Mandiant releases credential cracker, to kill bad protocol
Mandiant released rainbow tables that enable Net-NTLMv1 credentials to be cracked within 12 hours on consumer hardware, urging organizations to disable the legacy protocol.
Mandiant releases rainbow table that cracks weak admin password in 12 hours
NTLMv1 is an insecure legacy Windows authentication protocol still widely used and vulnerable to trivial credential theft via known-plaintext and rainbow-table attacks.