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  2. System Management Mode - Wikipedia

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    SMM is a special-purpose operating mode provided for handling system-wide functions like power management, system hardware control, or proprietary OEM designed code. It is intended for use only by system firmware (BIOS or UEFI), not by applications software or general-purpose systems software. The main benefit of SMM is that it offers a ...

  3. System Information (Windows) - Wikipedia

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    System Information (msinfo32.exe) is a system profiler included with Microsoft Windows that displays diagnostic and troubleshooting information related to the operating system, hardware and software. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It has been bundled with Windows since Windows NT 4.0 .

  4. Windows 11, version 23H2 - Wikipedia

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    Canary Channel: December 5, 2023 10.0.26010.1000 [114] Canary Channel: December 7, 2023 Deprecation of the Microsoft Tips app; 10.0.26010.1010 [114] Canary Channel: December 12, 2023 10.0.26016.1000 [115] Canary Channel: December 13, 2023 New Windows Protected Print Mode [116] New Mobile devices (renamed from Phone Link) page in the Settings ...

  5. Buffer overflow protection - Wikipedia

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    Canaries or canary words or stack cookies are known values that are placed between a buffer and control data on the stack to monitor buffer overflows. When the buffer overflows, the first data to be corrupted will usually be the canary, and a failed verification of the canary data will therefore alert of an overflow, which can then be handled, for example, by invalidating the corrupted data.

  6. CPU modes - Wikipedia

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    Several computer systems introduced in the 1960s, such as the IBM System/360, DEC PDP-6/PDP-10, the GE-600/Honeywell 6000 series, and the Burroughs B5000 series and B6500 series, support two CPU modes; a mode that grants full privileges to code running in that mode, and a mode that prevents direct access to input/output devices and some other hardware facilities to code running in that mode.

  7. Security modes - Wikipedia

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    In multilevel security mode of operation (also called Controlled Security Mode), all users must have: Signed NDA for ALL information on the system. Proper clearance for SOME information on the system. Formal access approval for SOME information on the system. A valid need to know for SOME information on the system.

  8. Informant - Wikipedia

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    A representative from the U.S. State Department congratulates and offers a partial payment to a fully disguised informant whose information led to the neutralization of a terrorist in the Philippines Two-page totally confidential, direct and immediate letter from the Iranian Minister of Finance to the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Hossein Fatemi) about creating a foreign information network for ...

  9. System high mode - Wikipedia

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    System high mode, or simply system high, is a security mode of using an automated information system (AIS) that pertains to an environment that contains restricted data that is classified in a hierarchical scheme, such as Top Secret, Secret and Unclassified. System high pertains to the IA features of information processed, and specifically not ...