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Downloading iOS 13 and iOS 14 iCloud Backups

The long-awaited update for Elcomsoft Phone Breaker has arrived. The update brought back the ability to download iCloud backups, which was sorely broken since recent server-side changes introduced by Apple. We are also excited to become the first forensic company to offer support for iCloud backups saved by iOS 14 beta devices, all while supporting the full spectrum of two-factor authentication methods. We are proud to provide the most comprehensive forensic support of Apple iCloud with unmatched performance, accelerating forensic investigations and providing access to critical evidence stored in the cloud.

👉https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/07/downloading-ios-13-and-ios-14-icloud-backups/

#iOS14 #iOS13 #iphone #smartphone #icloud #dataetraction #cloudsecurity #mobileforensics

Elcomsoft Phone Breaker 9.61 adds iOS 14 support, fixes iCloud backups

Elcomsoft Phone Breaker 9.61 adds support for cloud backups created with devices running the beta version of iOS 14. In addition, the update fixes access to iCloud backups created in iOS 12 and 13. Updating is strongly recommended for everyone requiring access to iCloud backups.

👉https://www.elcomsoft.com/news/755.html

#ios14 #icloud #iphone #mobilesecurity #dfir #cloudsecurity #dataextraction #forensics

checkra1n, USB Restrictions and Breaking Into Locked iPhones

The checkra1n jailbreak is fantastic. Not only does it work with the latest versions of iOS the other jailbreaks aren’t even available for, but it also allows performing partial data extraction from disabled and locked iPhones even if the passcode is not known. Still, you can encounter some problems if the USB restricted mode has been activated on the device. The latest build of chechra1n is to the rescue.

👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/07/checkra1n-usb-restrictions-and-breaking-into-locked-iphones/

Today is a memorable day for Elcomsoft! 19 years ago Elcomsoft employee, Dmitry Sklyarov, was put to jail for his research...

Read more in our retrospective article about those days!

Defending Americans’ Right to Decrypt

19 years ago, on July 16, 2001, the FBI arrested Dmitry Sklyarov, almost immediately after his speech at the DEF CON hacker conference, on a number of charges by Adobe. Dmitry was accused of many things, from software trafficking to conspiring with Elcomsoft and “third parties”, who put up the software for sale that could bypass technological protection on copyrighted material. Dmitry’s career at Elcomsoft began with a project on gaining access to protected Access databases. Soon, Dmitry got an idea about the security of PDF, and so he started working on it. From this idea the never-to-be-forgotten Advanced eBook Processor was born, because of which Dmitry was arrested in 2001 at DEF CON in Las Vegas, NV.

👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/07/defending-americans-right-to-decrypt/

checkra1n Installation Tips & Tricks

Having trouble installing the checkra1n jailbreak? If you do it right, you achieve a nearly 100% success rate. We have collected the most important information on how to install and troubleshoot the checkra1n jailbreak. By following these advises, you will be able to jailbreak like a pro, whether you just want to research your own device or perform the file system and keychain acquisition.

👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/07/checkra1n-installation-tips-tricks/

by Vladimir Katalov

#jb #checkra1n #jailbreak #iphone #ios #mobilesecurity #dfir #mobileforensics

Advanced Office Password Recovery 6.60 adds Hancom Office, iWork 2020 v10 support

Advanced Office Password Recovery (AOPR) adds support for the latest edition of Hancom Office 2020, now supporting Hancom documents saved in the new format. Version 6.60 offers full compatibility with Hancom Office Word 2020 documents and Cell 2020 workbooks, as well as the documents produced by iWork 2020.

👉 https://www.elcomsoft.com/news/754.html

#password #hancom #office #iwork #passwordprotection #cybersecurity #itsecurity #infosec

Elcomsoft Internet Password Breaker 3.20 extracts Yandex Browser, Tencent QQ and UC Browser passwords

Elcomsoft Internet Password Breaker 3.20 adds the ability to extract stored passwords from the newest versions of Yandex Browser, Tencent QQ and UC Browser. Yandex Browser is Russia’s second most popular desktop Web browser based on usage with some 17.2 per cent of the market, while QQ Browser in China floats around the 10% mark.

