CSE 634 Network/System Attack Methods (Spring 2002)
Course Topics
- Buffer/heap overflow
- TCP/IP vulnerabilities
- ICMP threats
- Social engineering
- Virus
- DOS and DDOS attacks
- Software reverse engineering
- Tamper resistance
- Password cracking
- DEF CON presentations
- Bugtraq, 2600, and Phreak articles
- Intrusion detection systems' weakness
Possible Class Project Topics
- Binary rewriting for buffer overflow defense
- Fast intrusion damage repair
- Attack traffic source identification
- Centralized TCP/IP architecture
- Network-wide process tracing
- Gigabit/sec packet filtering
- Performance optimization of Nmap, Snort, and Ethereal
- Security protocol code generation
- Software obfuscation using encryption
- Computer forensics
- Intelligent patch system