General Information¶
Course description¶
This course covers advanced techniques for writing exploits and patching vulnerabilities, taught through an intense, hands-on security laboratory. A significant part of this course involves solving Capture-The-Flag (CTF) and discussing strategies for solving such problems. This course covers a variety of topics including (but not limited to) reverse engineering, exploitation, binary analysis, and web.
Prerequisite¶
Operating systems or equivalent (e.g., CS 3210 at GT).
Class meetings¶
- When: F 15:05-17:45 (3:05pm-5:45pm)
- Where: Room 102 in the College of Computing Building
Office hours and recitation¶
We have an optional recitation (and office hours) from 18:00-19:00 in CoC 053 on Mon and in CoC 052 on Wed, every week.
Who should take CS 6265-seclab?¶
CS-6265 is primarily intended for motivated seniors and graduate students who are interested in learning the skill sets necessary to participate in CTF competitions (e.g., DEFCON CTF).
Grading policy¶
- 100% Lab.
- If you didn’t turn in a single (full) lab, you will get an F.
- No midterm or final exams.
- 40%: A, 30-40%: B, 30-20%: C and below (in each group).
- Three groups: undergraduate, masters and PhD students
- See Game Rules.
Online Discussion¶
Online discussion is strongly encouraged and it will help you a lot in solving lab problems. Please join Piazza and post your questions, ideas and thoughts.
Misconduct Policy¶
CS8803 provides a week of a grace period (50% points after due date) and we strictly follow the cheating policy (read GT’s Academic Misconduct Policy).
Important
Cheating vs. collaboration
Collaboration is a very good thing. On the other hand, cheating is considered a very serious offense and is vigorously prosecuted. Vigorous prosecution requires that you be advised of the cheating policy of the course before the offending act.
- For this semester, the policy is simple: don’t cheat:
- Never share code or text on the project.
- Never use someone else’s code or text in your solutions.
- Never consult project code or text that might be on the Internet.
- On the other hand, for this class, you are strongly encouraged to:
- Share ideas.
- Explain your code to someone to see if they know why it doesn’t work.
- Help someone else debug if they’ve run into a wall.
If you obtain help of any kind, always write the name(s) of your sources.
(ref. http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse451/15au/)
Don’t publish or post your work online (e.g., github). Any violation of these rules would result in F in your grade.
Staff/TA¶
- TAs: Fan Sang, Seulbae Kim, Ren Ding, Jung-Won Lim, Yonghwi Jin
- Feel free to send us an email to make an appointment (mailto:staff)