The schedule will change as the course progresses, in part based on student interests. If you are particularly interested in some topic not covered here, send mail to the course staff.

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
sep 5 Labor Day Holiday	sep 6 REG DAY	sep 7 LEC 1: Introduction, threat models Assignment: Lab 1: Buffer overflows	sep 8	sep 9
sep 12 LEC 2: Control hijacking attacks Preparation: Read Baggy bounds checking (Question)	sep 13	sep 14 LEC 3: Software fault isolation Preparation: Read XFI (Question)	sep 15 Assignment: Lab 2: Privilege Separation	sep 16 DUE: Lab 1 all parts
sep 19 LEC 4: Privilege separation Preparation: Read OKWS (Question)	sep 20	sep 21 Student holiday	sep 22	sep 23 DUE: Lab 2 part 1
sep 26 LEC 5: Capabilities Preparation: Read Confused Deputy and KeyKOS (For reference: KeyKOS source code, login code.) (Question)	sep 27	sep 28 LEC 6: Web application security Preparation: Read OWASP Top 10 (Question)	sep 29	sep 30 DUE: Lab 2 all parts Assignment: Lab 3: Server-side sandboxing
oct 3 LEC 7: Server-side static and runtime analysis Preparation: Read Static Detection of Scripting Vulnerabilities (Question)	oct 4	oct 5 LEC 8: Static client-side analysis Preparation: Read Gatekeeper (Question)	oct 6	oct 7 DUE: Lab 3 part 1 ADD DATE
oct 10 Columbus Day Holiday	oct 11	oct 12 LEC 9: Runtime client analysis and enforcement Preparation: Read Object views (Question)	oct 13	oct 14 DUE: Lab 3 parts 1 and 2
oct 17 LEC 10: SSL and HTTPS Preparation: Read ForceHTTPS (Question) Assignment: Lab 4: Attacking the zoobar server	oct 18	oct 19 QUIZ #1 (Past quizzes and solutions) Scope: lectures; labs 1, 2, and 3 Materials: open papers/notes, closed laptop	oct 20	oct 21 DUE: Lab 3 all parts
oct 24 LEC 11: Worms Preparation: Read Inside the Slammer worm (Question)	oct 25	oct 26 LEC 12: Viruses and Malware Preparation: Read Computer virus co-evolution (Question)	oct 27	oct 28 DUE: Lab 4 Assignment: Lab 5: Browser security
oct 31 LEC 13: Malware defenses Preparation: Read Nozzle (Question)	nov 1	nov 2 LEC 14: Mobile phone security Preparation: Read Understanding Android Security (Question) Assignment: Lab 7: final project	nov 3	nov 4 DUE: Final project wiki one-liner
nov 7 LEC 15: Side-channel attacks Preparation: Read Remote timing attacks (Question)	nov 8	nov 9 LEC 16: File system encryption Preparation: Read BitLocker (Question)	nov 10 Assignment: Lab 6: Javascript sandboxing	nov 11 DUE: Lab 5
nov 14 LEC 17: Anonymity Preparation: Read Tor (Question) DUE: Final project proposal	nov 15	nov 16 LEC 18: Data tracking Preparation: Read TaintDroid (Question)	nov 17	nov 18
nov 21 LEC 19: Online privacy Preparation: Read RePriv (Question)	nov 22	nov 23 LEC 20: Identity protocols Preparation: Read The Venn of Identity (Question) DROP DATE DUE: Lab 6	nov 24 Thanksgiving	nov 25 Thanksgiving
nov 28 LEC 21: Security economics Preparation: Read Click Trajectories (Question)	nov 29	nov 30 LEC 22: Usable security Preparation: Read In Search of Usable Security (Question)	dec 1	dec 2
dec 5 LEC 23: Trusted hardware Preparation: Read TrInc (Question)	dec 6	dec 7 QUIZ #2 (Past quizzes and solutions) Scope: all lectures and labs; more on material since quiz 1 Materials: open papers/notes, closed laptop	dec 8	dec 9
dec 12 No class -- hack on final projects	dec 13	dec 14 Final project presentations (schedule) NOTE: Extra-long lecture (in 32-144): 11am-12:30pm AND 1-2:30pm in the same room.	dec 15	dec 16 DUE: Lab 7 (final project)
dec 19	dec 20	dec 21	dec 22	dec 23

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