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iCloud backups: the Dark Territory
Apple ecosystem includes a comprehensive backup ecosystem that includes both local and cloud backups, and data synchronization with end-to-end encryption for some categories. Today we’ll discuss the...
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Logical Acquisition: Not as Simple as It Sounds
Speaking of mobile devices, especially Apple’s, “logical acquisition” is probably the most misused term. Are you sure you know what it is and how to properly use it, especially if you are working in...
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Dude, Where Are My Messages?
Cloud backups are an invaluable source of information whether you download them from the user’s iCloud account or obtain directly from Apple. But why some iCloud backups miss essential bits and pieces...
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Apple Mobile Devices and iOS Acquisition Methods
Do you have to know which SoC a certain Apple device is based on? If you are working in mobile forensics, the answer is positive. Along with the version of iOS/watchOS/iPadOS, the SoC is one of the...
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IoT Forensics: Analyzing Apple Watch 3 File System
Over the last several years, the use of smart wearables continued to grow despite slowing sales. Among the many models, the Apple Watch Series 3 occupies a special spot. Introduced back in 2017, this...
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Apple Watch Forensics: More on Adapters
If you are doing Apple Watch forensics, I’ve got some bad news for you. The latest model of Apple Watch, the Series 7, does not have a hidden diagnostics port anymore, which was replaced with a...
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The Five Ways to Recover iPhone Deleted Data
iOS security model offers very are few possibilities to recover anything unless you have a backup, either local or one from the cloud. There are also tricks allowing to recover some bits and pieces...
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Using a Trusted Device for iCloud Authentication
To perform an iCloud extraction, a valid password is generally required, followed by solving the two-factor authentication challenge. If the user’s iPhone is everything that you have, the iCloud...
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iCloud Extractions Without Passwords and Tokens: When a Trusted Device is Enough
A lot of folks (and even some law enforcement experts) are looking for a one-click solution for mobile extractions and data decryption. Unfortunately, in today’s day and age there are no ‘silver...
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Cloud Forensics: the New Reality
The majority of mobile devices today are encrypted throughout, making extractions difficult or even impossible for major platforms. Traditional attack vectors are becoming a thing of the past with...
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The iPhone Upgrade: How to Back Up and Restore iOS Devices Without Losing Data
In just a few weeks, the new iPhone range will be released. Millions of users all over the world will upgrade, migrating their data from old devices. While Apple has an ingenious backup system in...
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iOS 15 Forensic Implications: Temporary iCloud Backups
iOS 15 is about to bring a host of new features, some of which will have forensic implications. Today we’ll cover a feature that can help experts do cloud analysis, creating and extracting a copy of...
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Apple Watch Forensics: The Adapters
How do you extract an Apple Watch? While several extraction methods are available, you need an adapter if you want to get the data directly from the device. There are several different options...
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Analyzing Microsoft Timeline, OneDrive and Personal Vault Files
Elcomsoft Phone Breaker is not just about Apple iCloud data. It can also download the data from other cloud services including Microsoft accounts. In this new version, we have added support for even...
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Password Crackers’ Gold Mine: Browser Passwords
How to break ‘strong’ passwords? Is there a methodology, a step by step approach? What shall you start from if your time is limited but you desperately need to decrypt critical evidence? We want to...
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Hey Dude, Where Is My iCloud Data?
For more than ten years, we’ve been exploring iPhone backups, both local and iCloud, and we know a lot about them. Let’s reveal some secrets about the different types of backups and how they compare to...
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The Inception of Elcomsoft Phone Breaker
It’s been 10 years since we have released one of our flagship products, Elcomsoft Phone Breaker. The first version appeared in April 2011, and was named “iPhone Password Breaker”. Since then, we made...
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Apple, FBI and iPhone Backup Encryption: Everything You Wanted to Know
Shame on us, we somehow missed the whole issue about Apple dropping plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained, even mentioned in The Cybersecurity Stories We Were Jealous of in 2020 (and many...
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