Since iPhone Firmware 3.0 we can create iPhone backups that are password protected. But there will always be people that will forget their password. If you are one of them your backup is suddenly became useless. But don’t give up, ElcomSoft has created a program that can crack your database password for you.

ElcomSoft’s iPhone Password Breaker can crack your encrypted iPhone backup and is currently in beta mode. It is free to download but will expire by March 15 2010. [Download: ElcomSoft's iPhone Password Breaker].

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Jonathan Zdziarski, shows us how easy it is to remove the PIN passcode and backup encryptions from the iPhone 3Gs. The actual “recipe” is not reveled but this is an interesting video non the less.

You can read an interview of Jonathan on Wired.com , where he says and shows us how “weak” is iPhone 3Gs’s encryption.

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While Apple is struggling to get the iPhone adopted by business users, some more problems come their way as iPhone hacker NerveGas found yet another security hole that can allow anyone with a little technical knowledge to bypass the passcode and access encrypted and protected information on your iPhone 3GS. You can see NerveGas hacking an iPhone 3GS in the video below.

Zdziarski said it’s just as easy to access a user’s private information on an iPhone 3GS as it was on the previous generation iPhone 3G or first generation iPhone, both of which didn’t feature encryption. If a thief got his hands on an iPhone, a little bit of free software is all that’s needed to tap into all of the user’s content. Live data can be extracted in as little as two minutes, and an entire raw disk image can be made in about 45 minutes, Zdziarski said.

If you’re an average iPhone user like me, chances are you don’t care much about this security hole. However, if you’re a business person, that can be a big thread to you.

Hey Apple, why don’t you stop worrying about the jailbreakers out there and start working on making the iPhone a more secured device?

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