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 In this project you will compare several efficient methods for solving polynomials.
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+====== MF7114 Assembler ======
+**Supervisor**: Zbigniew Stachniak
+**Required Background**:
+Some knowledge of microprocessor architecture and assembly programming
+__Description__
+Every microprocessor is supported by a variety of software tools, such as assemblers, disassemblers, and debuggers to allow the development and testing of application programs destined for that microprocessor. The purpose of an assembler is to translate a program written in the target CPU's assembly language into that CPU's machine language. The objective of this project is to write an assembler for the MF7114 microprocessor and test it on a recently written MF7114 emulator.
+Background Information: The MF7114 CPU was the first microprocessor designed and
+manufactured in Canada (by Microsystems International Ltd, or MIL) and one of the earliest microprocessors ever produced. The microprocessor was used, among other applications as the CPU of the CPS-1 microcomputer. Although none of the CPS/1 computers (nor MF7114 software) have survived, technical information about the microprocessor and the CPS-1 has been preserved. This makes the design and
+implementation of an assembler possible. More information on
+http://www.cse.yorku.ca/museum/collections/MIL/MIL.htm
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+====== MF7114 Debugger ======
+**Supervisor**: Zbigniew Stachniak
+**Required Background**:
+Some knowledge of microprocessor architecture and assembly programming
+__Description__
+Every microprocessor is supported by a variety of software tools, such as assemblers,disassemblers, and debuggers to allow the development and testing of application programs destined for that microprocessor. The purpose of an MF7114 debugger is to debug programs written in the assembly language of the MF7114 microprocessor. The objective of this project is to write an MF7114 debugger and test it on a recently written MF7114 emulator.
+Background Information: The MF7114 CPU was the first microprocessor designed and
+manufactured in Canada (by Microsystems International Ltd, or MIL) and one of the earliest microprocessors ever produced. The microprocessor was used, among other applications as the CPU of the CPS-1 microcomputer. Although none of the CPS/1 computers (nor MF7114 software) have survived, technical information about the microprocessor and the CPS-1 has been preserved. This makes the design and
+implementation of a debugger possible. More information on
+http://www.cse.yorku.ca/museum/collections/MIL/MIL.htm
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+======Web Crawlers Behaving Like Humans: Are We There Yet!? ======
+**Supervisor**: Natalija Vlajic
+**Required Background**: General prerequisites
+__Description__
+Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are recognized as one
+of the most serious threats to today's Internet due to the relative
+simplicity of their execution and their ability to severely degrade
+the quality at which Web-based services are offered to the end users.
+An especially challenging form of DDoS attacks are the so-called
+Application-Layer DDoS attacks. Namely:
+) In Application-Layer DDoS attacks, the attackers utilize a flood
+of legitimate-looking Layer-7 network sessions (i.e., sessions that
+are generally hard to detect and/or filter out by a firewall or an
+IDS system);
+) Increasingly, these sessions comprise HTML requests generated by a
+cleverly programmed crawler that executes a semi-random walk over the
+web site links, thereby attempting to appear as a legitimate human
+visitor.
+The goal of this project is to investigate the state of the art in
+malicious web crawler design. In particular, the project will look
+into the challenges of designing a smart-DDoS-crawler from the
+attacker point of view - one of these challenges being the estimation
+of web-page popularity assuming no a priori access to the web-logs
+of the victim web-site.
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+====== GFI Sandbox  Analysis of Malware for DDoS ======
+**Supervisor**: Natalija Vlajic
+**Required Background**: General prerequisites.
+__Description__
+GFI Sandbox is a sophisticated industry-leading tool for quick and
+safe analysis of malware behaviour. The goals of this project are:
+) familiarize yourself with the operation of GFI Sandbox;
+) using readily available GFI Sandbox Feeds (i.e., ThreatTrack Feeds),
+build a database of malware designed specifically for execution of
+DDoS-attacks - the so-called botnet malware;
+) examine the behaviour of the collected malware 'upon execution';
+) propose and build an environment - comprising the standard freeware
+security tools - for longer term (beyond immediate execution) analysis
+of the collected malware.
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