Explore the world of advanced password cracking techniques in this Black Hat conference talk. Learn about the evolution of password cracking tools and their increasing importance in network security. Discover how new methods like LLMNR/NetBIOS response have impacted traditional techniques, emphasizing the need for efficient hash cracking. Delve into the power of GPU-based cracking and cloud services that have made high-performance cracking more accessible. Examine the limitations of current tools in distributed cracking scenarios and resource sharing. Introduce yourself to CrackLord, a scalable and distributed password cracking system designed to address these challenges. Understand its primary components: the Resource and Queue services, and how they work together to efficiently manage and distribute cracking jobs across multiple hardware systems. Gain insights into CrackLord's extensibility and its potential to revolutionize password cracking operations.