General Information
Instructor
Teaching Assistant
Overview
This course is designed to provide students with good understanding of the theories, principles, techniques and tools used for software and system hacking and hardening. Students will study, in-depth, binary reverse engineering, vulnerability classes, vulnerability analysis, exploit and shellcode development, defensive solutions, etc. to understand how to crack and protect native software. In particular, this class covers offensive techniques including stack-based buffer overflow, heap security, format string vulnerability, return-oriented programming, etc. This class also covers defensive techniques including canary, shadow stack, address space layout randomization, control-flow integrity, etc. A key part of studying security is putting skills to the test in practice. Hacking challenges known as Capture The Flag (CTF) competitions are a great way to do this. In this class the progress of students are evaluated by lab assignment and in-class Capture-The-Flag (CTF) competitions. The course can be used to satisfy the MS project requirement.
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Tentative Schedule
Date | Topic | Notes |
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Week-1 8/30 | Overview and Background Knowledge Slides Code HW Video UB YouTube | |
Week-2 9/6 | Labor Day Observed -- No class HW2 | |
Week-3 9/13 | ELF and Buffer Overflow Slides Code HW YouTube | |
Week-4 9/20 | Buffer Overflow Slides Code HW YouTube | |
Week-5 9/27 | Buffer Overflow Slides Code HW YouTube | |
Week-6 10/4 | Buffer Overflow and Defense Slides Code HW YouTube | |
Week-7 10/11 | Buffer Overflow Defense and Shellcode Slides HW YouTube | |
Week-8 10/18 | Written Midterm and Midterm CTF HW | |
Week-9 10/25 | Shellcode and Format String Slides HW YouTube | |
Week-10 11/1 | Format String Slides HW YouTube | |
Week-11 11/8 | ROP Slides HW YouTube | |
Week-12 11/15 | ROP Slides HW YouTube | |
Week-13 11/22 | Cache side-channel, meltdown, spectre Slides HW YouTube | |
Week-14 11/29 | Heap Exploitation Slides HW YouTube | |
Week-15 12/6 | TBD |