COM-301: Computer security and privacy

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Lectures in this course (60)

Explores the importance of privacy in democratic societies and the shared security infrastructure across individuals, industry, and governments.

Privacy: What is privacy

Delves into privacy definitions, technical concerns, PETS, GDPR, and anti-surveillance privacy.

Privacy Technologies: End-to-End Encryption and Metadata Protection

Explores end-to-end encryption, metadata sensitivity, and the role of traffic analysis in intelligence gathering.

Privacy Technologies: Some Privacy Technologies (part II)

Explores anonymous communication systems, attribute-based credentials, the Tor network, and other privacy technologies.

Malware: Introduction

Introduces the basics of malware, its distribution, reasons for its rise, and taxonomy.

Malware: Types of malware

Explores various types of malware, defenses against them, and real-world examples like Stuxnet worm targeting Iran's nuclear power plants.

Malware: Botnets

Explores botnets, networks of compromised hosts controlled by a single entity, and defense strategies against them, highlighting the impact of malicious software.

Digital Proximity Tracing: SwissCovid Protocol

Covers the SwissCovid protocol for digital proximity tracing and access control mechanisms like DAC and MAC.

Security Design Principles: Preliminaries

Covers basic security concepts, adversarial thinking, security mechanisms, and responsible conduct in security design principles.

Mandatory Access Control: Principles and Security Models

Explores Mandatory Access Control principles, security models, the Chinese Wall model, covert communication channels, and the importance of sanitization in business.

Applied Cryptography: Symmetric Encryption and Hash Functions

Introduces symmetric encryption, hash functions, and their practical applications in cryptography.

Asymmetric Cryptography and Password-based Authentication

Covers asymmetric cryptography, hybrid encryption, Diffie-Hellman key exchange, authentication challenges, secure password storage, and transfer methods.

Biometrics & Tokens: Advantages, Authentication, & Adversarial Reasoning

Explores biometrics, tokens, authentication processes, and adversarial reasoning in security engineering.

Adversarial Reasoning: Threat Modeling and CWEs

Explores threat modeling, CWE database, and software vulnerabilities like OS Injection and Cross-site Scripting.

Software Security: Memory Safety and Execution Attacks

Covers memory safety, execution attacks, vulnerabilities, and defense mechanisms in software security.

Security Testing and Spoofing

Covers security testing techniques, spoofing vulnerabilities, encryption bans, and network security properties.

Network Security: DNS, BGP, IP, TCP, TLS

Covers IP routing, DNS spoofing, BGP security weaknesses, and defense mechanisms against network attacks.

Network Security: DoS and Privacy Introduction

Explores network security, DoS attacks, privacy importance, and practical defense strategies against cyber threats.

Privacy: Protecting Personal Data and Ensuring Anonymity

Explores risks of data exposure and strategies for defending privacy.

Malware: Types, Defense, and Botnets

Explores various malware types, spread mechanisms, defense strategies, and network security implications.

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