After it became known that Password-Find cloud service is capable of bypassing the passwords of Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents of Microsoft Office 97-2003, the company tried to fix vulnerabilities, so that the problems would not appear in the next version (2007/2010). But authors of Password-Find managed to introduce a new mechanism of bypassing the passwords, which allows compromising documents that have the new protection.
According to the developers of the mechanism, the method is working for about half of locked 2007/2010 documents. To unlock a document, a user has to visit www.password-find.com and using a simple interface upload the document to the website.
The service works on the “pay-for-results” principle, which means the users can check the results for free and then pay, in case everything works out. When everything is done correctly, the system displays the beginning of the unlocked document, and then the user pays the one-time license fee and downloads the complete unlocked file.
The license to remove password costs $19.95 and works to download unlimited unlocked files.
If the system can’t open a locked document, the data center offers an alternative approach to unlock the file. Moreover, user may purchase a license ($ 39.95 per document) to search for a password, which is used by the center not only to unlock the document, but also to restore the original password that protected the document.