👉 https://www.elcomsoft.com/news/753.html

#browsers #password #passwordrecovery #tencent #qqbrowser #ucbrowser #cybersecurity #itsecurity #digitalforensics

Extracting Passwords from Tencent QQ Browser

QQ Browser is one of China’s most popular Web browsers. With some 10% of the Chinese market and the numerous Chinese users abroad, QQ Browser is used by the millions. Like many of its competitors, QQ Browser offers the ability to store website passwords. The passwords are securely encrypted, and can be only accessed once the user signs into their Windows account. Learn what you need to do to extract passwords from Tencent QQ Browser.

👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/07/extracting-passwords-from-tencent-qq-browser/

#browsers #password #passwordrecovery #tencent #qqbrowser #cybersecurity #itsecurity #digitalforensics

Extracting and Using Stored Passwords from Web Browsers

Breaking passwords becomes more difficult with every other update of popular software. Microsoft routinely bumps the number of hash iterations to make Office document protection coherent with current hardware. Apple uses excessive protection of iTunes backups since iOS 10.1, making brute force attacks a thing of the past. VeraCrypt and BitLocker were secure from the get go. However, everything is not lost if you consider human nature.

👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/07/extracting-and-using-stored-passwords-from-web-browsers/

#browsers #password #passwordrecovery #cybersecurity #itsecurity #digitalforensics

Elcomsoft System Recovery adds BitLocker support

We updated Elcomsoft System Recovery, a Windows PE-based tool to recover or reset passwords to local Windows accounts and Microsoft accounts in all versions of Windows. The tool adds native support for BitLocker volumes, enabling users to mount BitLocker-encrypted partitions using one of the three supported disk protectors.

📝 Release Notes

👉 https://www.elcomsoft.com/news/752.html

#bitlocker #password #recoverykey #usbkey #boot #encryption #fde #cybersecurity #itsecurity #computerforensics

Unlocking BitLocker Volumes by Booting from a USB Drive

BitLocker is Windows default solution for encrypting disk volumes. A large number of organizations protect startup disks with BitLocker encryption. While adding the necessary layer of security, BitLocker also has the potential of locking administrative access to the encrypted volumes if the original Windows logon password is lost. We are offering a straightforward solution for reinstating access to BitLocker-protected Windows systems with the help of a bootable USB drive.

👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/06/unlocking-bitlocker-volumes-by-booting-from-a-usb-drive/

#bitlocker #password #recoverykey #usbkey #boot #encryption #fde #cybersecurity #itsecurity #tpm

The Mysterious Apple DCSD Cable Demystified

A lot of people have asked me over the past couple of months – “What’s that cable on your desk, James?”. Today I’ll tell you all about it. Every accessory that connects to your iPhone via lightning is ‘flashed’ with an Accessory ID. The Accessory ID essentially identifies the device connected to the iPhone as a specific type. For example, a Lightning-To-Ethernet adapter will identify itself with it’s assigned Accessory ID so the iPhone knows how to treat the device and interact with it. It’s sort of like directing the iPhone to use a specific driver to interact with said device.

👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/06/the-mysterious-apple-dcsd-cable-demystified/

#ios #iphone #mobileforensics #itsecurity #dcsd #cybersecurity

iOS, watchOS and tvOS Acquisition Methods Compared: Compatibility Notes

How can you obtain the highest amount of data from an iPhone, iPad, Apple TV or Apple Watch? This is not as simple as it may seem. Multiple overlapping extraction methods exist, and some of them are limited to specific versions of the OS. Let’s go through them and summarize their availability and benefits.

👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/06/ios-watchos-and-tvos-acquisition-methods-compared-compatibility-notes/

#iOS #tvOS #watchOS #mobilesecurity #dfir #mobileforensics #cloud #keychain #dataaccess

iOS Extraction Without a Jailbreak: Full iOS 10 Support

One is hardly likely to encounter an iOS 10 in the wild, however forensic labs still process devices running the older version of the OS. In today's update of Elcomsoft iOS Forensic Toolkit, we’ve brought support for jailbreak-free extraction back to the roots, adding support for the oldest version of iOS capable of running on the iPhone 7 generation of devices.

