All notes are in HTML format. Topics subject to change.
| Date |
Topic |
| Thursday, 1/18 |
Course Introduction |
| Tuesday, 1/23 |
Proprietary, Free, and Open Source Software (w./ Linux and Knoppix Tutorials) |
| Thursday, 1/25 |
Social Engineering |
| Tuesday, 1/30 |
Cryptography and Networking |
| Thursday, 2/1 |
Computer Security Terminologies and Fundamentals |
| Tuesday, 2/6 |
Malware As You Know It |
| Thursday, 2/8 |
Security Tools |
| Tuesday, 2/13 |
Privacy |
| Thursday, 2/15 |
Protect Yourself |
| Tuesday, 2/20 |
Databases and Data Security |
| Thursday, 2/22 |
NO CLASS |
| Tuesday, 2/27 |
Musings: From Recent Government Actions to Don't Get Caught Hacking |
| Thursday, 3/1 |
Complex Attacks: Buffer Overflow, Denial of Service (DoS), and Rootkits |
| Tuesday, 3/6 |
Copyrights, Intellectual Property, and Digital Rights Management (DRM) |
| Thursday, 3/8 |
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Technologies |
| Tuesday, 3/13 |
Software Insecurity: Breaking Software and Reverse Engineering |
| Thursday, 3/15 |
EXPERT PANEL SESSION: Security and Privacy in Higher Education: Current and Future Challenges |
| Tuesday, 3/20 |
SPRING BREAK |
| Thursday, 3/22 |
SPRING BREAK |
| Tuesday, 3/27 |
Secure Software Development, Part 1 |
| Thursday, 3/29 |
Secure Software Development, Part 2 |
| Tuesday, 4/3 |
Wireless Technologies and Location-Based Privacy |
| Thursday, 4/5 |
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Tags |
| Tuesday, 4/10 |
More Politics |
| Thursday, 4/12 |
Electronic Voting |
| Tuesday, 4/17 |
Regulatory Compliance |
| Thursday, 4/19 |
DEBATE: Vulnerability Disclosure |
| Tuesday, 4/24 |
Digital Investigations and Forensics |
| Thursday, 4/26 |
Looking Ahead and Putting It All Together (LAST DAY OF CLASS) |