Practical Computer Security I

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction – Welcome to Practical Computer Security I

Lecture 2: What Computers Can and Cannot do and Security implications

Lecture 3: What Computers Can and Cannot do and Security implications – + presentation

Lecture 4: What computers can and cannot do continued (& applications to computer Security)

Chapter 2: e-mail and text messaging is insecure

Lecture 1: e-mail and text messaging is insecure

Chapter 3: A review of famous major security breaches of the past

Lecture 1: Famous and infamous security breaches of the past

Lecture 2: The story of infamous legendary hacker Kevin Mitnick

Lecture 3: In 1988 Robert Tappan Morris' Internet Worm caused havoc on the Internet

Lecture 4: Further incidents: "I LOVE YOU" worm, STUXNET, and the Target stores Data Theft

Lecture 5: Hacking the 2016 Presidential Election, incidents of Ransomware, and the Equifax

Chapter 4: Malware: we study the various kinds of malware that plague computers

Lecture 1: Malware – Introduction to the variety of malware that threaten computer security

Lecture 2: Computer Viruses.

Lecture 3: Computer Worms

Lecture 4: Trojans, Backdoors,Logic Bombs, Root kits and AutoRooters, Root Access

Lecture 5: Root Access continued

Lecture 6: More malware types: Downloaders, Zombies, Kits, Spyware, and Key Loggers

Lecture 7: More Malware: Spammers,Flooders, Adware

Chapter 5: Evaluating your risk — your computer security model

Lecture 1: Your Computer Security Model

Chapter 6: Perimeter Defense and Firewalls

Lecture 1: Ineternet -Intranet Perimeter defense –Firewalls

Lecture 2: Perimeter Defense continued –More on basics on Firewalls

Chapter 7: Protecting Data with Encryption – An Introduction to Cryptography

Lecture 1: Encryption

Lecture 2: AES-256, Public Key Cryptography, RSA, PGP, Key Exchange protocols

Lecture 3: Implications to Computer Security and Conclusions

Lecture 4: Crypto Concepts & Applications. Message Confidentiality v. Message Integrity

Lecture 5: Stream Ciphers and RC4

Lecture 6: Collision resistant hash functions, & their use to achieve Message Integrity

Lecture 7: SHA a Collision resistant hash function, and more on Public Key Cryptography

Lecture 8: Message Integrity with Public Key Cryptography, Digital Signatures, Key Exchange

Chapter 8: Intruder Detection

Lecture 1: Know Your Enemy: Categories of Intruders

Lecture 2: Patterns of Hacker behavior used in IDS to detect intruders

Chapter 9: Practical UNIX Security

Lecture 1: UNIX Security: Users and Files

Lecture 2: The role of TRUST in Computer Security

Lecture 3: Passwords and Access controls in UNIX

Lecture 4: Access Controls in UNIX

Lecture 5: Availability, Fault Isolation, Audit

Lecture 6: Physical Security and Alternatives to Passwords