Elcomsoft releases BlackBerry password cracking tool
The BlackBerry OS is known for the many security safeguards it affords individual users and organizations, the most basic--and most important--of which is probably the device password. In fact, I've written countless mobile device security tips and tricks posts, and "Enable a password" is almost always atop my list of suggestions.
However, Russian software vendor Elcomsoft has just released an updated version of its Phone Password Breaker product, and the company claims the software can crack any BlackBerry handheld's password, as long as the BlackBerry owner has enabled a media card encryption option within the smartphone's security settings.
The company claims that the latest version of its Phone Password Breaker software, v1.80, can indeed recover BlackBerry device passwords and not just passwords to RIM's BlackBerry Wallet and Password Keeper apps, via BlackBerry backups and assuming the necessary BlackBerry media card encryption setting is enabled. Elcomsoft's Chief Security Researcher, Andrey Belenko, has detailed the associated process on the company's website.
