I’ve just returned from REcon 2013 held in Montreal, where I talked about breaking iCloud services (everyone: the slides from that presentation are available right here, and the organizers promised a video soon). I spoke about WHY breaking the iCloud, HOW we did it and WHO can use it. I can briefly stop here, and elaborate the points.

The CEIC 2013 conference is over. We were happy to connect with our partners and customers at our booth during the show hours. We’d like to thank everyone who stopped by, and give our special thanks to those providing valuable feedback and suggestion on our products. (To those who wanted to see our tools settled under a single roof: we’re working on it!)

It’s been a while since we released the new version of Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker that allows downloading backups from iCloud (read the press release). Many customers all over the world are already using this new feature intensively, but we still get many questions about its benefits, examples of cases when it can be used and how to use it properly. We also noticed many ironic comments in different forums (mostly from users without any experience in using iOS devices and so have no idea what iCloud backups actually are, I guess), saying that there is nothing really new or interesting there, because anyone with Apple ID and password can access the data stored in iCloud backup anyway.

Major security breaches occur in quick succession one after another. Is it a chain reaction? How do we stop it?

A few days ago, we received the following communication from an obsessed password researcher and our long-standing friend (quoted with his permission):

BitLocker, PGP and TrueCrypt set industry standard in the area of whole-disk and partition encryption. All three tools provide strong, reliable protection, and offer a perfect implementation of strong crypto.