Foundations of Software Security
USF CIS 6373, Spring 2018
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Schedule (filled in as the semester progresses)
| Dates | Topics | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| 01/09 | Introduction | Class notes |
| 01/11 | Enforceability theory | Sections 1-2 of Enforceable Security Policies |
| 01/16 | Enforceability theory | Enforceable Security Policies (all) |
| 01/18 | Enforceability theory | Sections 1-2 of Run-time Enforcement of Nonsafety Policies |
| 01/23 | Enforceability theory | Run-time Enforcement of Nonsafety Policies (all, but please don't worry about the details; as always, read to get the main ideas) |
| 01/25 | Enforceability theory | Sections 1-3 of Modeling Runtime Enforcement with Mandatory Results Automata |
| 01/30 | Enforceability theory | Sections 1-5 and 8 of Modeling Runtime Enforcement with Mandatory Results Automata |
| 02/01 | Enforceability theory | A Theory of Gray Security Policies |
| 02/06 | Policy specification and composition | Sections 1-3 of Composing Expressive Run-time Security Policies (article is accessible from the USF campus network) |
| 02/08 | Policy visualization | (reading handed out in class) |
| 02/13 | Location-based policies and mobile-device security | A Location-based Policy-specification Language for Mobile Devices (article is accessible from the USF campus network) |
| 02/15 | Firewall policies; Packet classification | A Packet-classification Algorithm for Arbitrary Bitmask Rules, with Automatic Time-space Tradeoffs |
| 02/20 | Vulnerability trends; Buffer overflows | (1) Please look over, and try to get the high-level information from: 2011 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors; (2) then please study StackGuard: Automatic Adaptive Detection and Prevention of Buffer-Overflow Attacks |
| 02/22 | ASLR and related mechanisms | Breaking the memory secrecy assumption (paper should be accessible from the USF campus network) |
| 02/27 | Code-injection attacks: XSS and HTML5 | Code Injection Attacks on HTML5-based Mobile Apps: Characterization, Detection and Mitigation |
| 03/01 | Code-injection attacks | Sections 1-4 of Defining Code-injection Attacks |
| 03/06 | Noncode-injection attacks | Defining Injection Attacks |
| 03/08 | DDoS (viewing protocols as programs, much of network security is software security) | (1) IP Spoofing (2) Memcrashed (3) GitHub Engineering Feb 28th DDoS Incident Report |
| 03/20 | Student presentations | (Project-proposal presentations) |
| 03/22 | Student presentations | (Project-proposal presentations) |
| 03/27 | Control-flow integrity | Sections 1-5 of Control-Flow Integrity: Principles, Implementations, and Applications |
| 03/29 | Control-flow integrity; ROP | Losing Control: On the Effectiveness of Control-Flow Integrity under Stack Attacks |
| 04/03 | Information flow; Noninterference | Principles of Secure Information Flow Analysis |
| 04/05 | Quantitative Information Florw | Recent Developments in Quantitative Information Flow (please feel free to skip Sections III-V, to save time) |
| 04/10 | Temperature (hot) attacks | Using Memory Errors to Attack a Virtual Machine |
| 04/12 | Temperature (cold) attacks | Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys |
| 04/17 | DRM | Lessons from the Sony CD DRM Episode |
| 04/19 | Trustworthiness | Reflections on Trusting Trust |
| 04/24 | Student presentations | (Final presentations) |