Numbers in the reading are chapter numbers in the textbook.
Many slides are borrowed from Prof. Shmatikov's Network Security and Privacy course. Many thanks to Prof. Shmatikov.
Week | Date | Topics and due dates | Reading |
Week 1 | Aug. 25 | Course outline and Questionnaire | Sites Feed Personal Details To New Tracking Industry |
Week 2 | Aug. 30 | Stream Cipher | 2.3~2.4 |
Sep. 1 | Wireless security | On Google And Other Misunderstood Wireless Data Collectors Cafe Latte Attack 6.1 | |
Week 3 | Sep. 6 | Labor day - no class | |
Sep. 8 | Secure Hash Functions | 3.2 | |
Week 4 | Sep. 13 | Definition of Security Service Lab Proposal due | 1.1~1.6 |
Sep. 15 | MAC using hash, Symmetric Encryption for Confidentiality | 3.1, 3.3, 2.1~2.2 | |
Week 5 | Sep. 20 | Cookies | |
Sep. 22 | Public-key cryptography Lab 1 WEP crack due | 3.4~3.5 | |
Week 6 | Sep. 27 | Public-key infrastructure & PGP | 3.6,4.3~4.6,7.1 |
Sep. 29 | Passwords | 9.3 | |
Oct. 1 | Assignment 1 due | ||
Week 7 | Oct. 4 | Review for midterm | |
Oct. 6 | Midterm | ||
Week 8 | Oct. 11 | Fall break - no class | |
Oct. 13 | Privacy in Health Data Class continues to Cancer research, Translational Medicine Service Lab detailed proposal due | Privacy Interests in Prescription data Part I: Prescriber Privacy, Part II: Patient Privacy available in Blackboard | |
Week 9 | Oct. 18 | SSL/TLS | 5.1~5.5 |
Oct. 20 | Firewalls (slides in Blackboard) | 11.1~11.7 | |
Week 10 | Oct. 25 | Intrusion Detection (slides in Blackboard) | 9.1~9.2 |
Oct. 27 | k-Anonymity Assignment 2 due | Readings in Blackboard | |
Week 11 | Nov. 1 | De-anoymization | Myths and fallacies of "personally identifiable information" De-anonymizing Netflix and Social Networks, FAQs here and here |
Nov. 3 | Spam filtering Guest lecture by Peter Likarish Lab 2 code snippet due | Graham, A plan for spam Graham, Better Bayesian Filtering Google, Spam Explained | |
Week 12 | Nov. 8 | Economics and Privacy Denial of Service attack | Nudging Privacy: The Behavioral Economics of Personal Information in BB 10.5 |
Nov. 10 | IPSec&IKE Service Lab progress report due | 8.1~8.6 | |
Nov. 12 | Lab 2 report due | ||
Week 13 | Nov. 15 | Cross Site/Channel Scripting | The emergence of cross channel scripting |
Nov. 17 | RF-ID & Location privacy HIPAA | On Locational Privacy, and How to Avoid Losing it Forever. Panopticon revisited HIPAA Security Enforcement Is Here Heuristics for de-identifying health data in BB | |
Week 14 | Nov. 22 | Buffer overflow exploits | Readings in BB |
Nov. 24 | Malicious Software Assignment 3 due | 10.1~10.4 | |
Week 15 | Nov. 29 | Biometrics and CAPTCHA | |
Dec. 1 | Privacy Protection by Law guest lecture by Prof. Susan Freiwald | A First Principles Approach to Communications' Privacyby Prof. Freiwald Freiwald on Much-Anticipated Cell Location Privacy Decision | |
Week 16 | Dec. 6 | Service Lab presentations | |
Dec. 8 | Review for Final exam | ||
Final week | Dec. 13 | Final exam at 3pm |