Description=L0phtCrack helps the military, government, corporations, and universities secure their NT/2000 computers Several Internet RFCs relating to computer security recommend password auditing or cracking to ensure adequate password security. SANS Top Ten Security Problems (June 19, 2000) listed user accounts with no or weak passwords as the 8th highest critical internet security problem. They also listed L0phtCrack as the tool for the job. Windows 2000 Magazine lists Use Password Crackers on their NT Server Security Checklist. Guess which tool is listed as the favorite. L0phtCrack of course! You can read more about what the security experts are saying about L0phtCrack in the news. Password auditting is the only way to find user accounts with no or weak passwords. As security professionals we ran an audit of one of the largest high tech companies in the world. This is what we found: L0phtCrack cracked 90% of the passwords in under 48 hours on a Pentium II/300. 18% of the passwords were cracked in under 10 minutes. The Administrator and most of the Domain Admin passwords were cracked. This company had a policy requiring passwords longer than 8 characters, with at least one upper case character plus a numeric or symbol character.
