Due by class means due at the time class starts. For example, if your section’s class starts at 1:00pm, then “Monday by class” means 1pm on Monday. This gives our TA an opportunity to spot-check the submissions and fix any submission issues when everyone’s together.

Schedule

• • Week
  • Dates
  • Lecture & Activities
  • Vulnerability of the Day
  • Due or Released
  • Reading
• • 1
  • Aug 24 — Aug 28
  • Course Overview,
    Introduction:
    What is Secure?
    Security Principles & Lifecycle
  • Integer Overflow
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  • CWE-190 CWE-120
• • 2
  • Aug 31 - Sep 05
  • Web Security Overview,
    DVWA activity
    Penetration Testing
  • Buffer Overflow, SQL injection, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
  • Fuzzer released.
  • CWE-89 CWE-79
• • 3
  • Sep 07 - Sep 11
  • No class Monday Sep 07 (Labor Day)
    Requirements: Misuse & Abuse Cases
    Requirements & planning activity
  • Cross-site request forgery (CSRF), OS command injection
  • Fuzzer iteration 0 due Sunday EOD
  • CWE-352 CSRF Description CWE-78
• • 4
  • Sep 14 - Sep 18
  • Planning: risk assessment,
    Environment: file system permissions,
    Design: threat modeling.
  • Path traversal, log overflow
  • Fuzzer iteration 1 due Sunday EOD
  • CWE-22 CWE-400 CWE-779 CWE-770
• • 5
  • Sep 21 - Sep 25
  • Threat modeling activity
    Design: distrustful decomposition,
    Implementation: defensive coding practices (part 1)
  • XML embedded DTDs
  • Fuzzer iteration 2 due Sunday EOD.
  • CWE-827 CWE-776 CWE-611
• • 6
  • Sep 28 - Oct 02
  • Implementation: defensive coding practices (part 2),
    Catch up.
  • Hardcoded credentials
  • File Permissions myCourses Quiz AND Practice Quiz due Wed Sep 30 by class. In-Class Exam 1 Fri Oct 02 Takehome exam released with in-class exam.
  • CWE-798 CVSS v3 Spec
• • 7
  • Oct 05 - Oct 09
  • Vulnerability assessment: CVSS.
    CVSS activity.
  • Time of Check Time of Use (TOCTOU), Log neutralization
  • Takehome portion of exam due Monday by class. Input Handling project released.
  • CWE-367 CWE-117 CWE-93 CAPEC-93
• • 8
  • Oct 12 - Oct 16
  • No classes Oct 12&13 Cryptography: authentication, public & symmetric keys, SSH, SSL, PGP.
    Side-channel attacks.
  • Hashing without salt
  • Input Handling project parts 0, 1, 2 due Friday EOD.
  • CWE-759 Salting Guide
• • 9
  • Oct 19 - Oct 23
  • Cryptography: continued.
    Supply-chain attacks.
  • Poor PRNG seed protection, Insecure PRNG algorithms
  • Input Handling project all parts due Friday EOD. IPC Project released
  • CWE-338 OAuth Spec CWE-470
• • 10
  • Oct 26 - Oct 30
  • Deployment & Distribution: patching, security managers.
    Usability and Security; OAuth activity.
  • Regex DOS, Java reflection abuse
  • IPC Project due Sunday by EOD.
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• • 11
  • Nov 02 - Nov 06
  • Catch up / Exam Review Wed / Exam 2 Fri Nov 06.
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• • 12
  • Nov 09 - Nov 13
  • Insider Threat.
  • Compression bombs. Uncontrolled format string.
  • Case Study recon Wed Apr 08.
  • CWE-409 Compression Bombs
• • 13
  • Nov 16 - Nov 20
  • Networking: OSI model.
  • Cache poisoning
  • Case Study Chapter 1 due Wed by class; review in class
  • CWE-134 CAPEC-141 Video: DNS Cache Poisoning
• • 14
  • Nov 23 - Nov 27
  • No classes Nov 25-27
    Networking: continued.
  • Dynamic library side-loading
  • Case Study Chapter 2 review is canceled unless Monday is free.
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• • 15
  • Nov 30 - Dec 04
  • Mon Nov 30: Last day of class. Case Study presentations.
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  • All makeup work due by Monday.
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  • Thur Dec 10
  • 4:15pm-6:45pm In-person, in GOL-1640 (unless you have arranged otherwise with Prof. Basham)
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