Downloading iPhone and iPad backups from Apple iCloud
May 26th, 2026 by Oleg Afonin
Pulling a backup out of iCloud is one of the more technically demanding jobs in cloud forensics. An iCloud backup is not a single, ready-to-download file; instead, it is assembled from a large number of separate fragments that have to be collected and stitched back together into a coherent backup. Recent changes to Apple’s communication protocols broke things for everyone except Apple themselves, meaning that we had to rework the underlying extraction logic. This is documented in Elcomsoft Phone Breaker 11 Restores iCloud Access.
Yahoo!, Dropbox and Battle.net Hacked: Stopping the Chain Reaction
February 14th, 2013 by Vladimir Katalov
Major security breaches occur in quick succession one after another. Is it a chain reaction? How do we stop it?
Norwegian Teenagers Hacking iCloud Accounts
February 7th, 2013 by Olga Koksharova
A few days ago, we received the following communication from an obsessed password researcher and our long-standing friend (quoted with his permission):
ElcomSoft Decrypts BitLocker, PGP and TrueCrypt Containers
December 20th, 2012 by Vladimir Katalov
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.
