B programming language, 705

Babbage, Charles, 7–8, 13

Back door attack, 680–681

Back-patch, Windows, 1033

Background execution, Android, 856–861

Background prefetch, Windows, 966

Backing store for paging, 236–238

Backup, file system, 307–312

Bad disk sector, 373

Bad-news diode, 1080

Balance set manager, Windows, 969

Ballooning, 497

Bandwidth reservation, Windows, 982

Banker’s algorithm, 458

• single resource, 458–459

• multiple resources, 459–461

Barrier, 148–150

Base binary, Windows, 1033

Base layer, Windows, 1014

Base named object, 891, 921-922

Base priority, Windows, 945

Base record, NT file system, 991

Base register, 185

Bash shell, 716

Basic block, 487

Basic input output system, 27, 34–35, 180

Batch system, 9

• scheduling, 160–161

Battery management, 427

BCD (see Boot Configuration Database)

Bell-LaPadula model, 630–631

Berkeley software distribution, 15, 707–712, 782, 786

Berkeley UNIX, 707–708

Berners-Lee, Tim, 78

Berry, Clifford, 8

Best fit memory management algorithm, 191

Biba model, 631–632

Big kernel lock, 544, 740

Big-endian machine, 1045

Big.little architecture, 540

Binary exponential backoff, 583

Binary semaphore, 131

Binary translation, 72, 483, 487, 488, 512–513

Binder, Android, 809, 814

Binder interfaces, Android, 816

Binder kernel module, 809–814

Binder user-space API, 814–815

Binderproxy, 814

Binding time, 1061

Biometric authentication, 645–647

Biometrics, 879

BIOS (see Basic Input Output System)

Bitmap for memory management, 189

BitLocker, 636, 1000

Bitmap, 415–416

Blackberry, 19

Block cache, file system, 315

Block device, 338

Block read ahead, 318–319

Block special file, 45, 264, 758

Block started by symbol, 744

Blocking call, 566

Blocking network, 534

Blue screen of death, 907

Bluetooth, 401

BNO (see BaseNamedObjects)

Boot block, 278

Boot configuration database, 913

Boot partition, Windows, 912

Boot service, 912

Booting, 34–36

• Linux, 741–743

• Windows, 910–914

Bot, 616

Botnet, 615

Bottom-up implementation, 1063–1064

Bounded-buffer problem, 128–132

Bourne again shell (bash), 716

Breaking exploitations, Windows, 1027–1031

Bridge, Ethernet, 583

Brk system call, 745, 747

Broker process, 882

Brooks, Fred, 12, 1078–1082

Brute force, 1069

BSD (see Berkeley Software Distribution)

BSOD (see Blue Screen Of Death)

BSS (see Block Started by Symbol)

Buddy algorithm, 752

Buffer cache, file system, 315

Buffer-overflow attack, 648–658

Buffering, 353, 364–367

Burst mode, 346

Bus, 33–34

Bus-based multiprocessor, 530–531

Busy waiting, 31, 121–127, 355

Bypassing ASLR, 655

Byron, Lord, 8