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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We are using longer and more complex passwords to protect our accounts. Hence, keeping track of numerous password combinations has become a task on its own. That is why more and more people are turning to password managers. Be it a free open-source tool or a commercial security architecture, many of us are using them to store our sensitive data.
1Password is one of the most secure and widely used commercial password managers developed for all popular platforms: Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, and Android. Passware Kit supports all versions of 1Password including v8 for all the platforms, with some limitations.* Besides the GPU-accelerated brute-force recovery of a master password, Passware Kit is also capable of acquiring it from a live memory image for the standalone 1Password for Mac. In some cases, Passware Kit Mobile can decrypt a 1Password database instantly.
In December 2012, AgileBits introduced the OPVault format to replace the outdated Agile Keychain format. The OPVault is now the default format for syncing with iCloud and Dropbox. Passware Kit supports both OPVault and Agile Keychain vaults, as well as the Online database format used in the browser versions of 1Password.
Starting from 2023 v3, Passware Kit supports KeePass Professional 2.x databases encrypted using key files. The decryption is possible for databases protected with both password and key files or key files only. In addition to the password recovery, Passware Kit detects the key files with the *.keyx extension on a computer under investigation.
The GPU acceleration on both NVIDIA and AMD is supported for all versions of KeePass, with the exception of databases encrypted using the Argon2 key derivation function. It reaches up to 30,000 passwords per second on NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti for a database with a single key file and 435,000 passwords per second for KeePass v.2 without key files.
LastPass is a freemium password manager that stores encrypted passwords online. It is available as an extension to web browsers, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Microsoft Edge, Vivaldi, and Opera.
Passware Kit supports both Desktop and Browser Extension versions of Dashlane. Depending on the encryption algorithm, it can utilize GPU to accelerate the password recovery. Passware Kit Mobile (starting from the upcoming version 2022 v4) is capable of extracting records from iOS and Android versions of Dashlane. The table below summarizes the supported versions and encryption types.
Apple stores iPhone, iPad, and iPod backups in an iTunes backup file on both Windows and Mac devices. An iTunes backup typically consists of multiple files and folders, however Passware Kit only needs a Manifest.plist file to initiate a password recovery for the backup.
We hope you found this quick analysis useful. Password managers are supported in the Standard Plus, Business, and Forensic editions of Passware Kit. Mobile versions of password managers and decryption of iOS Keychain are supported in Passware Kit Mobile only.
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