Relevant texts

There are no required textbooks for this course. However, the following are quite good, and I recommend them. They may be helpful for reinforcing concepts, practice problems, and delving deeper into some topics than we may go into in class.

• Security in Computing, Pfleeger & Pfleeger, 4th ed.
• Introduction to Computer Security, Goodrich & Tamassia, 1st ed.
• Gray Hat Hacking: The Ethical Hacker's Guidebook, Harper et al., 3rd ed. (free online)
• Security Engineering, Anderson, 2nd ed. (free online)

GDB references

GDB will be your friend in this course and in the future.

• Quick reference
• GDB manual

Virtual machine software

We will be using virtual machines for each project:

• Project 1 VM (username: cmsc414, password: cmsc414)
• Project 2 VM (username: seed, password: dees)

There are several good virtualization software packages; I recommend VirtualBox.

Important When you get the VM, please be sure to run "sudo apt install gcc-multilib" so that you can compile programs to 32-bit binaries.

Note Recall that your project submission must work within the VM that we provide you. Be sure to test your code thoroughly in the VM provided.