General Information

Course description

Advanced techniques for writing exploits and patching vulnerabilities will be taught through intense, hands-on security laboratory. A significant part of the course is to solve Capture-The-Flag (CTF) problems and discuss about strategies to solve them. This course covers a variety of topics that include reverse engineering, exploitation, binary analysis, cryptography, web and forensic.

Prerequisite

Operating system or equivalent (e.g., CS 3210 at GT).

Class meetings

Who should take CS 6265-seclab?

CS-6265 is primarily intended for motivated seniors and graduate students who are interested in learning skill sets to participate CTF competitions (e.g., DEFCON CTF).

Grading policy

  • 100% Lab.
  • If you didn’t turn in a single lab, you will get F.
  • No midterm and final exams.
  • See Game Rules

Online Discussion

Online discussion is strongly encouraged and it will help you a lot in solving lab problems. Feel free to Join Piazza and post your questions, ideas and thoughts.

Staff/TA

  • TA: Yeongjin Jang, Insu Yun and Meng Xu
  • Office hours: T/R 3:00pm-4:00pm, Klaus 3142, Taesoo Kim (mailto:taesoo)
  • Office hours: M/W 3:00pm-4:00pm, Klaus 3110, Meng Xu (mailto:meng)
  • Feel free to send us an email to make an appointment (mailto:staff)