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.
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.
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.
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.
June 01, 2016 Product Update
Passware Kit 2016 v.3 Recovers passwords for iWork documents, decrypts FileVault2 instantly using iCloud recovery key, acquires iCloud token from standalone systems What’s New Password recovery for iWork documents FileVault2 decryption using iCloud recovery key iCloud token acquisition from standalone systems Distributed Password Recovery improvements Password recovery for iWork documents Passware Kit now recovers […]
February 29, 2016 Product Update
Passware Kit 2016 v.2 Acquires Data From iCloud Drive, Is Up To 120% Faster On GPU, Enables Automatic Software Updates without User Interaction Data acquisition from iCloud Drive Password recovery for iOS 9 backups Distributed Password Recovery improvements GPU acceleration improvements Automatic updates without user interaction Data acquisition from iCloud Drive Passware Kit acquires iOS […]
March 24, 2015 Product Update
Passware Kit 2015 v.2 Acquires iCloud Photo Stream, Decrypts Hidden TrueCrypt, and Offers Automatic Software Updates Acquisition of iCloud Photo Stream via live memory analysis Hardware accelerated password recovery for hidden TrueCrypt containers Automatic software updates Improved performance of Passware Kit Agent for Linux Decryption of FileVault 2 from Mac OS X Yosemite Passwords extraction […]