CSE 127: Computer Security
Syllabus
Unless explicitly marked as Optional, all readings are considered required.
Date |
Topic |
Mar 30 |
Introduction |
Apr 1 |
Threat Modeling and Risk
Read by today: Thompson, Reflections on Trusting Trust
Mickens, This World of Ours
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Apr 6 |
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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Apr 8 |
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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Apr 13 |
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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Apr 15 |
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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Apr 20 |
System security I: Isolation and Privilege
Jaeger, Security in Ordinary Operating Systems
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Apr 22 |
System security II: Side channels (also slides excerpted from Schwarz and Lipp)
Anderson, Security Engineering, Chap 19, Side Channels
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Apr 27 |
Crypto I
Security Engineering, Chapter 5
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Apr 29 |
Midterm: on Canvas
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May 4 |
Crypto II: Key distribution
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May 6 |
Web Security I
Deian Stefan's lecture notes on CSRF, XSS and SQLi, SQL injection
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May 11 |
Web Security II
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May 13 |
Cancelled
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May 18 |
Network Security I
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May 20 |
Network Security II
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May 25 |
User Authentication
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May 27 |
Malware I
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June 1 |
Malware II/Cybercime |
June 3 |
Privacy, Law and Ethics |
June 8 |
Final Exam: On canvas (Tuesday, June 8th, 8am-10pm Pacific), 90mins long |