CSCI 8260 - Computer Network Attacks and Defenses

Fall 2014

This is the course calendar for the Fall 2014 semester. Please notice that the schedule is not definitive and will be updated as the course progresses. Students are responsible for visiting this page often to stay informed on the latest reading assignments and other information. Of course, I will also inform you of significant changes during the lectures, but this page is the one place you should refer to for all the details.

Date	Topic	Lecture / Reading Assignments	Other Assignments
8/19	Syllabus	CSCI-8260 Syllabus [slides]	Subscribe to mailing list CSCI8260-F14@listserv.cc.uga.edu Introduce yourself via email.
8/20	Intro	Introduction to Computer and Network Security
8/21	Intro	Introduction to Computer and Network Security [slides]
8/26	Intro	Introduction to Computer and Network Security	Choose 3 papers from the following list
8/27	Topics	Introduction to Computer and Network Security
8/28	Topics	Overview of Research Topics
9/2	Topics	Overview of Research Topics
9/3	Topics	Overview of Research Topics [slides]
9/4	Networks	Networking concepts (HTTP)	Prepare short presentation of your reseaerch project (by 9/10); Send me the slides!
9/9	Networks	Networking concepts (SMTP, DNS) [slides]	Refer to project presentation guidelines
9/10	Networks	Networking concepts (DNS)
9/11	ML	Brief introduction to Pattern Recognition/Machine Learning concepts
9/16	ML	Brief introduction to Pattern Recognition/Machine Learning concepts
9/17	ML	Brief introduction to Pattern Recognition/Machine Learning concepts [slides]
9/18	ML	Brief introduction to Pattern Recognition/Machine Learning concepts Student research project presentations.
9/23	Projects	Student research project presentations.
9/24	Botnets	G. Gu, R. Perdisci, J. Zhang, W. Lee. BotMiner: clustering analysis of network traffic for protocol- and structure-independent botnet detection. USENIX'08: Proceedings of the 17th conference on Security symposium. Presenter: Prof. Perdisci [slides]	Read the papers before presentation!
9/25	Malware detection	R. Perdisci, W. Lee, and N. Feamster. Behavioral Clustering of HTTP-based Malware and Signature Generation using Malicious Network Traces. USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2010. Presenter: Prof. Perdisci [slides]
9/30	DNS-based malware detection	Manos Antonakakis, Roberto Perdisci, Yacin Nadji, Nikolaos Vasiloglou, Saeed Abu-Nimeh, Wenke Lee, David Dagon. "From Throw-Away Traffic to Bots: Detecting the Rise of DGA-Based Malware". USENIX Security Symposium, 2012. Prof. Perdisci [slides]
10/1	Malware downlaod defenses	P. Vadrevu, B. Rahbarinia, R. Perdisci, K. Li, M. Antonakakis. "Measuring and Detecting Malware Downloads in Live Network Traffic." 18th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2013. Presenter: Prof. Perdisci [slides]
10/2	Search Poisoning	L. Lu, R. Perdisci, W. Lee. SURF: Detecting and Measuring Search Poisoning. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, ACM CCS 2011 Presenter: Prof. Perdisci [slides]
10/7	Botnet takedown	B. Stone-Gross, M. Cova, L. Cavallaro, B. Gilbert, M. Szydlowski, R. Kemmerer, C. Kruegel, G. Vigna. Your botnet is my botnet: analysis of a botnet takeover. CCS '09: Proceedings of the 16th ACM conference on Computer and communications security. PRESENTER: David
10/8	Android Malware	Yajin Zhou, Xuxian Jiang Dissecting Android Malware: Characterization and Evolution IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2012 PRESENTER: Sneha
10/9	Android security	Adrienne Porter Felt et al. Android Permissions Demystified ACM conference on Computer and communications security, 2011 PRESENTER: Collin	Write a short review (2 pages) for one of the papers discussed this week. (deadline 10/13)
10/14	Passwords	Joseph Bonneau, Cormac Herley, Paul C. van Oorschot, Frank Stajano The quest to replace passwords: a framework for comparative evaluation of Web authentication schemes IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2012 PRESENTER: Michael
10/15		Guest Lecture: Prof. Kyu Hyung Lee
10/16		Guest Lecture: Prof. Kang Li
10/21		Guest Lecture: Chris Neasbitt -- WebCapsule
10/22		Guest Lecture: Prof. Kyu Hyung Lee
10/23		Guest Lecture: Chris Neasbitt -- ClickMiner
10/28	Network attacks	Z. Qian and Z. Morley Mao Off-Path TCP Sequence Number Inference Attack -- How Firewall Middleboxes Reduce Security IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2012 PRESENTER: Jienan
10/29		Student research project presentations (progress report).
10/30	Spam	K. Levchenko et al. Click Trajectories: End-to-End Analysis of the Spam Value Chain IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2011 PRESENTER: Brandon	Write a short review (2 pages) for one of the papers discussed this week. (deadline 11/04)
11/4		Guest Lecture: Babak Rahabarinia -- PeerRush
11/5		Guest Lecture: Babak Rahabarinia -- Segugio
11/6		Guest Lecture: Babak Rahabarinia -- WiFi Attacks
11/11	Spam	Kurt Thomas, Chris Grier, Justin Ma, Vern Paxson, Dawn Song Design and Evaluation of a Real-Time URL Spam Filtering Service IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2011 PRESENTER: Sneha
11/12	Botnets	Y. Xie, F. Yu, K. Achan, R. Panigrahy, G. Hulten, and I. Osipkov. Spamming Botnets: Signatures and Characteristics. SIGCOMM'08. PRESENTER: David
11/13	Data privacy	R. Geambasu, T. Kohno, A. Levy, H. M. Levy. Vanish: Increasing Data Privacy with Self-Destructing Data. In Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium 2009. PRESENTER: Collin	Write a short review (2 pages) for one of the papers discussed this week. (deadline 11/18)
11/18	Systems security	C. Cowan, P. Wagle, C. Pu, S. Beattie, J. Walpole. Buffer overflows: attacks and defenses for the vulnerability of the decade. Foundations of Intrusion Tolerant Systems, 2003 PRESENTER: Brandon
11/19	Malware analysis	H. Yin, D. Song, M. Egele, C. Kruegel, and E. Kirda. Panorama: capturing system-wide information flow for malware detection and analysis. CCS '07: Proceedings of the 14th ACM conference on Computer and communications security. PRESENTER: Jienan
11/20	Side channels	S. Jana et al. Memento: Learning Secrets from Process Footprints IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2012 PRESENTER: Michael	Write a short review (2 pages) for one of the papers discussed this week. (deadline 11/25)
12/2		Final Student Research Project Presentations
12/3		Final Student Research Project Presentations
12/4		Final Student Research Project Presentations	Submit final research paper by 11:59pm on December 11, 2014. Important: Use LaTeX!
		Participate to Student Course Evaluations (December 1 at 9:00am to December 10, at 11:59pm)