Posts Tagged ‘Digital Forensics’

Elcomsoft Phone Breaker is a universal tool for extracting data from backups and cloud storage of mobile devices running iOS, Windows Phone and BlackBerry 10. The tool allows law enforcement experts to access password-protected backups or download data from cloud storage. The utility supports all BlackBerry smartphones right up to the BlackBerry 10 and all portable devices on the Apple iOS platform, including the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch of all generations and versions up to 7 and their Plus versions.

SMB is a protocol that allows devices to perform a number of functions on each other via a (usually local) network. SMB exists for so long and supports so much backward compatibility that it contains an almost absurd amount of rudimentary functions, but its modern use of the kernel is simpler than it seems. Its huge size, rare documentation and a wide range of applications can make it one of the most frightening protocols for junior analysts.

The end of the year is the time for summing up the results and discussing the upcoming trends. The security forecasts for 2018 demonstrate many problems that can be used. The world seems less stable, and the software library is another violation of international data. In the last time, many companies have thought about security. Kelly Shortridge concluded that “Reality is just automation.”

CVE-2017-11826 is a memory corruption vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code by tricking a victim into opening a specially crafted file. The problem affects all supported versions of MS Office.