Five times faster brute force with 4-core CPU? Yes the new L0phtCrack 7 is now 5 times faster than L0phtCrack 6. And if you have a system with AMD Radeon Pro Duo the acceleration is amazing up to 500 times faster.
The L0phtCrack first released 19 years ago. A very strong one Password cracker which forced Microsoft to make improvements to the way Windows stores password hashes accesss. 
Microsoft finally eliminated weak LANMAN hash codes and started using only the strongest NTLM that it still uses up to date. However, password cracking algorithms and system hardware have improved significantly in the years to come.
The new version of L0phtCrack 7 shows that Windows passwords can be more easily broken today than it was before 18 years ago when Microsoft began making the necessary improvements to the stored passwords.
Σε έναν υπολογιστή του 1998 με Pentium II 400 MHz CPU, το πρωτότυπο L0phtCrack θα μπορούσε να σπάσει ένα κωδικό του Windows NT 8 χαρακτήρων (αλφαριθμητικό) μέσα σε 24 ώρες. Σε ένα μηχάνημα του 2016, με το L0phtCrack 7 μπορεί να σπάσει τον ίδιο κωδικό πρόσβασης που είναι αποθηκευμένος στην τελευταία έκδοση των Windows 10 within 2 hours.
Windows passwords have become much less secure over time and are much easier to break from the Windows NT era.
Other operating systems, such as Linux, offer much safer password fragmentations, such as SHA-512.
