G CS498 Cyber Security


Lectures
 
Date
Lecture No.
Slides
1/17/06 1 Course Introduction (pdf) OS Support for Secure Code (pdf)
1/19/06 2 Introduction to the lab. Overview
1/24/06 3 Discretionary access control in Windows and Linux, and a discussion of new Vista security features. Slides (pdf)
1/26/06 4 Lab exercise using Windows discretionary access control. ACL lab scenario
1/30/06 5 Mandatory Access Control mechanisms in SE Linux. (pdf)
2/2/06 6 SE Linux in the lab. Class notes
2/7/06 7 SE Linux in the lab again.
2/9/06 8 Malware techniques including buffer overflows, return to libc, string format errors, and heap overflow. slides (pdf). In addition to readings listed in slides look at Steve Hanna's Shellcoding page.
2/14/06 9 Malware protection techniques ( pdf )
2/16/06 10 Introduction to security issues in IPv4 ( pdf )
2/21/06 11 Network security exercise in the lab. Notes on using dsniff Internet Storm Center Notes on DNS Poisoning Attack
2/23/06 12 Firewall technology. ( pdf)
2/28/06 13 Firewalls in the lab
3/2/06 14 - Guest Lecture Jodie Boyer will discuss the security and privacy issues associated with building control systems.
3/7/06 15 Updates from SE Linux Symposium (pdf) and more firewalls in the lab.
3/9/06 16 IPSec and other tunneling technologies ( pdf)
3/14/06 17 - Guest Lecture Chad Hanson from Trusted Computer Solutions will talk about using SE Linux and other security systems to build secure systems for military and other high assurance environments.
3/16/06 18 IPv6 security issues (pdf)
3/28/06 19 IPSec in the lab
3/30/06 20 - Guest Lecture Himanshu Khurana from NCSA will talk about setting up a PKI lab and lead a demonstration using biometrics that uses the infrastructure. Class will meet at NCSA.
4/4/06 21 Alan Carroll will talk about security issues in open online communities. In particular, he will talk about his experience in combating junkers in the web log community. Overview of comment spam Write up on Alan's blog defenses
4/6/06 Class canceled Will meet with groups about group projects
4/11/06 22 Wireless the lab. (pdf)
4/13/06 23 Intrusion Detection(pdf) and Network Security Architectures (pdf)
4/18/06 24 Mike Corn head of CITES security speaking about the effect of the newly extended CALEA on university security
4/20/06 25 Network IDS in the lab.
4/25/06 26 Security in E-Payments(pdf)
4/27/06 27 Group presentations: Security research environment
5/3/06 28 Group presentations: Collaborative information sharing