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Foundations of Software Security
USF CIS 6373, Spring 2018

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Schedule (filled in as the semester progresses)

Dates Topics Reading
01/09 Introduction Class notes
01/11 Enforceability theory Sections 1-2 of Enforceable Security Policies
01/16 Enforceability theory Enforceable Security Policies (all)
01/18 Enforceability theory Sections 1-2 of Run-time Enforcement of Nonsafety Policies
01/23 Enforceability theory Run-time Enforcement of Nonsafety Policies (all, but please don't worry about the details; as always, read to get the main ideas)
01/25 Enforceability theory Sections 1-3 of Modeling Runtime Enforcement with Mandatory Results Automata
01/30 Enforceability theory Sections 1-5 and 8 of Modeling Runtime Enforcement with Mandatory Results Automata
02/01 Enforceability theory A Theory of Gray Security Policies
02/06 Policy specification and composition Sections 1-3 of Composing Expressive Run-time Security Policies (article is accessible from the USF campus network)
02/08 Policy visualization (reading handed out in class)
02/13 Location-based policies and mobile-device security A Location-based Policy-specification Language for Mobile Devices (article is accessible from the USF campus network)
02/15 Firewall policies; Packet classification A Packet-classification Algorithm for Arbitrary Bitmask Rules, with Automatic Time-space Tradeoffs
02/20 Vulnerability trends; Buffer overflows (1) Please look over, and try to get the high-level information from: 2011 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors; (2) then please study StackGuard: Automatic Adaptive Detection and Prevention of Buffer-Overflow Attacks
02/22 ASLR and related mechanisms Breaking the memory secrecy assumption (paper should be accessible from the USF campus network)
02/27 Code-injection attacks: XSS and HTML5 Code Injection Attacks on HTML5-based Mobile Apps: Characterization, Detection and Mitigation
03/01 Code-injection attacks Sections 1-4 of Defining Code-injection Attacks
03/06 Noncode-injection attacks Defining Injection Attacks
03/08 DDoS (viewing protocols as programs, much of network security is software security) (1) IP Spoofing
(2) Memcrashed
(3) GitHub Engineering Feb 28th DDoS Incident Report
03/20 Student presentations (Project-proposal presentations)
03/22 Student presentations (Project-proposal presentations)
03/27 Control-flow integrity Sections 1-5 of Control-Flow Integrity: Principles, Implementations, and Applications
03/29 Control-flow integrity; ROP Losing Control: On the Effectiveness of Control-Flow Integrity under Stack Attacks
04/03 Information flow; Noninterference Principles of Secure Information Flow Analysis
04/05 Quantitative Information Florw Recent Developments in Quantitative Information Flow (please feel free to skip Sections III-V, to save time)
04/10 Temperature (hot) attacks Using Memory Errors to Attack a Virtual Machine
04/12 Temperature (cold) attacks Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys
04/17 DRM Lessons from the Sony CD DRM Episode
04/19 Trustworthiness Reflections on Trusting Trust
04/24 Student presentations (Final presentations)