Passware Kit Mobile 2025 v1 Now Available

November 26, 2024 Product Update

Passware introduces its latest distributed password recovery feature, integrated with the Resource Manager, for Passware Kit Mobile users.

Passware Kit 2024 v4 Now Available

October 10, 2024 Product Update

Passware introduces a new decryption option for Lenovo ThinkPad laptops protected by BitLocker and TPM 2.0.

New Articles on the Passware Knowledge Base – Revision 2024

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.

Passware Kit Mobile 2024 v3 Now Available

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.

Passware Kit Ultimate – Air-Gapped Edition

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.

Effortless Management of a Password Recovery Cluster

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.

Passware Kit 2024 v3 Now Available

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.

Passware Kit Mobile 2024 v2 Now Available

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.

Passware Kit 2024 v2 Now Available

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.

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.

Passware Kit 2024 v1 Now Available

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.

Passware Kit Mobile 2024 v1 Now Available

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.

New In Passware Kit 12.5

May 15, 2013 Product Update

Passware Kit 12.5 Finds Encrypted Disks, Improves AMD Acceleration, and Analyzes Windows 8 Hibernation Files

Encrypted volumes and hard disk images are detected during a computer scan
Unprotected files are created automatically for batch processes
Hardware acceleration: AMD ATI cards are now supported for MS Office 2013, Zip, and Apple iTunes password recovery
Memory analysis: Passwords are extracted from Windows 8 hibernation files
Password recovery for MS Outlook 2013 and Peachtree 2013

New: Encrypted volumes and hard disk images are detected during a computer scan

Passware Kit scans computers and networks, finding all the password-protected and encrypted files. The new version also detects encrypted volumes and hard disk images, such as BitLocker, TrueCrypt, PGP, and others.

To decrypt a detected disk image, choose a memory analysis, hibernation file analysis, or a brute-force password recovery method. Learn more about hard disk decryption options.

NOTE: This feature is available in Forensic edition only.

New: Unprotected files are created automatically for batch processes

Passware Kit 12.5 includes an option to create unprotected files automatically when a password is recovered or reset. When batch file processing is complete, unprotected copies of the files are saved in a single folder. Supported file types: MS Office, Zip, FileMaker, SQL, MYOB, and QuickBooks.

New: AMD ATI cards are now supported for MS Office 2013, Zip, and Apple iTunes password recovery

NVIDIA and AMD ATI graphic cards are used to accelerate the password recovery processes. Passware Kit now supports ATI cards to speed up password recovery for MS Office 2007-2013 documents, Zip and Rar archives, Mac keychain files, Apple DMG images, and iTunes backups. With the latest series of the AMD cards, i.e., Radeon 7, the password recovery process is up to 30 times faster and can be further accelerated with Distributed Password Recovery.

Learn more about hardware acceleration.

New: Passwords extraction from Windows 8 hibernation files

Passware Kit analyzes system hibernation files (hiberfil.sys) and extracts encryption keys for BitLocker, TrueCrypt, PGP, as well as passwords for websites, Windows users and MS Office files. The new version now supports hibernation files from Windows 8.

NOTE: This feature is available in Enterprise and Forensic editions only.

New: Password recovery for MS Outlook 2013 and Peachtree 2013

Passware Kit now instantly recovers passwords for MS Outlook v.2013 (MS Office 15) email accounts, PST files, as well as instantly decrypts Peachtree Complete Accounting v.2013 databases.