Internet Security Lectures

Prabhaker Mateti

These are notes to my lectures on Internet Security. A subset of these I give in my course CEG 429 taught at Wright State. A few of these are incomplete. During the term, these will become more and more complete. These lecture materials are gleaned from many sources. All are presented after careful reading. In some cases, I may have unintentionally neglected proper attribution. I assure the reader it is not because I claim authorship. Indeed, in the lectures there is hardly any thing new that I have contributed. Suggestions for improvement always welcome.

This work is supported in part by NSF DUE-9951380.

08/10/01

Listed alphabetically by the names of directories. This is not the order in which the topics are covered. Please see the syllabus of the course CEG429. Not all the lectures are of equal duration. Note also that the links become "valid" as we progress in the term.


Course Intro				Introduction to This Internet Security Course
General Intro				Introduction to the Area of Internet Security
LinuxNotes				Notes on Linux installation
BootUp				From powering up to login prompt
NetUtils				Various LAN utilities
TCPIP				TCP/IP refresher
Sniffers				Network sniffers
Config				Configuring a system properly
Fortification				Improving the security of a system beyond proper configuration
OrangeBk				Excerpts from the military security handbook
HardenOS				Hardening an OS
Password				Cracking passwords
Cryptography				Essentials of cryptography for Internet security
Authentication				User, Node and Service Authentication
Nuisance				Experience serious nuisance
Viruses				Viruses,Worms, and Trojans
RootKits				How to hide what you are doing
BackDoors				Discovering backdoors in well-known programs and OS
BufferOverflow				The notorious and ever-present security problem
SecSoftware				Writing better software, security-wise
PacketFilter				Setting up a packet filter on Linux
Firewalls				Firewalls, and how to setup one
HoneyPots				Teach how black-hats probe for and exploit a system
HostileApplets				Hostile Java, ActiveX, etc applets
InternetWormArticles				The classic
Probing				Scanning the network
IPspoof				IP spoofing
TCPexploits				Exploiting the weakness of TCP
DDoS				Denial of service attacks, distributed or not
DNSattacks				Domain Name Service attacks
VPN				Virtual Private Networking
IP6				The new IP
IntrusionDetection				Intrusion detection techniques
Audit				Security audit of Computer Systems and LANs
CGI-Vulnerabilities				CGI-Vulnerabilities
CommercialTools				Exploration of a couple of commercial products
Privacy				The loss of privacy, and how to regain it
Ethics				Ethics of hacking, cracking and attacking.

08/10/01 02:57:07 AM

CEG 499/699: Internet Security

Internet Security Lectures

Prabhaker Mateti

Table of Contents

CEG 499/699:
Internet Security