CSE 127
Schedule: Lecture: TTh 11-12:20 (Center Hall 109), Discussion: F 12-12:50 (PCYNH 106)
Instructor: Stefan Savage.
Office hours: Friday 9am CSE Building 3106 or by appt
Teaching Assistants and Tutors:
- Wenyi "Morty" Zhang (wez048@ucsd.edu) (TA)
- Trey Shneour (tshneour@ucsd.edu) (TA)
- Sachin Ramanathan (saramanathan@ucsd.edu) (Tutor)
TA/Tutor Office Hours & Course Calendar
For TA and Tutor office hours (all walk-in), please refer to the calendar below.
As we add or modify OH, we will update this calendar.
Make sure to check the description of the events for OH locations as we do not have a universal OH room.
You can also see whether lecture or discussion is cancelled for a particular day (e.g. holidays).
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 academic integrity office. Committing acts that violate integrity or community standards are cause for suspension or dismissal from UCSD as per the campus 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
Bard, or Claude>
If have any questions, please ask.