Passware, Inc., a provider of password recovery, decryption, and electronic evidence discovery software for computer forensics, law enforcement organizations, government agencies, and private investigators, announces that Passware Kit Forensic v.12.3 can recover passwords for Facebook and Google from computer memory and hibernation files.

Social network passwords, once entered, reside in the computer memory even in locked computers. Until the next hibernation, a system hibernation file contains all the passwords, which leaves them accessible after the computer shuts down.

Social networks present a boundless source of information to computer forensics. The majority of sensitive information, including conversation histories, personal data, relationships to other people, etc., is stored remotely on the internet in social network profiles. Gaining access to this information is an invaluable part of computer forensics.

Using Passware Kit, computer forensics can extract those passwords not saved in a browser, regardless of their strength, from a computer memory image or a system hibernation file even after a user closes the browser and locks Windows or puts it into “sleep.” Currently, Passware Kit recognizes passwords for Facebook and Google, and lists passwords for other websites detected in the memory.

Passware Kit also uses live memory analysis for instant decryption of BitLocker, TrueCrypt, Mac FileVault2, and PGP disks, as well as MS Office 2007-2013 documents, and instant recovery of Windows and Mac users’ passwords.

This new feature, available in Enterprise and Forensic editions of Passware Kit, is designed for corporate and forensic investigations performed on the seized computers.

Learn more about Passware Kit Forensic 12.3 at www.lostpassword.com/news/pnl66.htm.