Date	Topic/Readings	Attack
01/26	Introduction
01/28	Introduction
02/02	Ethics in Security Research
02/04	Cryptography Intro / TLS
02/09	The Certificate Ecosystem	TLS information leakage
02/11	Crypto Failures in Practice	Certificate mis-validation
02/16	Building Anonymity	Traffic deanonymization
02/18	Breaking Anonymity	Data deanonymization
02/23	Censorship Resistance	On-path censorship and evasion
02/25	Protocol Obfuscation	Language detection on encrypted VoIP
03/02	Botnets	Cracking passwords
03/04	User Authentication	Breaking CAPTCHAs
03/09	Underground Economies
03/11	Project proposal presentations
03/16	Spring Break
03/18	Spring Break
03/23	Classic Memory Attacks & Defenses
03/25	Modern Memory Attacks	Control flow attack
03/30	Modern Memory Defenses	Kernel-level rootkit
04/01	Trusted Hardware	Rowhammer attack
04/13	Isolation Attacks	Speculative execution attack
04/15	Malware	Compiler Trojan horse
04/13	Classic Web Security	Attacking vulnerable websites
04/15	Modern Web Security	Tricking users
04/20	Networking Intro	Kaminsky attack
04/22	TCP/IP Security	Off-path TCP attack
04/27	Worms	Opt-ACK attack
04/29	DoS Attacks	NAT Slipstreaming
05/04	DoS Defenses	Firmware-resident malware
05/06	Project Presentations
05/11	Project Presentations