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 This course provides a thorough understanding of the technical aspects of computer security. It covers network, operating system, and application software security. Computer laboratory projects provide exposure to various tools in a hands-on setting.
-Access Control - Identification, authentication, and authorisation; trust management.
+Access Control - Identification, authentication, and authorization.
-Network Security - attacks, intrusion detection, auditing and forensics, firewalls, malicious software, packet monitoring and other tools/techniques for finding network security related problems.
+Network Security - attacks, intrusion detection, auditing, firewalls, packet monitoring and other tools/techniques for finding network security related problems.
-Operating System Security - threats, vulnerability, and control, password management, accounts and privileges
+Operating System Security - threats, vulnerability scanning, password cracking, accounts and privileges
-Application Software Security - design of secure systems, evaluation, Java security, buffer overflows, database security, client-side and server-side securities, tamper resistant software and hardware, finding vulnerabilities, developing patches, patch distribution.
+Application Software Security - design of secure systems, Java security, buffer overflows, database security, client-side and server-side securities, tamper resistant software, finding vulnerabilities.
-Thinking Evil (understand the enemy so that you can design better software and systems) - how to build a virus, trojan, worm, (how to detect them and break them); real-world vulnerability detection.
 ===== Lectures =====
-  * Tuesdays and Thursdays, 17:30 - 19:00, CSEB 2007
+  * Mondays     17:30 - 19:00, CSEB 1002
+  * Wednesdays  17:30 - 19:00, CSEB 1002
 ===== Lab =====
-  * Fridays, 13:30 - 15:30, CSEB 2007
+  * Fridays, 18:00 - 20:00, CSEB 1002