Security and Privacy (CITS3231) - Information resources
Selected readings:
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It is anticiapted that you will be devoting 3-4 hours per week to these
selected readings.
Please keep up with your reading each week.
It will be extremely difficult to read and reflect on each week's topics
if you leave all of your reading until just before the final examination.
Readings will be added, each week, as the unit progresses.
All of these selected readings are available from public Internet sites and,
for reasons respecting the rights of the Copyright holders,
are not kept on the CSSE website.
You, and other CITS3231 students, will benefit by setting your web-browser to
use the UCS web proxy cache, as then only one student will actually have
to download the original document from the external Internet. |
Noteworthy security websites and information sources (review periodically):
Setting the scene:
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Reflections of Trusting Trust, by Ken Thompson,
from Communication of the ACM, Vol. 27, No. 8, August 1984, pp761-763.
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Stalking the Wily Hacker, by Clifford Stoll,
from Communications of the ACM, Vol. 31, No. 5, May 1988, pp484-497.
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Why Cryptosystems Fail, by Ross Anderson.
- SANS Top-20 2007 Security Risks,
from the SANS Institute.
User authentication and password cracking:
Operating systems:
Introduction to network security, packet sniffing, port scanning:
TCP/IP vulnerabilities and attacks:
Firewalls and packet-filtering:
Security of wireless networking:
Cryptographic building blocks:
Kerberos and the secure sockets layer (SSL):
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