalone Windows “Users” and “Config” folders.
October 04, 2023 Product Update
Passware Kit Mobile introduces a multi-window mode that enables simultaneous passcode recovery, decryption, and data extraction for multiple mobile devices, making this tool an ideal solution for addressing a backlog of cases that involve locked mobile devices.
July 11, 2023 Product Update
Passware Kit 2023 v3 enables users to unlock encrypted Apple Notes. It detects Apple Notes SQLite databases and recovers passwords with GPU acceleration. It also adds support for the latest version of KeePass, including databases protected with key files, and it instantly unlocks AxCrypt files using the password recovered for AxCrypt private key.
June 22, 2023 Product Update
PKM 2023 v4 is the first and only forensic software in its class that unlocks and extracts data from Qualcomm-based mobile devices with SDM845, SDM710, and SDM712 chipsets. It also presents an option to send email notifications that keep you informed about the results of your passcode recovery tasks.
May 04, 2023 Product Update
PKM 2023 v3 introduces GPU-accelerated password recovery option for Oppo and Vivo devices. It adds support for 180+ LG, Xiaomi, Motorola, Nokia, and other MediaTek-based smartphones and overall supports 490+ mobile devices.
April 04, 2023 Product Update
Passware Kit 2023 v2 introduces an option to detect and decrypt containers encrypted with Steganos. It also increases the chances of successful password recovery for VeraCrypt drives by recovering their Personal Iterations Multiplier (PIM) parameters. Last but not least, it bypasses Mac EFI firmware passwords and adds support for mounted physical drives.
February 21, 2023 Product Update
Passware Kit Mobile 2023 v2 introduces GPU-accelerated password recovery option for Xiaomi and Huawei MediaTek-based smartphones. It now supports 300+ mobile devices overall! Apple device decryption has become more stable and is now supported for devices with iOS 15.7-16.3.
December 14, 2022 Product Update
Passware Kit 2023 v1 simplifies the configuration of multiple disks decryption by introducing group settings for decrypting disk images in batch mode. The new version also supports AxCrypt files and instantly decrypts the latest versions of VeraCrypt using the improved memory analysis option.
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.
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.
December 16, 2020 Product Update
Memory analysis is an essential method of electronic evidence discovery. It allows computer forensics to decrypt hard disks and files and extract encryption keys and passwords. We are proud to introduce Passware Bootable Memory Imager – a new UEFI compatible tool that acquires memory images of Windows, Linux, and Mac computers.
December 01, 2020 News
Passware announces a new strategic partnership with the developer of digital forensic software – Belkasoft to provide full disk decryption.
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.
November 20, 2020 News
We put together a short video on the key improvements of Passware Kit Forensic 2020 v4.
October 14, 2020 Product Update
The brute-force approach is the most time-consuming password recovery method. We are proud to share that we have introduced Mask attack that significantly reduces the time spent on password recovery by skipping unnecessary character combinations.