Members Of Legendary ’90s Hacker Group Relaunch Password-Cracking Tool

Thursday, May 28th, 2009 | Filed under Cybersecurity | Posted by

It’s official: The famous password-cracking tool L0phtCrack is back, and its creators plan to keep it that way.

L0phtCrack 6 tool, released Wednesday, was developed in 1997 by Christien Rioux, Chris Wysopal, and Peiter “Mudge” Zatko from the former L0pht Heavy Industries — the hacker think tank best known for testifying before Congress that it could shut down the Internet in 30 minutes. In January of this year, Rioux, Wysopal, and Zatko bought back L0phtCrack from Symantec, and later announced they would build a new version of the tool with support for 64-bit Windows platforms and other new features. (Dark Reading)

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