Okay.. I know you would say you have read it in Wikipedia… I am fine with it.. In fact I am about to paste an excerpt from Wikipedia.. he he… "In probability theory, the birthday problem, or birthday paradox[1] pertains to the probability that in a set of randomly chosen people some pair of them [...]
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System Management Mode
Hello there.. Today while reading through the Intel Architecture Software Developer’s Manual Volume 1: Basic Architecture under section 3.1 I found something really interesting . The section was around modes of processor operation Viz The Protected Mode, Real mode and System Management mode. I did hear about first two modes earlier, however the third one was completely new to me. I decided to google a bit [...]
Autorun Vulnerability. Are we really safe ?
If the latest National Cyber Alert System document from US-CERT can be believed, the W32.Downadup worm issue is even more serious as the Microsoft work around of disabling Autorun through registry is not disabling it completely. An excerpt from the document is provided below: ImpactBy placing an Autorun.inf file on a device, an attacker may be able to [...]