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L0phtCrack (v6) Rises Again

Posted by Soulskill on from the old-dogs-new-tricks dept.

FyreWyr writes "L0phtCrack — now 12 years old — used to be a security 'tool of choice' for black hats, pen-testers, and security auditors alike — that is, until it was sold by L0pht to @stake, then Symantec, to be released and subsequently dropped as LC 5. As an IT security consultant, I used this tool to regularly expose vulnerabilities or recover data when there were few other options available. Eventually, I let it go as tech evolved away. Now, after being returned to its original developers, version 6 was released this week with fresh features: support for 64-bit multiprocessors, (current) Unix and Windows operating systems, and a number of other features, including enhanced handling of NTLM password hashes and support for rainbow tables. Interested parties, especially consultants, will find this shiny new version sports a hefty price tag. It raises doubts in my mind whether it can effectively compete with open source alternatives that go by similar names, but as I found earlier versions so useful, its re-emergence seems worth the mention."

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  1. Let me be the first to say: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Hahahahahahaa!

    L0phtCrack 6 Professional - $295.00
    L0phtCrack 6 Administrator - $595.00
    L0phtCrack 6 Consultant - $1195.00

    I can build my own from scratch and existing resources for cheaper with the same feature set.
    Thanks but not thanks.

    1. Re:Let me be the first to say: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      What a fucking Jew!

  2. Good old Symantec by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Putting the "no" in innovation, again.

  3. Re:Who remembers it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    But I can read on several languages and write, in a possible comprehensible manner, on them.

    If you can't excel at a single language, why not perform poorly and lose credibility in them all?

  4. Re:Am I missing something?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Never mind. My argument was stupid. I just realized it is asinine, because everyone who is anyone knows that Mudge is an elite Security specialist and I am an unknown Digital Forensics specialist, mostly because I suck and everyone who ever listened to me had their system compromised the same day. I feel so foolish! :-(

  5. Re:Am I missing something?? by fulldecent · · Score: 0, Troll

    Please read:

    Making a Faster Cryptanalytic Time-Memory Trade-Oï
    Philippe Oechslin
    http://lasecwww.epfl.ch/~oechslin/publications/crypto03.pdf

    or any other paper in its references

    --

    -- I was raised on the command line, bitch