Using the Extraction Agent in 2026: Compatibility, Signing, Firewall, and Extraction Tips
May 11th, 2026 by Oleg Afonin
Over the years, we have published several articles about the extraction agent. However, the underlying technology changes quickly, and incremental changes often have significant cumulative effects. As a result, many of our older posts are no longer relevant and can be misleading if followed to the letter today. While last year’s recap, Installing and Troubleshooting the Extraction Agent (2025), remains a solid foundation for general setup, it does not account for the most recent hardware and software developments. This article serves as the definitive point of reference, providing an up-to-date recap of everything you need to know about the extraction agent as of May 2026.
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.
Something new….
July 15th, 2010 by Alexandra Tsybulskaya
According to the preliminary results of our latest questionnaire (ElcomSoft Customer Reference program Questionnaire) the majority of people forget their passwords when returned from holidays, thus being blocked out from the precious information they have on the PC.
I bet that lots of people found themselves or those around in a similar situation at least once. Let me share my personal experience with you. One of my friends, having returned from the vacation in a tropical paradise, was pleased to see a new computer at her desk (while she was away the company renewed some of the machines) and at the same time very much discouraged and upset to find out that many of her passwords remained in her old pc and she didn't bother herself to save them anywhere else. So the access to the mail account from her new modern PC was forbidden, as well as access to several password-protected websites (from social networks to online banking). Nothing to be happy with, isn’t it?!! But such a story no longer has a sad ending due to the release of Elcom’s new recovery tool, namely ElcomSoft Internet Password Breaker. In the above described situation EINPB revealed necessary passwords stored in the old computer, thus letting a person replace the password-protected data from one machine to another. One more important remark in this respect is that my friend didn’t have to seek help of the “user-unfriendly sysadmin” 🙂
CCFC 2010
July 1st, 2010 by Andrey Belenko
For the third time we've been invited to Beijing, China to participate in CCFC (China Computer Forensic Conference), to talk about password recovery and to conduct workshop on password recovery tools. Like two previous times, this time CCFC also was great. Lots of visitors, very nice audience and lots of smart questions. On the first day of conference I gave a talk on password recovery (mostly very generic and not very in-depth) and I'd like to share slides of that talk.
0-day
June 21st, 2010 by Andrey Belenko
It’s been two weeks since Steve Jobs has announced release of new iPhone 4 and iOS 4 operating system during his keynote on WWDC’2010. New iPhone will begin shipping on Thursday, 24th of June, and new iOS will become available for download today, just few hours are left.
Password Usage Behavior Survey, Take 2
June 15th, 2010 by Olga Koksharova
Hello! Yet again, we have launched a survey on password usage behavior.
