Passware at Digital Forensics & Cybersecurity Congress 2020

Extracting Passwords from the Acquired Windows Registry

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.

What’s New video on Passware Kit Forensic 2020 v4 release

November 20, 2020 News

We put together a short video on the key improvements of Passware Kit Forensic 2020 v4.

Passware Kit 2020 v4 Now Available

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.

Updated Quick Start Guide

August 20, 2020 News

We made some major updates to our Quick Start Guide making sure it covers the most relevant tasks in electronic evidence discovery and decryption. New product screenshots with step-by-step guides will simplify your training. The guide walks you through the following tasks: Detecting encrypted files and containers Recovering a file password Using the Dictionary Manager […]

New video now available in Passware online academy

August 18, 2020 News

Have you considered learning more about batch recovery and dictionary manager? We just added a new training session to Passware Certified Examiner Training. The 30-minute video tutorial walks you through the following topics: Why use batch recovery Adding files and creating groups for batch recovery Sorting password recovery settings by complexity Attack and timeout settings […]

Video on Passware Kit Forensic new features in 2020

August 13, 2020 News

Despite this year’s uneasy global events, our team has stayed focused on making Passware products even better and easy to use. To give you a brief overview of all the important updates to Passware products in 2020, we put together a short video.

Passware Kit 2020 v3 Now Available

July 14, 2020 Product Update

VeraCrypt and TrueCrypt continue to be two of the most complex types of encryption to bypass. Both tools provide an option to use keyfiles for encrypting volumes.

Tips for Efficient TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt Decryption

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.

Passware Kit 2020 v2 Now Available

April 07, 2020 Product Update

Apple takes privacy, security, and encryption very seriously. While the latest improvements in macOS and iOS security help users to keep their data safe, they also create additional challenges for forensic examiners. All the latest Apple computers are protected with the Apple T2 Chip that provides an additional layer of hardware-based encryption, making it difficult […]

Passware Kit 2020 v1 Now Available

December 18, 2019 Product Update

Passware Kit 2020 v1 introduces a built-in Dictionary Manager, support for VeraCrypt GPT system encryption, and optimized decryption process for hard drives. The new version also extracts passwords from Windows 10/8 standalone systems protected with Windows Hello: PIN and Picture password. Decryptum™ Password Recovery In partnership with Comino we have developed Decryptum – ultra-compact liquid-cooled […]

Password Trends

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. […]

Passware Partners with BlackBag Technologies

November 19, 2019 News

Passware announces a new strategic partnership with the leading developer of forensic acquisition and analysis tools – BlackBag Technologies to provide full disk decryption in a new BlackLight release. Passware, the leading expert in encrypted electronic evidence discovery and decryption, announced a partnership with BlackBag Technologies ahead of their upcoming release of BlackLight. BlackLight quickly […]