CSE 127
Schedule: Lecture: TTh 2-3:20 (PCYNH 106), Discussion: M 1-1:50 (PCYNH 106)
Instructor: Stefan Savage.
Office hours: Mondays 3-4pm: CSE Building 3106 or by appt
Teaching Assistants and Tutors:
- Kunj Nikhil Champaneri
- Yuke Liu
- Manav Ram
- Sakshi Subedi
TA Office Hours:
- Tuesday 3:30pm - 4:30pm: Yuke, EBU3B B260A
- Thursday 5:00pm - 7:00pm: Sakshi, EBU3B B260A
- Thursday 3:30pm - 4:30pm: Yuke, EBU3B B260A
- Friday 12:00pm - 2:00pm: Manav, Autograder Queues
- Friday 5:00pm - 7:00pm: Kunj, EBU3B B270A
Description
This course focuses on computer
and network security, covering a wide range of topics on both the
"defensive" and "offensive" side of this field. Among these will be
code security and exploitation (buffer overflows, race conditions, SQL
injection, etc), access control and authentication, covert channels,
protocol attacks, firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention,
viruses/worms and bots, spyware and phishing, denial-of-service,
privacy/anonymity, and computer forensics. The goal of the course is
to provide an appreciation of how to think adversarially with respect
to computer systems as well as an appreciation of how to reason about
attacks and defenses.
To complete the projects in this course, you will need the ability
to develop software programs using the C language, and some
understanding of Assembly, PHP and SQL. We will not reach these in
class and you will be expected to learn them on your own. If you do
not know C, I recommend the classic, The C Programming
Language, by Kernighan and Ritchie, because it is short and
simple.
Logistics
We will be using Piazza for class discussion. Rather than
emailing questions to the teaching staff, please post your questions
on Piazza; this will keep the discussions organized and let everyone
benefit from the answers. We may also use it for announcements. The class Piazza can be accessed via Canvas.
Academic Integrity
Finally, each student is responsible for knowing and abiding by UCSD's Policy on Integrity of Scholarship. Any student violating university standards will earn an 'F' in the course and will be reported to the appropriate campus office. Committing acts that violate integrity or community standards are cause for suspension or dismissal from UCSD as per the 2017 Guidelines for Academic Integrity violations.
To be clear, you are expected to do this work on your own (or
with a partner for assignments that have partners) and not make
use of anyone else's code, or data or code/data found on the
Internet, or created using LLM tools such as CoPilot, ChatGPT
and Bard>
If have any questions, please ask.