Firm Claims To Break Blackberry Device Password

Research in Motion’s phones are considered the premiere maker of enterprise-grade mobile devices. But now a Russian firm says that a forensics tool it developed can reliably crack strong passwords used to secure the company’s BlackBerry phones. Elcomsoft, a computer forensics software maker, said on Thursday (PDF) that it has developed the ability to crack passwords used to protect Blackberry phones. An update to the company’s Phone Password Breaker software can recover device passwords securing BlackBerry phones in cases when the user has enabled the Device Password security option to encrypt data stored on a removable media card.

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