A draft of the lecture slides for each module will be made available
the evening before the module begins.
The final version of the lecture slides will be made available after
the module is completed and replaces the draft. Use of the draft is at
your own risk!
Readings marked as mandatory contain required material for the
course, and must be read before the date of the corresponding
lecture.
| Module |
Slides |
Lecture
number |
Lecture date |
Textbook sections |
| 1 |
(PDF)
(3up) |
Lecture 1 |
September 6 |
1.1 – 1.8 |
| Optional reading: The 10 privacy principles of PIPEDA |
| Optional reading: A terminology for talking about privacy |
| 2 |
(PDF)
(3up) |
Lecture 2 |
September 11 |
3.1 |
| Mandatory reading before class: Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit |
| Optional reading: On the Evolution of Buffer Overflows |
| Optional reading: Exploiting Format String Vulnerabilities |
| Optional reading: Example format string vulnerabilities (November 2011) |
| Optional reading: Example format string vulnerabilities (May 2012) |
| Optional reading: A Taxonomy of Computer Program Security Flaws, with Examples |
| Lecture 3 |
September 13 |
3.2 |
| Optional reading: Morris worm |
| Optional reading: The Spread of the Sapphire/Slammer Worm |
| Optional reading: Slammed! |
| Optional reading: The inside story of the Conficker worm (access restricted to uWaterloo) |
| Optional reading: Conficker C Analysis |
| Optional reading: Technical analysis of client identification mechanisms |
| Lecture 4 |
September 18 |
3.2 |
| Mandatory reading before class: Reflections on Trusting Trust |
| Optional reading: Linux Kernel "Back Door" Attempt |
| Optional reading: The backdooring of SquirrelMail |
| Optional reading: Salami Fraud |
| Optional reading: Clickjacking attack (Interface illusion) |
| Optional reading: MITM Malware Re-Writes Online Bank Statements |
| Lecture 5 |
September 20 |
3.3 |
| Optional reading: An operating system kernel with a formal proof of security |
| Optional reading: Bugs in open source software: #gotofail |
| Optional reading: Bugs in open source software: Heartbleed |
| 3 |
(PDF)
(3up) |
Lecture 6 |
September 25 |
5.1 |
| Optional reading: Android permissions demystified |
| Optional reading: Caja: Capability-based Javascript (project webpage) |
| Optional reading: Caja: Capability-based Javascript (draft specification) |
| Lecture 7 |
September 27 |
5.1 |
| Optional reading: Breaking SMS-based two-factor authentication: Attacking the cellular network |
| Optional reading: Breaking SMS-based two-factor authentication: Android malware for stealing SMS messages |
| Optional reading: Passphrases that you can memorize - But that even the NSA can't guess |
| Optional reading: The top 50 woeful passwords exposed by the Adobe security breach |
| Optional reading: Password Security: A Case History |
| Optional reading: Facebook's password hashing scheme |
| Optional reading: LinkedIn Revisited - Full 2012 Hash Dump Analysis |
| Optional reading: Anatomy of a password disaster - Adobe's giant-sized cryptographic blunder |
| Lecture 8 |
October 2 |
5.2 |
| Optional reading: 'Fake fingerprint' Chinese woman fools Japan controls |
| Optional reading: Politician's fingerprint 'cloned from photos' by hacker |
| Optional reading: Vietnamese security firm: Your face is easy to fake |
| Optional reading: Android facial recognition based unlocking can be fooled with photo |
| Optional reading: Breaking Windows Hello Face Authentication |
| Optional reading: Reverse-Engineered Irises Look So Real, They Fool Eye-Scanners |
| Optional reading: Border Drones with Facial Recognition |
| Lecture 9 |
October 4 |
5.2 |
| Mandatory reading before class: The Protection of Information in Computer Systems, section I.A. |
| Optional reading: The Security Principles of Saltzer and Schroeder, illlustrated with scenes from Star Wars |
| Optional reading: Reliably Erasing Data From Flash-Based Solid State Drives |
| Optional reading: SELinux |
| 4 |
(PDF)
(3up) |
Lecture 10 |
October 11 |
6.1, 6.2 |
| Optional reading: How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username |
| Optional reading: How I Almost Lost My $500,000 Twitter Username @jb... and my startup |
| Optional reading: Robin Sage |
| Optional reading: Fake social media ID duped security-aware IT guys |
| Lecture 11 |
October 16 |
6.3, 6.4 |
| Optional reading: The New Threat: Targeted Internet Traffic Misdirection |
| Optional reading: Cybercrime 2.0: When the Cloud Turns Dark |
| Optional reading: Pakistan hijacks YouTube |
| Optional reading: The flap heard around the world |
| Optional reading: Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works |
| Optional reading: The DDoS That Knocked Spamhaus Offline (And How We Mitigated It) |
| Optional reading: The DDoS That Almost Broke the Internet |
| Optional reading: Biggest DDoS ever aimed at Cloudflare's content delivery network |
