Five times faster brute force with 4-core CPU? Yes the new L0phtCrack 7 is now 5 times faster than L0phtCrack 6 was. And if you have a system with AMD Radeon Pro Duo the acceleration is amazing up to 500 times faster.
L0phtCrack released 19 years ago. A very powerful password cracker that forced Microsoft to make improvements to the way Windows stores password hashes. 
Microsoft eventually removed the weak LANMAN password hash and started using only the stronger NTLM, which it still uses today. However, password cracker algorithms and system hardware have improved significantly in the intervening years.
The new version of L0phtCrack 7 demonstrates that Windows passwords can be cracked much more easily today than they were 18 years ago, when Microsoft started making the necessary strength improvements to stored passwords.
On a 1998 computer with a Pentium II 400 MHz CPU, the original L0phtCrack could crack an 8-character Windows NT password (alphanumeric) in 24 hours. On a 2016 machine, L0phtCrack 7 can crack the same password stored in the latest version of Windows 10 in 2 hours.
Windows passwords have become much less secure over time and are much easier to crack than they were in the Windows NT era.
Other operating systems, such as Linux, offer much more secure password hashes, such as SHA-512.
