Passware Press Center

Founded in 1998, Passware provides help desk personnel, law enforcement, forensic agencies, IT professionals, and business and home users around the world with the security tools they need to ensure data availability in the event of lost passwords.
Passware products keep raising interest among IT professionals and computer forensics experts and continue to receive extensive coverage in the media.

Passware: The First to Recover Bitcoin Wallet Passwords

October 3, 2018

Passware Kit becomes the first commercially available forensic software to recover passwords for popular Bitcoin wallets

Passware Decrypts New Apple File System

Passware software helps investigators and forensic examiners access encrypted data from MacBooks with APFS disks

Magnet Forensics and Passware Partner to Provide Full Disk Decryption in Magnet AXIOM

Fully integrated forensic examinations of encrypted drives with a known password will soon be possible in AXIOM

Guidance Software and Passware Announce Enhanced Password Recovery Solutions

Guidance Software and Passware, Inc. today announced support for files encrypted with TrueCrypt – a popular open-source encryption platform...

Passware Proves Windows 10 No More Secure Than Its Predecessors

October 8, 2015

The password recovery expert releases a decryption solution for Live ID accounts and BitLocker disks on Windows 10, claiming that the process is a matter of minutes...

Passware Exposes Suspects’ Photo Stream to Computer Forensics

Investigators now have a unique tool that leverages Passware’s research in live-memory analysis for over-the-air acquisition of Apple Photo Stream contents without Apple ID or password...

Passware First to Enable Computer Forensics to Crack Linux Disk Encryption (LUKS)

December 4, 2014

Passware introduces hardware-accelerated password cracking software for Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) full disk encryption, providing law enforcement and computer...

Passware Software Extracts iPhone Data Even with iOS 8 Encryption Upgrade

October 7, 2014

Apple’s latest security improvements in iOS 8 make iCloud backup acquisition the only way for criminal investigators to access the suspect’s smartphone data...

Passware and Oxygen Join to Break into a Variety of Encrypted Mobile Devices

August 19, 2014

Passware integrates its password recovery module into Oxygen software to provide complete solution for mobile forensics – Oxygen Forensic® Passware® Analyst...

Passware Enhances FileVault2 Decryption

December 17, 2013

Mac FileVault2 passwords now recoverable at a high speed, in addition to Passware's previously announced live memory analysis solution...

Passware Asserts: Android Backups are Not Any More Secure than iPhone Backups

October 23, 2013

Computer forensics now have full access to smartphone data – Passware pioneers cracking passwords for Android backups and reveals that the encryption...

TrueCrypt Containers is No Longer Hidden as Passware Kit Now Detects Hard Disk Images

The new Passware Kit scans computers and finds all encrypted containers and hard disk images, such as TrueCrypt, BitLocker, and PGP...

Passware Warns: Save or Not, it Takes a Few Minutes to Extract a Facebook or Google Password

February 20, 2013

Passware Kit exposes passwords for social networks by analyzing live memory and hibernation files...

Passware Releases the Industry’s First Decryption Solution for the MS Office 2013

December 12, 2012

Now in record time IT forensic professionals can decrypt MS Office 2013 documents with Passware’s hardware accelerated password recovery and live memory analysis solution...

Passware Software Makes Windows Computers Accessible to Law Enforcement Exposing Login Passwords in Minutes

September 17, 2012

Proprietary technology enables extraction of Windows login passwords from computer memory and hibernation files...

Instant Decryption of MS Office 2010 Documents Now Possible With Live Memory Analysis Solution by Passware

Software enables decryption of MS Word and Excel 2007-2010 files in minutes regardless of the password strength by finding encryption keys in computer memory...

Passware Contributes to Mac Forensics by Decrypting FileVault

February 1, 2012

Full access to an encrypted Mac disk within minutes – new live memory analysis solution released by one of the leading eDiscovery software companies...

Passware Enables Forensics to Extract Windows, Email and Internet Passwords from Registry of Seized Computers

October 11, 2011

New version of Passware Kit makes all passwords for Windows accounts, email, websites, and network connections easily available to computer forensics by decrypting...

Passware Proves Mac OS Lion Insecure Revealing Login Passwords in Minutes

Password extraction possible even if the computer is locked or put to sleep – after a user logs in, password remains in memory...

Passware Partners with Guidance Software to Bring Encrypted Evidence Discovery and Analysis to EnCase

Passware, Inc. today announced a partnership with Guidance Software, Inc. to expand encrypted evidence discovery...

Passware Takes Password Cracking Into the Cloud

Passware Kit Is the First Commercial Software to Utilize Cloud Computing for Accelerated Password Recovery...

Passware Warns: Microsoft Windows Sleep Feature Poses Security Risk

December 9, 2010

Passware enhances Passware Kit software for instant decryption of TrueCrypt and BitLocker by analyzing a hibernation file...

Passware Cracks Portable BitLocker To Go USB Disks

September 20, 2010

Passware Kit Forensic now decrypts BitLocker To Go thumb drives in less than 20 minutes with live memory image; new feature presented at the...

Passware Kit 10.1 Cracks RAR and TrueCrypt Encryption in Record Time

Passware Kit 10.1 now uses computing power of graphic processing (GPU) cards to break strong encryption 45 times faster than other...

Passware Kit Accelerates Distributed Password Cracking

New Passware Kit 10 dramatically improves chances of cracking strong passwords by using hardware-accelerated distributed password recovery...

Passware Kit Forensic Decrypts TrueCrypt Hard Disks in Minutes

Law enforcement organizations can easily access stored data from TrueCrypt hard disks of “hot” computers...

Passware software cracks BitLocker encryption open

December 1, 2009

Passware announces the release of the world’s first commercially available BitLocker decryption software...

Passware Exposes Private Data Indexed by Windows Search

November 12, 2008

New evidence discovery software extracts all users’ data from a Windows Search Database...

Passware and Perlustro Partnership Produces Groundbreaking Forensics Technology

New Technology Will Provide Unprecedented Access To Electronic Data And Will Dramatically Increase The Speed Of Digital Discovery...

Passware Software Prevents Users from Losing their Passwords and Files

October 17, 2007

Leading password recovery company introduces a free encryption scanning tool...

New Passware Recovery Kit is First Software to Recover Windows Vista and Office 2007 Passwords

New Passware Recovery Kit is First Software to Recover Windows Vista and Office 2007 Passwords...

Access Password-Protected Documents When Passwords Are Accidentally or Intentionally Lost

August 16, 2005

Access Password-Protected Documents When Passwords Are Accidentally or Intentionally Lost...

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