| Optional reading: Technical Details Behind a 400Gbps NTP Amplification DDoS Attack |
| Optional reading: Understanding the Mirai Botnet |
| Lecture 12 |
October 18 |
6.7, 6.8 |
| Optional reading: The Inside Story of the Kelihos Botnet Takedown |
| Optional reading: Gameover |
| Optional reading: Backstage with the Gameover Botnet Hijackers |
| Optional reading: Attacking an IDS |
| 5 |
(PDF)
(3up) |
Lecture 13 |
October 23 |
2.3 |
| Optional reading: COPACOBANA |
| Optional reading: Antminer S9 |
| Optional reading: A Stick Figure Guide to AES |
| Optional reading: Defeating AES without a PhD |
| Lecture 14 |
October 25 |
2.3 |
| Optional reading: Crypto breakthrough shows Flame was designed by world-class scientists |
| Optional reading: Why it's harder to forge a SHA-1 certificate than it is to find a SHA-1 collision |
| Optional reading: SHA-1 collision found |
| Lecture 15 |
October 30 |
2.3, 6.6 |
| Optional reading: Tree of Trust (red: root CA; green: intermediate CA) |
| Optional reading: Turkish Registrar Enabled Phishers to Spoof Google |
| Optional reading: Comodogate |
| Optional reading: DigiNotar incident |
| Optional reading: Chrome's Plan to Distrust Symantec Certificates |
| Optional reading: Let's Encrypt - Free SSL/TLS Certificates |
| Optional reading: badssl.com |
| Optional reading: Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys |
| Lecture 16 |
November 1 |
6.6, 9 |
| Optional reading: Intercepting Mobile Communications: The Insecurity of 802.11 |
| Optional reading: Cracking WEP in 60 seconds |
| Lecture 17 |
November 6 |
6.6, 9 |
| Optional reading: Superfish |
| Optional reading: The Tor Project |
| Lecture 18 |
November 8 |
6.6, 9 |
| Optional reading: SSH: passwords or keys? |
| Optional reading: Mixminion |
| Optional reading: De-Anonymizing Alt.Anonymous.Messages |
| Optional reading: Ed Snowden Taught Me To Smuggle Secrets Past Incredible Danger. Now I Teach You. |
| Optional reading: Off-the-Record Messaging |
| 6 |
(PDF)
(3up) |
Lecture 19 |
November 13 |
7.1 – 7.5 |
| Optional reading: Snooping into Rob Ford's medical records |
| Optional reading: Using police databases for personal gain |
| Lecture 20 |
November 15 |
9.4 |
| Optional reading: Social Security Numbers Deduced From Public Data |
| Optional reading: Identifying spies with data aggregation (final four paragraphs) |
| Lecture 21 |
November 20 |
9.4 |
| Optional reading: Data mining and integrity: Boston Bomber slipped past while spelling glitch tripped up the law |
| Optional reading: Data mining and integrity: How Obama Officials Cried 'Terrorism' to Cover Up a Paperwork Error |
| Optional reading: Data mining in action: How Companies Learn Your Secrets |
| Optional reading: Data mining in action: How this company tracked 16,000 Iowa caucus-goers via their phones |
| Optional reading: FOILing NYC's Taxi Trip Data |
| Optional reading: A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749 |
| Optional reading: ℓ-Diversity: Privacy Beyond k-Anonymity |
| Optional reading: t-Closeness: Privacy Beyond k-Anonymity and ℓ-Diversity |
| Optional reading: Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization |
| 7 |
(PDF)
(3up) |
Lecture 22 |
November 22 |
10.1 – 10.4 |
| Optional reading: Ethically questionable behaviour: Cambridge Analytica |
| Optional reading: Ethically questionable behaviour: AT&T hacker |
| Optional reading: Ethically questionable behaviour: Attacking Tor exit nodes |
| Optional reading: Ethically questionable behaviour: Deanonymizing Tor users |
| Optional reading: Ethically questionable behaviour: Facebook mood manipulation |
| Optional reading: Ethically questionable behaviour: Unaccountable algorithms |
| Optional reading: ACM code of ethics |
| Optional reading: IEEE code of ethics |
| Optional reading: CIPS code of ethics |
| Optional reading: Investigation into the loss of a hard drive at Employment and Social Development Canada |
| Optional reading: IST's continuity plan in case of a pandemic |
| Optional reading: uWaterloo's emergency response policy |
| Lecture 23 |
November 27 |
10.5, 11.1, 11.2 |
| Optional reading: PogoWasRight.org |
| Optional reading: databreaches.net |
| Optional reading: uWaterloo's Information Security Breach Response Procedure |
| Optional reading: The Computer Centre Incident at Concordia |
| Optional reading: uWaterloo's Electronic Media Disposal Guidelines |
| Lecture 24 |
November 29 |
11.4 – 11.7 |
| Optional reading: A Fair(y) Use Tale |
| Optional reading: Access Copyright v. York University |
| Optional reading: Unintended Consequences: Ten Years under the DMCA |
| Optional reading: A Tale of Three Backdoors |
| Optional reading: The Athens Affair |
| Optional reading: A Death in Athens |
| Optional reading: On the Juniper backdoor |
| Optional reading: Bruce Schneier on Full Disclosure |
| Optional reading: Google's view |
| Optional reading: Microsoft's view |
| Optional reading: Dropbox's view |
| Optional reading: Disclosing breaches to the government |