Extracting and Analyzing Apple sysdiagnose Logs
June 27th, 2025 by Oleg Afonin
Apple’s unified logging system offers a wealth of information for forensic investigators analyzing iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and other devices from Apple ecosystems. Originally designed for debugging and diagnostics, these logs capture a continuous stream of detailed system activity – including app behavior, biometric events, power state changes, and connectivity transitions. In digital forensics, where traditional sources of evidence like backups or app data may be encrypted or inaccessible, the logs provide an alternative and often untapped reservoir of forensic artifacts. This article explores the content, availability, and forensic value of Apple logs collected via sysdiagnose across different device types, focusing on practical methods for extraction and analysis using modern forensic tools.
EuroForensics Conference 2011
April 6th, 2011 by Olga Koksharova
So we are back again from EuroForensics Conference which took place in Istanbul a week ago, and it feels everything went fantastic. All preparations were quick and painless (our special regards to Kaukab Jamal ZUBERI, Bilal YILMAZ, Meryem Parlak, Canan Tas and the whole team of Forensic People), the event went smoothly with a marked emphasis on the first day, when we were almost stunned by crowds of computer forensic specialists, military people in uniform, government and other security researchers (I personally have never seen so many officials at one place before).
ElcomSoft Opens a Password Store to Sell Passwords Balancing Strength and Memorability
April 1st, 2011 by Olga Koksharova
Great news, ElcomSoft starts Elcomsoft Password Store, an online service to supply customers with guaranteed secure passwords. The new Password Store provides customers a variety of selections, and complies with all industrial and government requirements regarding the length and complexity of passwords being sold. As a value-added service, the company offers near-instant recovery of all passwords sold through its Password Store for a nominal fee.
Cracking BlackBerry backups is now slower… but still possible, thx to GPU acceleration
December 24th, 2010 by Vladimir Katalov
If you have read our recent Cracking BlackBerry Backup Passwords article, you should be familiar with encryption implemented in BlackBerry Desktop Software. Just reminding:
BlackBerry password cracking: multi-threaded, with hardware-accelerated AES
December 9th, 2010 by Vladimir Katalov
Most modern CPUs are multi-core – it is not easy to find even a laptop with less than two cores these days. And for desktops, 4 cores are usual now.
Canon cannot or mustn’t provide image validation feature?
November 30th, 2010 by Olga Koksharova
A true security system cannot be so fragile: Canon Original Data Security broken…
Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Chrome Passwords Cracked
November 11th, 2010 by Olga Koksharova
What is a Web browser for you? It’s virtually a whole world, all together: web sites, blogging, photo and video sharing, social networks, instant messaging, shopping… did I forget anything? Oh yes, logins and passwords. 🙂 Set an account here, sign in there, register here and sing up there – everywhere you need logins and passwords to confirm your identity.
Hacking For Dummies, 3rd Edition by Kevin Beaver
November 2nd, 2010 by Olga Koksharova
Although this new book is on sale from January this year, we are happy to officially say our words of gratitude to Kevin Beaver and advise it to you.
Smartphone Forensics: Cracking BlackBerry Backup Passwords
September 30th, 2010 by Vladimir Katalov
BlackBerry dominates the North American smartphone market, enjoying almost 40 per cent market share. A 20 per cent worldwide market share isn’t exactly a bad thing, too. The total subscriber base for the BlackBerry platform is more than 50 million users.
Mind your passwords, make them different
September 17th, 2010 by Olga Koksharova
XKCD posted quite nice comics with a reallife problem behind them. It is very likely that some Web-services do as described, either sell such info to third parties or use it for evil purposes. Our recommendation is if you cannot trust some of the websites, choose another unique password for them. It would be even wiser if you had different passwords for all websites you visit. Some even unimportant websites can aslo be cracked and even if they (better to say your data stored there) have no value at all, your password, can be tried for Facebook or LinkedIn, hopefully in vain.
