Class Schedule and Readings
Papers listed in the class schedule are available from the reading list. Get started on your required readings early so you have time to get help on extra background reading material if you need it.| Day/Date | Topic Covered | Required Readings/Handouts | Optional Readings/Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon (1/9/12) | Internet Protocol stack overview | Biggest cyber-criminal take-down in history (November, 2011) | |
| Wed (1/11/12) | Email spam | [levchenko-sp11] |
Questions to ask while writing the critical
review Sample summary |
| Mon (1/16/12) | MLK holiday | ||
| Wed (1/18/12) | Malware distribution, web service abuse via freelance labor | [caballero-security11], [motoyama-security11] | |
| Mon (1/23/12) | Spam on OSNs | [gao-ndss12], [lee-ndss12] | |
| Wed (1/25/12) | Malicious domains, project discussion | [jiang-ndss12] | |
| Mon (1/30/12) | Web search fraud | [moore-ccs11], [lu-ccs11] | Twitter acquires Dasient for anti-malvertising technology |
| Wed (2/1/12) | Website cloaking, Android permissions | [wang-ccs11], [felt-ccs11] | |
| Mon (2/6/12) | Clickbots, OSN attacks | [miller-dimva11], [irani-dimva11] | |
| Wed (2/8/12) | Malicious activity in residential networks, honeypots | [maier-dimva11], [kapravelos-dimva11] | |
| Mon (2/13/12) | Fraud in ad networks, botnet victims | [stone-imc11], [shin-raid11] | |
| Wed (2/15/12) | Inflight content modification, registrar intervention in fraud | [zhang-leet11], [lie-leet11] | Top 10 counterfeit goods |
| Mon (2/20/12) | Underground forums, ad fraud | [motoyama-imc11], [zhang-web11] | |
| Wed (2/22/12) | Malicious Android apps | [zhou-ndss12] | |
| Mon (2/22/12) | Modern Web traffic | [ihm-imc11], [butkiewicz-im11] | |
| Wed (2/29/12) | YouTube uploaders | [ding-imc11] | |
| Mon (3/5/12) | Suspended Twitter accounts, DNS behavior of malicious domains | [hao-imc11], [thomas-im11] | Political campaign targeting users |
| Wed (3/7/12) | SSL certificates | [holz-imc1] | Spyware
used as a weapon in Syrian
conflict Your mobile phone is mining data about you |
| Mon (3/12/12) | Spring break | ||
| Mon (3/14/12) | Spring break | ||
| Mon (3/19/12) | Tracking on the Web, collecting forensic evidence | [roesner-nsdi11], [shields-dfrws11] | User
tracking on the Web not as
scary How companies learn your secrets How to prepare for Google's privacy changes |
| Wed (3/21/12) | Deciphering encrypted VoIP | [white-sp11] | Hacker
crackdown 'Kony 2012' Documentary Becomes Most Viral Video in History |
| Mon (3/26/12) | Usability of ad blockers, DNS redirection for ads | [leon-tr12], [weaver-foci11]] | |
| Wed (3/28/12) | Project updates | ||
| Mon (4/2/12) | Single sign-on, IPv4 grey market | [wang-sp12], [osterweil-hotnets11] | |
| Wed (4/4/12) | Privacy-friendly advertising | [bilenko-pets11] | |
| Mon (4/9/12) | Anti-censorship systems | [wustrow-security11] | |
| Wed (4/11/12) | Anti-censorship systems | [fifield-tr12] | A contextual approach to privacy online |
| Mon (4/16/12) | Dissecting Chinese censorship | [winter-tr12], [moghaddam-tr12] | Iran will create its own version of the Web |
| Wed (4/18/12) | Connectivity loss due to censorship | [dainotti-imc11] | |
| Mon (4/23/12) | Skype censorship, location of censorship module in China | [knockel-foci11], [xu-pam11] | |
| Wed (4/25/12) | Demographic profiling in MMOG games | [likarish-pets11] |