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Selected Topics in Computer Security (CS 5473)

Every chapter of the CS 5473 notes: operating system and application security, buffer overflows, VPNs, database security and privacy, secret sharing, and wireless network security.

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Networks and Cryptography Review
A review of the OSI layers, classical and modern ciphers, block modes, hashing, signatures, key exchange, SSL, the four models for judging security, and BB84 quantum key distribution.
MCQ: 10
Fill-in: 10
Flashcards: 15
Pair match: 12
47 total questions
Operating System Fundamentals
How an operating system is layered and runs processes, how processes talk to each other, how files and memory are laid out and protected, and the basics of virtual machines and cloud computing.
MCQ: 9
Fill-in: 8
Flashcards: 12
Pair match: 10
39 total questions
Process, Memory and File System Security
How trust is kept from boot onward, logging and monitoring, attacks on hibernation and swap files, password storage and authentication, access control models including RBAC, and the file descriptor and symbolic link attacks.
MCQ: 10
Fill-in: 8
Flashcards: 14
Pair match: 10
Locked · 42 questions inside
Buffer Overflows and Application Program Security
How programs are linked and laid out in memory, the classes of memory-safety and timing bugs the notes cover, and the language, compiler and operating system defences against them.
MCQ: 11
Fill-in: 9
Flashcards: 13
Pair match: 10
Locked · 43 questions inside
Security Evaluation Standards
The Orange Book (TCSEC) and its divisions, the European ITSEC and Canadian CTCPEC, and the Common Criteria with its TOE, PP, ST and EAL concepts.
MCQ: 7
Fill-in: 6
Flashcards: 7
Pair match: 9
Locked · 29 questions inside
Virtual Private Networks
VPN types, GRE, PPTP and L2TP, IPSec (AH, ESP, security associations, ISAKMP and IKE), MPLS and application layer VPNs.
MCQ: 11
Fill-in: 12
Flashcards: 14
Pair match: 11
Locked · 48 questions inside
Database Systems and SQL Access Control
DBMS architecture, the relational model and SQL, Bigtable, data warehouses and OLAP, cloud and other database kinds, and GRANT/REVOKE with cascading revocation.
MCQ: 11
Fill-in: 11
Flashcards: 13
Pair match: 12
Locked · 47 questions inside
SQL Injection and Access Control Models
SQL injection attacks and defences, multilevel database security, DAC, MAC and RBAC, credential-based access control, and the 2002 algebra for composing policies.
MCQ: 12
Fill-in: 11
Flashcards: 15
Pair match: 11
Locked · 49 questions inside
Inference and Statistical Databases
How legitimate query answers leak protected data, statistical databases and their queries, trackers, and the query restriction and perturbation defences.
MCQ: 10
Fill-in: 10
Flashcards: 14
Pair match: 10
Locked · 44 questions inside
Database Encryption and Data Anonymization
Encrypting outsourced databases and querying them with indexes, homomorphic and order-preserving schemes, and publishing microdata safely with k-anonymity, l-diversity and anatomy.
MCQ: 11
Fill-in: 9
Flashcards: 13
Pair match: 10
Locked · 43 questions inside
Database Watermarking
Why and how databases are watermarked: classifying schemes, marking numerical data in low-order bits, distortion-free watermarking by tuple order, and how robust a watermark is to attacks.
MCQ: 10
Fill-in: 8
Flashcards: 14
Pair match: 10
Locked · 42 questions inside
Trust Management and Trust Negotiation
How strangers in different security domains get authorized using signed credentials: SPKI/SDSI, QCM, SD3, RT, PCA and TPL, then trust negotiation and how it can leak information.
MCQ: 13
Fill-in: 10
Flashcards: 14
Pair match: 10
Locked · 47 questions inside
Secret Sharing Schemes
Splitting a key among participants: the Shamir threshold scheme and its worked example, general access structures built from monotone circuits, and information rate.
MCQ: 9
Fill-in: 10
Flashcards: 13
Pair match: 10
Locked · 42 questions inside
Cellular Network Security: GSM and UMTS
How GSM and UMTS authenticate subscribers, encrypt the radio link and hide identities, and the flaws and attacks each design leaves open.
MCQ: 10
Fill-in: 8
Flashcards: 13
Pair match: 10
Locked · 41 questions inside
Wi-Fi Security: WEP and IEEE 802.11i
How WEP tried to secure wireless LANs and why it failed, then how IEEE 802.11i (RSN, WPA, TKIP, 802.1X and the four-way handshake) fixes it.
MCQ: 11
Fill-in: 9
Flashcards: 14
Pair match: 10
Locked · 44 questions inside
Bluetooth and Wireless Sensor Network Security
The Bluetooth protocol stack, piconets, pairing keys, authentication and encryption with their weaknesses, then the features, challenges and security requirements of wireless sensor networks.
MCQ: 13
Fill-in: 10
Flashcards: 14
Pair match: 10
Locked · 47 questions inside
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