18 May, 2012 | Daily Mail - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

Beware of iCloud! Snooping software lets police read everything on your iPhone in real-time without you ever knowing

Police - or anyone with a piece of spying software - can track everything you do on your iPhone without needing physical access to your phone. The software, called Phone Password Breaker, can download all of the data from Apple's iCloud service - which backs up all of your pictures, text messages, emails, calendar appointments, call logs, website you have visited, and contacts. As iPhones sync nearly instantaneously with iCloud, anyone who is listening will have near-instantaneous access to your phone - without the owner noticing a thing.

18 May, 2012 | InformationWeek - http://www.informationweek.com/

Forensic Tool Grabs iPhone, iPad Data Remotely

Digital forensic investigators have a new technique for recovering the data stored on an iPhone or iPad: ElcomSoft has updated its Phone Password Breaker cracking tool to automatically retrieve iOS device backups from the Apple iCloud.

17 May, 2012 | Gizmodo Australia - http://www.gizmodo.com.au/

New Forensics Tool Can Slurp A Phone’s Data Via The Cloud

The police don’t even need to touch your phone anymore to know how you’ve been using it. A new off-the-shelf forensics tool lets cops retrieve all the data they want from your iPhone by accessing its contents through iCloud.

17 May, 2012 | Tab Times - http://tabtimes.com/

ElcomSoft's iOS Forensic Toolkit cracks iCloud backups

A Russian company called ElcomSoft says it’s figured out a way to access a user’s online backups stored in Apple’s iCloud service.

26 March, 2012 | Michael Kassner (TechRepublic) - http://www.techrepublic.com/search?q=michael+kassner&tag=content;siu-container

Mobile password managers: Cracking the security mechanisms

Password managers for mobile devices are convenient. But are the cached passwords sufficiently protected? Michael Kassner asks two experts to explain the vulnerabilities.

16 March, 2012 | SecurityWatch, Neil J. Rubenking - http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/

ElcomSoft: Smartphone Password Managers Not Secure

If a disgruntled employee leaves company resources password-locked, ElcomSoft probably has a solution. With over 20 years of experience, the company "provides tools, training, and consulting services to law enforcement, forensics, financial and intelligence agencies." ElcomSoft researchers recently evaluated security in 17 password managers for iPhone and BlackBerry. Their conclusion? There isn't any.

16 March, 2012 | TidBITS - http://tidbits.com/

Elcomsoft Criticism of iOS Password Apps Overblown

Major password-keeping apps for iOS use encryption techniques that, depending on the strength of the master password, can be easily overcome in under a day, revealing all of the ostensibly secured passwords, security firm Elcomsoft said in a security conference presentation in the Netherlands.

16 March, 2012 | ZETETIC - http://zetetic.net/

ElcomSoft's Password Manager Shakedown

The results are shocking: of the 17 password management programs analyzed, they showed that most of the products, including many of today's most popular password managers

22 February, 2012 | InfoSecurity - http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/

The contradictions of password psychology

A new survey on attitudes towards passwords indicates an apparent contradiction: most people want stricter password security policies, but don’t bother changing their own default passwords.

8 July, 2010 | SecurityWeek News - http://www.securityweek.com/

Crack Passwords to Wireless Networks, iPhones, and PCs Faster with New Recovery Tool

Moscow based ElcomSoft, developer of the software, announced a 20-fold gain in recovery speed compared to Intel current top of the line quad-core CPUs by using NVIDIA's newest high-end video accelerators for its password recovery tools.