Advanced Password Recovery Training
Comprehensive three-day course offering hand-on experience in unlocking and extracting evidence from mobile devices, accessing password-protected and encrypted computer data.
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Description
- Duration: 3 days
- Group size: up to 12 students
- Instructors: experts in mobile forensics
- Certification: provided
- Included: 90-day access to full versions of all software tools used during the training
- Extra benefits: the book “Mobile Forensics – Advanced Investigative Strategies” by Vladimir Katalov and Oleg Afonin
Reasons to take the Advanced Password Recovery Training
In this comprehensive course on password recovery, students are led through the fundamentals of data protection, encryption and passwords. The course teaches students to deal with the many types of encrypted information, explains the differences between the different types of protection, encryption and passwords. Attendees will get hands-on experience in breaking passwords to the many common types of data including encrypted volumes, protected documents, archives and backups. Attendees who successfully pass the class assignments will be given a certificate of completion.
The skills you get
The students will gain in-depth understanding of data protection methods, encryption and passwords. The attendees will learn using the most efficient workflow to access the many types of protected information. They’ll learn about the specifics of recovering access to encrypted volumes and crypto containers, gaining access to password-protected documents and archives. The students will master the skills of extracting passwords from the user’s computer, building targeted dictionaries and applying meaningful mutations. The attendees will gain understanding of the different types of attacks, the hardware resources required to perform those attacks, and their relation to the recovery timeframe and success probability.
Program
Day 1
- Introduction to encryption and hashing
- Choosing the target: keys, passwords and instant recovery
- Exploiting the human factor
- Understanding distributed computing and GPU acceleration
- Gathering the low-hanging fruit: extracting existing passwords from Mac and PC
Day 2
- Targeted dictionary with user’s existing passwords
- Custom dictionary based on online password leaks
- Understanding mutations
- Setting up attack pipeline
Day 3 – Practical Assignments
- Attacking BitLocker
- Extracting user’s existing passwords and building a custom dictionary
- Discovering encrypted content
- Setting up attack pipeline and recovering passwords.