ITX8063

Course Description

• Schedule
  • The course will be conducted on the second half of Autumn semester of 2010/2011
  • First lecture/lab on 26th of October

• EAP: 3.00

• Course Objectives and Organization
  • Main objective is to give a good technical overview of different attack methods and vulnerabilities the attackers are exploiting to compromise IT systems.
  • We will not use strong academic approach. Rather, we will focus on the current problems and practical issues of IT security.
  • There will be less lectures and more hands-on work and demo's on lab systems
  • The labs are built around Capture The Flag Exercises
    1. We set up purposely vulnerable systems
    2. Student's job is to identify vulnerabilities, gain access somehow and find the flag from the systems
    3. First one gets the most points
    4. Afterwards: securing and patching the systems

• Instructors
  • Responsible: Kaur Kasak, kaur.kasak(at)gmail.com, +372 52 17 946
  • There will be several instructors for this course (most of them from Estonian Cyber Defence League): Mehis Hakkaja, Kalev Kuusik, Andri Rebane, Roman Palik, Kuido Külm, Tarko Tikan
  • Our aim is get presentations from persons who have strong real-world experience

• Contents
  • In general courses will be structured around typical attack phases. Going from Layer L2 to L7.
  • The course is still under development and the exact contents depend on the instructors we are able to motivate to participate
  • More active students will have opportunity to make presentations

• Prerequisites
  • Experience in administrating Linux and Windows based systems
  • Understanding of main networking protocols (IP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, ARP, DNS, HTTP)
  • Some experience with web technologies and relational databases (HTML, PHP, MySQL, Javascript)
  • Programming skills in any standard high-level language

• General List of Topics
  1. Introduction. Demo of the main phases of a penetration test
  2. Reconnaissance and Scanning
  3. Password and Brute-Force Attacks
  4. Man-In The Middle Attacks
  5. Attacks and Defence of Network Infrastructure
  6. Exploitation
  7. Web Application Security
  8. