Syllabus

Date	Topic
April 3	Introduction
April 5	Security Foundations Read by today: Thompson, Reflections on Trusting Trust and Chapter 1 in The Craft of System Security (textbook)
April 10	Low-level Software Security I: Buffer Overflows Read by today: Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit by Aleph One and Chapter 6 in The Craft of System Security (textbook).
April 12	Low-level Software Security II: Format Strings, Shellcode and Stack protection Read by today: Memory Errors: The Past, the Present, and the Future by van der Veen et al.
April 17	Low-level Software Security III: Integer overflow, ROP and CFI
April 19	Low-level Software Security IV: Heap attacks Read by today: Understanding glibc malloc by sploitfun.
April 24	Crypto I Read by today: Chapter 7 in The Craft of System Security (textbook)
April 26	Crypto II: PKI and side channels
May 1	User authentication
May 3	Midterm Exam
May 8	System Security I Read by today: Chapter 3.4 and 4 in The Craft of System Security (textbook)
May 10	Systems Security II
May 15	Web Security I Read by today: Chapter 12 in The Craft of System Security (textbook)
May 17	Class cancelled
May 22	Class cancelled
May 24	Web Security II
May 29	Network Security I
May 31	Network Security II
June 5	Malware and Cybercrime
June 7	Hardware Security: Spectre, Meltdown and Rowhammer Also see: Schwarz and Lipps Spectre/Meltdown talk
June 9	Final Exam: WLH 2001, 3:00pm–5:59pm