Random Musings - Day #356

Well couple days off and should do some shopping but that's hardly happening.
For now some computer links that may have put on in the past year...

LSA is the Local Security Authority. According to Microsoft, "LSA Authentication describes the parts of the Local Security Authority (LSA) that applications can use to authenticate and log users on to the local system. It also describes how to create and call authentication packages and security packages."

You come dump lsa secrets (which doesn't allow access from the administrator) using oxid.it's abel or nirsoft's lsasecretsdump.

The security identifier (sid) is Microsoft's way of uniquely defining things. Here's some well known SIDs.

LMHash is an old school Microsoft format that should be stopped and later editions of Windows do not have by default.