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Linux and SQL-1

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 OS Windows, macOS, Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and iOS are all commonly used operating systems. Security analysts should be aware of vulnerabilities that affect operating systems. It’s especially important for security analysts to be familiar with legacy operating systems, which are systems that are outdated but still being used. When you press the power button,  you're interacting with the hardware.  This boots the computer and  brings up the operating system.  Booting the computer means that  a special microchip called a BIOS is activated.  On many computers built after 2007,  the chip was replaced by the UEFI( Unified Extensible Firmware Interface ).  Both BIOS and UEFI contain booting instructions that are  responsible for loading a special program  called the bootloader.  Then, the bootloader is  responsible for starting the operating system. An application is a program  that performs a specific task.  When y...