Four Tools, One Workflow: Using Elcomsoft Desktop Forensic Tools on the Same Case
July 10th, 2026 by Oleg Afonin
Most people meet these four tools one product page at a time, which makes them look like four separate purchases for four separate problems. On a real desktop case they are closer to four stages of a single job. Each one hands its output to the next: Elcomsoft System Recovery and Elcomsoft Quick Triage pull the raw material off the machine, Forensic Disk Decryptor turns keys into mounted volumes, and Distributed Password Recovery grinds through whatever is left. In this article we will not go through the feature lists (the product pages do that job well enough); instead we will look at when to reach for each tool, and why the order in which you use them is not fixed but decided by the situation in front of you.
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.
Adobe Acrobat X Support in Advanced PDF Password Recovery
June 14th, 2012 by Olga Koksharova
We updated Advanced PDF Password Recovery to add Acrobat X support, recovering the original password and instantly removing various access restrictions in PDF documents produced by Adobe Acrobat X.
New Hardware Key for iPad 3 Passcode Verification or Is It Just Masking?
June 8th, 2012 by Andrey Belenko
Few days ago we have updated our iOS Forensic Toolkit to version 1.15 which includes some bugfixes and improvements and, most notably, supports passcode recovery on the new iPad (also known as iPad 3). There are no significant changes from the practical point of view (i.e. the process of passcode recovery is still exactly the same), but there is something new under the hood. So if you’re interested in iOS security and how stuff works, please read on.
Explaining that new iCloud feature
May 29th, 2012 by Andrey Belenko
It’s been almost two weeks since we have released updated version of Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker that is capable of downloading backups from the iCloud and we have seen very diverse feedback ever since. Reading through some articles or forum threads it became quite evident that many just do not understand what we have actually done and what are the implications. So I am taking another try to clarify things.
