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Date
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Subject
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Resources
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Week 1, Jan 15
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Hacking Background. Course introduction, Core network and computing concepts (Networking, Command line utlities, File permissions, Programming languages, Web technologies)
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Week 2, Jan 22
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Cyber Ethics and Vulnerability Scoring.
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Week 3, Jan 29
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Hacking the Web.
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Week 4, Feb 5
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Hacking Networks.
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Week 5, Feb 12
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Hacking Systems.
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File and OS permissions. Identity, access and privilege
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Lecture 5: Phishing and Password hashing
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Tutorial notes for the Passcode challenge
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Week 6, Feb 19
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Reading week. No class.
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Week 7, Feb 26
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Hacking Software.
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Program flow, stacks, buffer overflows, return-oriented programming, shellcode
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Lecture 6: Buffer overflows
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Week 8, Mar 5
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Presentations. M.Eng (9069) Tool/Method case study. Research (9609) paper seminar (Day 1).
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Week 8, Mar 12
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Presentations. M.Eng (9069) Tool/Method case study. Research (9609) paper seminar (Day 2).
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Week 9, Mar 19
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Presentations. M.Eng (9069) Tool/Method case study. Research (9609) paper seminar (Day 3).
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Week 10, Mar 26
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Presentations. M.Eng (9069) Tool/Method case study. Research (9609) paper seminar (Day 4).
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Week 11, April 2
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Final test
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