INLS 187: Information Security

Class Notes

• May 1: Wireless; future of security; Schneier wrap-up
• April 24: Movie: Freedom Downtime
• April 17: Risk analysis; personal desktop management
• April 10: One-time passwords; groups on better security; rootkits
• April 3: Social engineering, censorproofing, broadband, IPSEC
• March 27: Music and music piracy; email and Web anonymizers
• March 20: Piracy
• March 6: Shredding, filtering, software licensing, Integrit/Tripwire & lsof
• February 27: transparency, database nation, network security, SAINT & logcheck.
• February 20: Computer security; crack & L0phtcrack.
• February 13: Encryption. Tools: crypt and PGP/GnuPG
• February 6: Privacy policy, eavesdropping. Tools: tcp_wrappers & tcpdump.
• January 23: Copyright, buffer overflows
• January 16: History; viruses; legislation and erosion of liberty; sshd and process tracing.
• January 9: Class intro, security definitions. Nmap & Nessus port scanners.