Passware Cracks Portable BitLocker To Go USB Disks

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and ATLANTA, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Passware, Inc., a provider of password recovery, decryption, and electronic evidence discovery software for corporations, law enforcement organizations, government agencies and private investigators, announces a major new product enhancement to Passware Kit Forensic 10.1 that allows for cracking of BitLocker To Go USB Disks.

Passware's BitLocker decryption capabilities, first introduced in November 2009, support all types of hard disk images, including raw image files, images created with Guidance EnCase or any other forensic tool. "This enhanced solution for computer forensics allows the entire memory capture and decryption process to take no more than 40 minutes regardless of the complexity of the password," said Dmitry Sumin, president of Passware, Inc.

With today's announcement, Passware Kit Forensics 10.1 is capable now of cracking portable USB disks encrypted with BitLocker To Go. This solution includes live target memory acquisition and BitLocker encryption key recovery that allows computer forensics to gain easily full access to the contents of the encrypted USB disk. Passware Kit Forensic now also supports BitLocker To Go images saved as Virtual Hard Disks (VHD) – a format that allows attaching BitLocker hard disks in Windows 7 and Server 2008 without using any third-party disk mounting tools.

Passware, a bronze sponsor of the 2010 International Training Conference by High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA) in Atlanta, Georgia, September 20-22, will demonstrate this new feature at their booth #116.

Passware Kit Forensic More Robust Than Ever; Joint Development with F-Response

Andy Malone, Microsoft MVP, CEO of Quality Training Ltd and founder of both the Dive Deeper Technology and Cybercrime Security events, gave a live demonstration of Passware's BitLocker decryption feature at MCT Summit UK, August 26, 2010. As published in the Andy Malone's MVP Blog, Malone notes, "For a bad guy who thinks that all his dirty secrets are safe. He can just simply encrypt hard disks and thumb drives, right? Wrong!! Passware has managed to include the tools to perform a live memory capture and thus reveal the encryption key stored in RAM. ...I can confirm I can crack BitLocker!"

In addition to the support from Malone, Passware collaborated with F-Response, developers of a unique software product for streamlining live analysis, collection, and authentication, to implement a joint solution for BitLocker decryption. A detailed view of the capabilities of this joint solution, including video recording, is available at http://bit.ly/pw-fr .

Pricing and Availability

Passware Kit 10.1 is available now from Passware and a network of resellers in the U.S., Europe, Asia, Australia, China, New Zealand, and South Korea. The manufacturer's suggested price for Forensic edition is $795 with one year of free updates. Passware welcomes users to view the software in action by signing up for a free webinar on BitLocker decryption. Additional product information and screen shots are available here: http://www.lostpassword.com/kit-forensic.htm.

About Passware Inc.

Founded in 1998, Passware Inc. is the worldwide leading maker of password recovery, decryption, and electronic evidence discovery software. Law enforcement and government agencies, institutions, corporations and private investigators, help desk personnel, and thousands of private consumers rely on Passware software products to ensure data availability in the event of lost passwords. Passware customers include many Fortune 100 companies and various US federal and state agencies, such as IRS, US Army, US Department of Defense (DOD), US Department of Justice, US Department of Homeland Security, US Department of Transportation, US Postal Service, US Secret Service, US Senate, and US Supreme Court. More information about Passware, Inc. is available at http://www.lostpassword.com/.

Passware is a privately held corporation with headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. and a software development and engineering office in Moscow, Russia.

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