CSE 127: Computer Security
Syllabus
Unless explicitly marked as Optional, all readings are considered required.
Date |
Topic |
Sept 28 |
Introduction
Note, no discussion section next Monday |
Oct 3 |
Threat Modeling and Risk
Read by today: Thompson, Reflections on Trusting Trust
Mickens, This World of Ours
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Oct 5 |
Control Flow Vulnerabilities: Buffer Overflows
Read by today: Aleph One, Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit.
Optional: Richard Bonichon's Basic exploitation techniques slides
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Oct 10 |
Control Flow
Vulnerabilities: Format strings, Integers and Heap
Read by today: van der Veen et al, Memory Errors: The Past, the Present, and the Future
Optional: sploitfun, Understanding glibc malloc.
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Oct 12 |
Catching up
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Oct 17 |
Control Flow Vulnerabilities: Defenses and evolution
Read by today: Erlingsson et al, Low-level Software Security by Example
Optional: Szekeres et al, Eternal War in Memory
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Oct 19 |
Control Flow Vulnerabilities: ROP and CFI
Optional: Shacham, The Geometry of Innocent Flesh on the Bone and Abadi et al, Control Flow Integrity.
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Oct 24 |
System security I: Isolation and Privilege
Jaeger, Security in Ordinary Operating Systems (Earlence Fernandes guest lecture)
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Oct 26 |
System security II: Side channels (also slides excerpted from Schwarz and Lipp)
Anderson, Security Engineering, Chap 19, Side Channels
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Oct 31 |
Crypto I
Security Engineering, Chapter 5
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Nov 2 |
Crypto II: Key distribution
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Nov 7 |
Web Security I
Deian Stefan's lecture notes on CSRF, XSS and SQLi, SQL injection
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Nov 9 |
Midterm
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Nov 14 |
Web Security II
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Nov 16 |
Network Security I
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Nov 21 |
Network Security II
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Nov 23 |
Thanksgiving break
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Nov 28 |
User Authentication
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Nov 30 |
Malware I
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Dec 5 |
Botnets/Cybercime |
Dec 7 |
Law and Ethics (note: this material not included in final) |
Dec
14 |
Final Exam (Thursday, Dec 14th, 3pm-5:59pm, location TBD) |