▶ 2.8 Resources

Important Terms Introduced

  • access matrix

  • access right

  • Apple’s iOS

  • attack scenario

  • authentication

  • biometrics

  • booting, bootstrapping

  • buffer

  • buffer overflow

  • bus

  • called procedure

  • calling procedure

  • Chain of Control

  • control section

  • cryptography

  • data section

  • device driver

  • dispatcher

  • DisplayPort

  • Ethernet

  • firewall

  • Firewire

  • firmware

  • flash memory

  • hard drive

  • island

  • Kerckhoffs’s principle

  • kernel mode

  • key

  • machine instructions

  • MacOS

  • Morris worm

  • motherboard

  • multitasking

  • nonrepudiation

  • Open Design

  • page table

  • parallel connection

  • pattern

  • persistent storage

  • process

  • process state

  • puzzle

  • return address

  • sandbox

  • security controls

  • serial connection

  • Shannon’s maxim

  • shell

  • stack

  • steganography

  • Thunderbolt

  • Unix-based

  • user identity

  • user mode

  • vault

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