Tele-Teaching Lecture for Beijing University of Technology
Summer Semester 2013

Introducation

"Internet Security - Weaknesses and Targets" gives a detailed introduction on problems concerning Internet and Intranet security. After starting with some remarks on risk analysis and computer crimes, security weaknesses and targets are discussed in detail. Besides, more introductions are provided on: human factor and technical failures, attacks on accounts and passwords, attacks on Internet protocol, misuse of design and programming errors, weaknesses in common operating systems, targets in the WWW, and viruses. The lecture concludes with the discussion on possibilities to detect attacks and intrusions and ethical issuses are introduced as well.

Organisation

Thare are altogether about 32 hours lectures and 8 exercise sheets for this course. Every week onMonday, two lectures (each with about 1.5 hours) are streamed over the internet and an exercise sheet will be released. At the beginning of next semester (September, 2013) there is an oral exam and HPI certificates will be granted to students who pass the exam.

Lecturer

Tutors

• Dr. Lijuan Duan (BJUT)
• Dr. Feng Cheng (HPI)

Date: Monday, 18:00 - 22:00 (Beijing Time)

Place: Online Lectures (update on every Monday):

• tele-TASK, HPI, Potsdam, Germany: Internet Securiy-Weaknesses and Targets, CS-School BJUT (ST2013) 
• live-show, Shanghai, China: Internet Security-Weaknesses and Targets, CS-School BJUT (SS2013)

Plan (last update: 08.04.2013):

• 18.02.2013  
  • Internet Security: An Overview (link on tele-task.de)
  • First Understanding of Internet and WWW (link on tele-task.de)
• 25.02.2013 
  • Risk Analysis (link on tele-task.de)
  • Cyber Crime: Criminals and Motives (link on tele-task.de)
  • Hackers and Viruses (link on tele-task.de)
• 04.03.2013 
  • Human Factor and Technical Failures (link on tele-task.de)
  • (Online) Reconnaissance (link on tele-task.de)
  • OS Fingerprinting (link on tele-task.de)
  • Attacks on Accounts and Passwords (link on tele-task.de)
• 11.03.2013
  • Weaknesses of Internet Protocols (1) (link on tele-task.de)
  • Weaknesses of Internet Protocols (2) (link on tele-task.de)
• 18.03.2013
  • Design and Programming Errors (link on tele-task.de)
  • Weaknesses in Unix/Linux (link on tele-task.de)
• 25.03.2013  
• Weaknesses in Windows and Mac OS X (link on tele-task.de)
• Weaknesses in the World Wide Web (1) (link on tele-task.de)
• 01.04.2013
• Weaknesses in the World Wide Web (2) (link on tele-task.de)
• Wireless Security (link on tele-task.de)
• 08.04.2013 
• Detection of Attacks and Intrusions (link on tele-task.de)
• Legal and Ethical Issues in Internet Security (link on tele-task.de)

Onsite Q&A and Oral Examination

Literature:

• Meinel/Sack: WWW-Kommunikation, Internetworking, Web-Technologien, Springer, Heidelberg, 2004. (in German)
• Meinel/Sack: WWW-Internet、Web技术及应用, Hope Press, Beijing, 2008 (in Chinese)
• Stuttard/Pinto: The Web Application Hacker's Handbook - Discovering and exploiting security holes
• Koziol/Litchfield/Aitel/Anley/Eren/Mehta/Hassel: The Shellcoder's Handbook - Discovering and exploiting security holes
• The Internet

Background

This lecture is a part of the cooperative project "Internet Bridge" between the "Hasso-Plattner-Institute for IT-Systems Engineering (HPI) of University of Potsdam and College of Computer Science and Technology of the Beijing University of Technology, starting from the winter semester 2002. Now it is the 11th time transmission. Hundreds of master students at CS-School of BJUT have successfully participated in our lecture.

• WS2011/12, WS2010/2011, WS2009/2010, WS2008/2009, WS2007/2008,
• WS2006/2007, WS2005/2006, WS2004/2005, WS2003/2004, WS2002/2003