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21 December, 2012 | One Citizen Speaking... - http://www.onecitizenspeaking.com/

Elcomsoft, a Russian company has now provided the world with a new utility to allow the examination of encrypted disks protected with BitLocker, PGP and TrueCrypt. For those who do not remember, Elcomsoft was the first company charged by the United States Government with violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for publishing the workarounds to crack Adobe’s pathetic PDF security. The presenter, Dmitry Sklyarov, was arrested by the U.S. authorities and held without bail – causing a major uprising in the tech community. (Full disclosure: I was involved in the case and presented live code examples to the FBI that there was a legitimate and fair use case to be made for Elcomsoft’s products under the DMCA.) And I was just as outraged over the jailing of Dimity as the rest of the tech community. To allow Adobe to continue the fiction that their products were safe and secure for use in the financial industry was a breach of faith and trust.

20 December, 2012 | TheRegister - http://www.theregister.co.uk/

ElcomSoft has built a utility that forages for encryption keys in snapshots of a PC's memory to decrypt PGP and TrueCrypt-protected data. Forensic Disk Decryptor attempts to unlock information stored in disks and volumes encrypted by BitLocker, PGP or TrueCrypt. The tool is designed for criminal investigators, IT security bods and forensic specialists. PGP and TrueCrypt set the industry standard for whole-disk or partition encryption.

20 December, 2012 | TheNextWeb - http://thenextweb.com/

Russian firm ElcomSoft on Thursday announced the release of Elcomsoft Forensic Disk Decryptor (EFDD), a new forensic tool that can reportedly access information stored in disks and volumes encrypted with desktop and portable versions of BitLocker, PGP, and TrueCrypt. EFDD runs on all 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7, as well as Windows 2003 and Windows Server 2008. The price tag isn’t outrageous, but EFDD will still set you back a solid $299.

20 December, 2012 | InformationWeek Security - http://www.informationweek.com/

The software from ElcomSoft -- a Russian provider of encryption-cracking software and other digital forensic tools -- accomplishes the feat not by cracking the containers themselves, but rather by exploiting the fact that once the containers are accessed, the decryption passwords get stored in computer memory. The software is designed to be used by digital forensic investigators -- for example, when investigating suspected insider theft incidents.

20 December, 2012 | Help Net Security - http://www.net-security.org

The complete decryption mode provides full, unrestricted forensic access to all information stored on encrypted volumes. Alternatively, by mounting encrypted containers as drive letters, investigators gain immediate, real-time access to protected volumes. In real-time mode, information read from encrypted containers is decrypted on-the-fly. The software offers true zero-footprint operation with no alterations or modifications to original content ever.

20 December, 2012 | FierceCIO - http://www.fiercecio.com

Russian digital forensics firm ElcomSoft has unveiled a new Forensic Disk Decryptor software that it says can make it possible to decrypt encrypted file volumes protected by tools such as BitLocker, PGP and TrueCrypt. [...] ElcomSoft has a long track record of successfully crafting attacks against security mechanisms such as the image verification system for Nikon and Canon cameras, the on-board encryption employed by the iPhone 3GS and even the encryption used by the BlackBerry Desktop Software to protect data backups.

20 December, 2012 | Simon Edwards - http://simonedwards.blogspot.ru

If you want your laptop's data to remain secure, even when stolen, one excellent solution is to encrypt the hard disk's partitions or even the whole disk. Popular options include Microsoft's BitLocker, Symantec's PGP Whole Disk Encryption and the open source TrueCrypt software. Elcomsoft has just announced that all of these encryption systems can be cracked by its new product, Elcomsoft Forensic Disk Decryptor.

11 October, 2012 | Threatpost - http://threatpost.com/

Caudill and fellow researcher Brandon Wilson recreated work done by Russian security company ElcomSoft, which specializes in password recovery solutions. Both were able to extract Windows passwords from the popular fingerprint reader, technology that was acquired by Apple earlier this year.

10 October, 2012 | VentureBeat - http://venturebeat.com/

Almost three months ago, Apple bought AuthenTec, a security company that builds sensors for PCs and phones to verify users and protect communications. One of the company’s products was Protector Suite, a secure way to log into Windows machines with your fingerprint. The only problem? The software stores inadequately encrypted passwords in the Windows Registry. In fact, according to ElemSoft, the passwords were almost in plain text. To put it bluntly, this “security solution” actually made PCs more vulnerable.

3 October, 2012 | Networkworld / Microsoft Insights - http://m.networkworld.com/

Russian corporate security and IT audit firm ElcomSoft claims to have developed tools with the ability to recover plain-text passwords used to encrypt documents in Microsoft Office 2013. In addition to a host of improvements and other changes, Microsoft beefed up the encryption scheme used to secure users’ data in Office 2013. With Office 2010, Microsoft used an SHA-1 class algorithm with a 128-bit key to encrypt plain-text password-protected documents. With Office 2013, though, Microsoft has moved to a technically more secure SHA-2 class SHA512 algorithm to calculate the hash values for the encryption keys, but it appears even that wasn’t enough. ElcomSoft, a privately owned company headquartered in Moscow, has announced that it has already developed tools to crack Microsoft’s latest protection schemes. Shocking, I know.