ElcomSoft enables forensic access to encrypted iPhone, iPod touch back-ups
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Feb 5, 2010 at 1:00am
ElcomSoft has released Elcomsoft iPhone Password Breaker, a GPU-accelerated password recovery tool to unlock encrypted iPhone and iPod touch backups.
For a limited time, the pre-release version of the new password recovery product is available free of charge. Elcomsoft iPhone Password Breaker grants forensic access to information stored in Apple devices by recovering password-protected backups to iPhone 2G, 3G, and 3GS as well as iPod touch (first through third generations). The new Elcomsoft password recovery tool works with offline backups, supports original and “jailbroken” devices, and doesn’t require iTunes to be installed.
Password-protected backups are protected with strong encryption algorithms. iPhone backups contain essential information about the use of the device, including phone books, call logs, SMS archives, calendars, camera snapshots, voice mail and email account settings, applications, Web browsing history and cache. In addition, iPhone 3G and 3GS store information about the latest GPS location of the device.
Equipped with advanced dictionary attacks and a wide range of permutations, Elcomsoft iPhone Password Breaker is the first commercially available forensic tool to grant access to protected information stored in Apple devices.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 10,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
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