Let’s see what it takes to extract an older iPhone without a jailbreak!

Keep reading: https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/06/ios-extraction-without-a-jailbreak-full-ios-10-support/

#ios10 #iphone7 #dfir #mobileforensics #datasecurity #infosec #extractionagent

iOS Forensic Toolkit 6.20: filling the gaps

Elcomsoft iOS Forensic Toolkit 6.20 fills the gaps for jailbreak-free extraction of previously unsupported versions of iOS. The new release expands the availability of the extraction agent all the way back to the original iOS 10.0, while adding compatibility for previously unsupported versions of iOS 12 on the iPhone 5s and 6.

👉 https://www.elcomsoft.com/news/751.html

📝 Get Release Notes in PDF

#eift #mobileforensics #dfir #keychain #filesystem #iphone #dataextraction #ios

Jailbreaking Apple TV 4K

Is jailbreaking an Apple TV worth it? If you are working in the forensics, it definitely is. When connected to the user’s Apple account with full iCloud access, the Apple TV synchronizes a lot of data. That data may contain important evidence, and sometimes may even help access other iCloud data. I have some great news for the forensic crowd: the Apple TV does not have a passcode. And some bad news: jailbreaking is not as easy and straightforward as we’d like it to be. Let’s have a look at what can be done.

The hidden Lightning port

Big surprise: the Apple TV 4K does have the port for wired connections, and the port is…

👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/06/jailbreaking-apple-tv-4k/

#ios #appletv #checkra1n #jailbreak #iosforensics #dfir

iCloud Extraction Streamlined

Apple iCloud contains massive amounts of data, which may become highly valuable evidence. The oldest and most frequently mentioned are iCloud backups, which ElcomSoft were the first to extract back in 2012. A lot has changed since then. Today, iCloud backups account for a very minor part of the evidence available in iCloud. Learn what types of data are stored in iCloud, how Apple protects the data with end-to-end encryption, and how to access that valuable evidence with the updated Elcomsoft Phone Breaker.

👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/06/icloud-extraction-streamlined/

#ios #iphone #sync #backup #icloud #2fa #cloud #dataextraction

ElcomSoft Phone Breaker 9.60 and Elcomsoft Phone Viewer 5.10 streamline iCloud data analysis

Elcomsoft Phone Breaker 9.60 streamlines access to iCloud data, breaking down the 17 types of iCloud synced data, the content of iCloud Drive and iCloud backups, into three large groups. By accessing the categories via three distinct groups, experts will be able to save time by analyzing the available information faster.

👉 https://www.elcomsoft.com/news/750.html

#ios #iphone #cloud #mobilesecurity #mobileforensics #keychain #cybersecurity #itsecurity

iCloud Backups, Synced Data and End-to-End Encryption

Initially, iCloud backups were similar in content to local (iTunes) backups without the password. However, the introduction of iCloud sync has changed the rules of the game. With more types of data synchronized through iCloud as opposed to being backed up, the content of iCloud backups gets slimmed down as synchronized information is excluded from cloud backups, though still present in local backups.

Two-factor authentication (or lack thereof) affects what can and what cannot be synchronized. Sounds confusing? Let’s shed some light on the types of data that might be available in iCloud backups and how they are affected by the optional data sync.

👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/06/icloud-backups-synced-data-and-end-to-end-encryption/

#ios #iphone #sync #backup #icloud #2fa #cloud

Demystifying iOS Data Security

Today, James Duffy, a security researcher and developer, is our guest in Elcomsoft Blog.

“Recently I’ve been sent over a few questions from members of the community, such as “Why can’t we decrypt the data from a disabled iPhone over SSH if we know the passcode?” and “I tried to SCP a file from the device to the Mac, but getting permission errors”. Today I’m going to answer these questions in a Q&A format for you all so hopefully we can shed some light on how this works! The article is aimed to be accessible for everybody, including beginners and non-technical users. Without further ado…”

👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/06/demystifying-ios-data-security/

#ios #iphone #mobilesecurity #mobileforensics #cybersec #smartphone #encryption