ICS: UVa specific material, summer 2021

Go up to the main ICS readme (md)

Much of the rest of this git repo is meant to be generic to anybody who has a class such as this one. But this page contains details specific to the specific version of the course at the University of Virginia.

Links

There are a number of links and other parts of this course that are NOT included in this repository. They are:

• Any concerns you have should be handled via a support request (Netbadge login required)
• Assignment submission is through the Gradescope tool in Collab
• Grading guidelines, which are available in the Collab wiki (here is the direct link; Collab login is required)
• Email list archive, which is a Collab tool (here is the direct link; Collab login is required)
• The Piazza forum for this course; Collab can log you in directly – the Collab tool link is here (again, Collab login required)
• Anonymous feedback, which is through Collab
• The VirtualBox image (not yet ready) used for this course. For how to install it, see here.

The parts of this course that are in this repo are:

• Course syllabus (md)
• Daily announcements
• Homework policies page (md)
• Final course grade determination (md)

Readings

All scholarly articles (such as from the ACM digital library) can be obtained from free from any UVa wireless network. Some of them you will NOT be able to get it for free from your home Internet provider such as Comcast (unless you live in a UVa dorm, of course) without using a UVa VPN. All readings are due by the start of lecture that day.

• Due Tuesday, June 15th:
  • Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit, available online in HTML and PDF (a copy of the PDF is in Collab’s resources as well)
• Due Monday, June 7th:
  • NPR’s Planet Monday episode 908: I Am Not A Robot
• Due Tuesdady, June 1st:
  • An Introduction to Cybersecurity Ethics: you can skip the questions (the blue boxes therein); once you remove those, the table of contents, and the appendices, it’s about 35 typed pages
• Due Tuesday, June 1st: An Introduction to Cybersecurity Ethics: you can skip the questions (the blue boxes therein); once you remove those, the table of contents, and the appendices, it’s about 35 typed pages
• Due Thursday, May 27th:
  • ACM Code of Ethics
  • Reflections on Trusting Trust
  • Morris Worm Wikipedia page

Homeworks

Unless otherwise noted, all submissions are due by the end of the day of the due date given – this means by 11:59:59 pm. The late policies are discussed in the homework policies page (md). Submission is through the Gradescope Collab tool – all submissions should open up 2 days (i.e., 48 hours) prior to the due date/time.

• HW 6: Cryptocurrency is due Friday, June 11th
• HW 5: SQL/XSS/CSRF is due Tuesday, June 8th
• HW 4: RSA (md) is due Thursday, June 3rd
• HW 3: Ethics (md) is due Monday, May 31st
• HW 2: Policy (md) is due Friday, May 28th
• HW 1: Rational Paranoia (md) is due Wednesday, May 26th

Lecture progress

Each day has two lectures to view that day.

1. Mon, May 24: course introduction (synchronous, not pre-recorded); security mindset
2. Tue, May 25: security mindset, terminology
3. Wed, May 26: terminology, policy
4. Thu, May 27: ethics
5. Fri, May 28: encryption
6. Tue, Jun 1: encryption
7. Wed, Jun 2: encryption
8. Thu, Jun 3: encryption, networking overview, web security
9. Fri, Jun 4: web security, web security
10. Sat, Jun 5: sql/xss/csrf (and the first midterm)
11. Mon, Jun 7: web security, cryptocurrency
12. Tue, Jun 8: cryptocurrency, anonymity
13. Wed, Jun 9: anonymity, stuxnet
14. Thu, Jun 10: virtual machines, rootkits
15. Fri, Jun 11: rootkits, viruses
16. Sat, Jun 12: viruses, buffer overflow
17. Mon, Jun 14: buffer overflow, binary exploits
18. Tue, Jun 15: binary exploits, digital forensics
19. Wed, Jun 16: digital forensics, course conclusion (synchronous, not pre-recorded)