• Course Information
  • Syllabus
  • Lecture Notes
  • In-class Activities
  • Reading List
  • Instructors
  • Prof. Michel A. Kinsy
  • mkinsy@bu.edu
  • Prof. Marc Boumedine
  • University of the Virgin Islands
  • mboumed@uvi.edu

  • Teaching Assistants
  • Miguel Mark
  • mmark9@bu.edu
  • Rashmi Agrawal
  • rashmi23@bu.edu
  • Alan Ehret
  • ehretaj@bu.edu
  • Mihailo Isakov
  • mihailo@bu.edu
  • Novak Boskov
  • boskov@bu.edu

  • Class Meeting
  • Monday - Friday
  • University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas Campus
  • 09:00 am - 12:00 pm

Introduction to Cybersecurity:

A Software/Hardware Approach

Summer 2019

Reading

Lecture Topic Reading
Cyber treats and attacks examples
  • "Falling other each other for the scariest"[PDF]
  • IoT Vulnerabilities" [PDF]
  • Medical Devices" [PDF]
  • Cisco Routers" [PDF]
Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities
  • Meltdown and Spectre overview [PDF]
  • M. Lipp et al. "Meltdown" [PDF]
  • P. Kocher et al. "Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution" [PDF]
Application level attacks: Code injection, Buffer Overflow, Control-Flow Hijacking
  • Y. Younan, W. Joosen, and F. Piessens "Runtime countermeasures for code injection attacks against C and C++ programs" [PDF]
  • V. Kiriansky and C. Waldspurger "Speculative Buffer Overflows: Attacks and Defenses" [PDF]