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