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
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- Week
- Dates
- Lecture & Activities
- Vulnerability of the Day
- Due or Released
- Reading
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- 3
- Sep 8 - Sep 12
- Requirements: Misuse & Abuse Cases. Planning: risk assessment. Requirements & planning activity.
- OS command injection. Cross-site request forgery (CSRF)
- Fuzzer iteration 0 due Friday by class
- CWE-352 CSRF Description CWE-78
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- 6
- Sep 29 - Oct 3
- Implementation: defensive coding practices. Catch up.
- Hardcoded credentials
- File Permissions myCourses Quiz AND Practice Quiz due Friday Oct 3 by class. In-Class Exam 1 Friday Oct 3 Takehome exam released with in-class exam.
- CWE-798 CVSS v3 Spec
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- 8
- Oct 13 - Oct 17
- No class Monday Oct 14. CVSS activity. Cryptography: authentication, public & symmetric keys, SSH, SSL, PGP.
- Hashing without salt
- Input handling project parts 0, 1,2 due Wednesday by class.
- CWE-759 Salting Guide
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- 9
- Oct 20 - Oct 24
- OAuth activity. Side-channel attacks
- Poor PRNG seed protection, Insecure PRNG algorithms, Regex DOS
- Input handling all parts due Wednesday by class.
- CWE-338 OAuth Spec
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- 10
- Oct 27 - Oct 31
- Deployment & Distribution: patching. Usability and Security
- Java reflection abuse
- IPC Project released
- CWE-470
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- 11
- Nov 3 - Nov 7
- Insider Threat. Insider Threat Activity. Insider Threat Presentation
- Uncontrolled format string
- IPC project due Friday by class
- CWE-134
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- 12
- Nov 10 - Nov 14
- Supply-chain attacks. Exam Review. Exam 2 Friday Nov 14.
- Catch up
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- 13
- Nov 17 - Nov 21
- Case study recon. Networking: OSI model, MitM attacks, poisoning. Networking activity.
- Compression bombs. Cache poisoning. Open redirect.
- CWE-409 Compression Bombs CAPEC-141 Video: DNS Cache Poisoning
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- 14
- Nov 24 - Nov 28
- Cybersecurity policy and law. Case Study Chapter 1 Due Tuesday evening 11:59pm No class Wed or Fri
- Dynamic library side-loading
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- 15
- Dec 1 - Dec 5
- Code Inspection. Case study peer review activity Friday
- Case study chapter 2 due Friday by class.
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- 16
- Dec 8
- Monday Dec 8: Last day of class
- Final Case study revisions due Monday by class. All makeup work due by class.
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- TBD
- In-person