Schedule

The schedule will change as the course progresses, in part based on student interests. If you are particularly interested in some topic not covered here, send mail to the course staff.

Submit your answers (and questions) for each lecture via email to the course staff, with the email subject format: [CS8803-EMS MM-DD] YOUR_NAME Assignment where MM is the two digit month, and DD is the two digit day. For example, the instructors first homework subject would be: [CS8803-EMS 08-22] Paul Pearce Assignment for the first lecture.

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Aug 21 Semester Begins	Aug 22 Discussion 1: Course logistics, Topic Introduction Preparation: Enroll. Slides	Aug 23	Aug 24 Discussion 2: Classics: Denial of Service Preparation: Inferring Internet Denial of Service Activity Writeups begin next week Slides	Aug 25 Last day to add
Aug 28	Aug 29 Discussion 3: Modern: Denial of Service Preparation: Understanding the Mirai Botnet Questions TBA.	Aug 30	Aug 31 Discussion 4: Classics: Traceback Preparation: Practical Network Support for IP Traceback Questions TBA.	Sep 1
Sep 4 Labor Day	Sep 5 Discussion 5: Classics: Inferring Activity Preparation: Timing Analysis of Keystrokes and Timing Attacks on SSH Questions TBA.	Sep 6	Sep 7 Discussion 6: Classics: Intrusion Detection Preparation: Bro: A System for Detecting Network Intruders in Real-Time Questions TBA.	Sep 8
Sep 11	Sep 12 Discussion 7: Classics: Baserate Preparation: The Base-Rate Fallacy and the Difficulty of Intrusion Detection Questions TBA.	Sep 13	Sep 14 Discussion 8: Spam Preparation: Spamalytics: An Empirical Analysis of Spam Marketing Conversion Understanding the Network-Level Behavior of Spammers Questions TBA.	Sep 15
Sep 18	Sep 19 Discussion 9: Botnets Preparation: Your Botnet is My Botnet: Analysis of a Botnet Takeover Questions TBA.	Sep 20	Sep 21 Discussion 10: Internet Scanning Preparation: ZMap: Fast Internet-Wide Scanning and its Security Applications A Search Engine Backed by Internet-Wide Scanning Questions TBA.	Sep 22
Sep 25	Sep 26 Project Pre Proposal Presentations 1	Sep 27	Sep 28 Project Pre Proposal Presentations 2	Sep 29
Oct 2	Oct 3 Discussion 11: The Underground Economy Preparation: Click Trajectories: End-to-End Analysis of the Spam Value Chain Questions TBA.	Oct 4	Oct 5 Discussion 12: Unwanted Software Preparation: Framing Dependencies Introduced by Underground Commoditization Investigating Commercial Pay-Per-Install and the Distribution of Unwanted Software Questions TBA.	Oct 6
Oct 9 Fall Recess	Oct 10 Fall Recess	Oct 11	Oct 12 Discussion 13: Ethics and Legality Preparation: Conducting Cybersecurity Research Legally and Ethically Encore: Lightweight Measurement of Web Censorship with Cross-Origin Requests Questions TBA.	Oct 13
Oct 16	Oct 17 Project Proposals Day 1	Oct 18	Oct 19 Project Proposals Day 2	Oct 20
Oct 23	Oct 24 No class, IMC 2022	Oct 25	Oct 26 No class, IMC 2022	Oct 27 Withdrawl deadline
Oct 30	Oct 31 Discussion 14: Real World Attacks Preparation: The Spyware Used in Intimate Partner Violence Questions TBA.	Nov 1	Nov 2 Discussion 15: Censorship Preparation: SoK: Towards Grounding Censorship Circumvention in Empiricism Optional: Augur: Internet-Wide Detection of Connectivity Disruptions Questions TBA.	Nov 3
Nov 6	Nov 7 Discussion 16: Nation-States Preparation: The Million Dollar Dissident. Questions TBA.	Nov 8	Nov 9 Discussion 17: TLS/HTTPS Preparation: Imperfect Forward Secrecy: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in Practice. Questions TBA.	Nov 10
Nov 13	Nov 14 Discussion 18: Cyber-Physical / Internet of Things Preparation: Comprehensive Experimental Analyses of Automotive Attack Surfaces. Questions TBA.	Nov 15	Nov 16 Discussion 19: Usability Preparation: Alice in Warningland: A Large-Scale Field Study of Browser Security. Questions TBA.	Nov 17
Nov 20	Nov 21 No Class	Nov 22 Holiday	Nov 23 Holiday	Nov 24 Holiday
Nov 27	Nov 28 No class, CCS 2023	Nov 29	Nov 30 No class, CCS 2023	Dec 1
Dec 4	Dec 5 Final Presentations	Dec 6	Dec 7	Dec 8
Dec 11	Dec 12	Dec 13	Dec 14 Projects Due. End of course. Have a good break!	Dec 15