

Dear Friends,

If you are using Elcomsoft Phone Breaker (EPB), you may already know we've updated the tool to version 6.10, introducing iOS 10 support. We've also announced a Mac version of Elcomsoft Phone Viewer. If you haven't received that newsletter, please feel free to read the original announce.

Today we have something new to share. While working on iOS 10, we discovered a major security weakness in the way iOS 10 handles backup encryption. iOS 10 local backups bypass certain security checks, making it possible to significantly speed up the recovery.

Technically speaking, the new protection scheme employed in iOS 10 is approximately 2500 times weaker compared to what was used in iOS 9. Does this mean you can break passwords that much times faster? Read along to find out!