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Weekly Calendar for Practical Cyber Security Fundamentals

[Week 1] [Week 2] [Week 3] [Week 4] [Week 5]
[Week 6] [Week 7] [Week 8] [Week 9] [Week 10]
[Week 11] [Week 12] [Week 13] [Week 14] [Week 15]

Assignment code

E - Exercise (do not need to turn in).
H - Homework (need to turn in hardcopy).
P - Programming projects.
Q - Quizzes.
M - Midterm exam.

Week 1

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Fundamentals	Class Organizations General Introduction	Class Organization General Introduction to Cyber Security Introduction to Capture The Flag Competitions		Syllabus for CIS4930 ( PDF Format) Syllabus for CIS5930 ( PDF Format)	Optional: Intel x86 Reference Manual
Practice	Introduction to Python	Introduction to Python		Virtual Machine Instructions

Week 2

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers/Examples	Assignments
No Class	Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Practice

Week 3

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Fundamentals	Web Fundamentals	Web Basics
Practice	Common Web Vulnerabilities	Web - Part I				H: Homework #1 (Due 01/30/2017)

Week 4

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Fundamentals	Advanced Web	Web - Part II
Practice						H: homework #2 (Due 2/6/2017)

Week 5

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Fundamentals	Binary file fundamentals	File Fundamentals-Disassembly
Practice	Python for CTFs	Python for CTFs				H: homework #3 (Due 2/13/2017)

Week 6

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Fundamentals
Practice	Reversing - Part I	Reversing for CTFs - Part I				H: homework #4 (Due 2/20/2017)

Week 7

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Fundamentals
Practice	Reversing (Continued)	Reversing for CTFs - Part II				H: homework #5 (Due 2/27/2017) flagfinder-redux dice unbreakable-enterprise-product-activation guesstring hashstring angrybird

Week 8

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Practice	Symbolic Execution	Beyond Debuggers				Homework #6 (Due 3/6/2017) count.txt fore101 dossier.tar
Practice	Forensics - I	Forensics Part I

Week 9

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Fundamentals
Practice	Binary Exploitation	Binary Exploitation				Homework #7 (Due 3/20/2017) prob1.zip prob2.zip sleak.zip

Week 10

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Fundamentals	Have a safe break
Practice	Spring Break

Week 11

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Fundamentals
Practice	Forensics II	Forensics II				Homework #8 (Due 3/27/2017) memory_fun.tar.bz2 (Size: 1,356,410,843 bytes) Cabbie.pcapng (Size: 503,260 bytes) StayinAlive.wav (Size: 104,857,600 bytes)

Week 12

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Fundamentals	Binary Exploitation - II
Practice	Binary Exploitation - II	Binary Exploitation II				Homework #9 (Due 4/3/2017) Warmup a.out b.out c.out

Week 13

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Fundamentals	Crypto - Part I	Crypto Part I				Homework #10 (Due 4/10/2017) vcipher.txt otpcipher.bin feistel.bin
Practice

Week 14

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Fundamentals	Crypto - Part II	Crypto Part II				Homework #11 (Due 4/17/2017) hw1.txt hw2.txt hw3.py mitch.pub
Practice

Week 15

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Fundamentals	Group CTF Upto Three Members Each Team	In Rooms 151 and 016 Love Building	Pizza and drinks will be in room 151
Practice	Group CTF Upto Three Members Each Team	In Rooms 151 and 016 Love Building	Pizza and drinks will be in room 151

Week 16

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Fundamentals	Final CTF Competition					From 5:15pm, April 21, 2017 to 7:30pm, April 24, 2017 There will be an award ceremory and discussion on April 24, 2017
Practice	Final CTF Competition

Final Exam Week

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Wednesday	May 3, 7:30PM					Final CTF Write-ups Due

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