What TRIM, DRAT, and DZAT Really Mean for SSD Forensics
June 2nd, 2025 by Oleg Afonin
If you’re doing forensic work today, odds are you’re imaging SSDs, not just spinning hard drives. And SSDs don’t behave like HDDs – especially when it comes to deleted files. One key reason: the TRIM command. TRIM makes SSDs behave different to magnetic hard drives when it comes to recovering deleted evidence. This article breaks down what TRIM actually does, how SSDs respond, and what forensic experts need to know when handling modern storage.
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.
iPhone 4 Performance
September 15th, 2010 by Andrey Belenko
Finally, we’ve got our first iPhone 4 in office. And what was the first thing we did with it? Yes, test its performance to complete table in my previous post.
Measuring iPhone Performance
August 5th, 2010 by Andrey Belenko
I’ve had plans to create some kind of performance measurement app for iPhone/iPod/iPad for quite a bit time of already, and after reading recent reports that iOS 4 is very slow on iPhone 3G I thought that time had finally come.
Peeking Inside Keychain Secrets
August 5th, 2010 by Andrey Belenko
Today we have released Elcomsoft iPhone Password Breaker 1.20 which introduces two new features and fixes few minor issues.
