Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation

This empowers script kiddies, but not significantly moreso than they already were. Of all the places this is still in use, they've been exposed for years, so this isn't likely to result in a a bunch of new exploitations.

However, it's most likely to be used by governments, with legacy servers that are finicky, with filesharing set up that's impacted other computers configured for compatibility, or legacy ancient network gear or printers.

I wonder who they're pushing around, and what the motivation is?

Didn't l0phtcrack do this like 25 years ago?

They're just dumping them out as 2GB blobs onto a cloud? Where is the zippy search UI? Very lazy behavior for the hyper giant Google.

This is like reminding that there are CVSes from 2010. Yes there are. And there are plenty of vulnerable systems.

They decided to not fix the vulns (either directly by not patching, or indirectly by not investing in cybersecurity). So exploiting them is somehow an act of mercy. They may not know they have a problem and they have an opportunity to learn.

Let's just hope they will have white or gray-ish hats teaching the lesson

I wonder how the Mandiant acquisition is regarded within google.

Was it a success? Is Mandiant a cash cow or was it basically an acquihire?

The big "contact mandiant" button next to the post feels a bit like trying to stay relevant and acquire more customers.

> under 12 hours using consumer hardware costing less than $600 USD

Great, so someone with half a motherboard can break this hash

pretty cool

Holy smoke. I honestly thought the 90s called and wanted their Windows exploits back (TFA mentions 1999). I do remember talk about this from many moons ago.

But we are in two-thousand-twenty-FUCKING-six.

It's unbelievable. Just plain unbelievable.

Can't wait for someone to decide one of protocols used by google needs to be deprecated.

"To demonstrate how crappy most front door locks are, to boost our company's social media cred we will be leaving drills and a dish of bump keys at the entrance of the neighborhood."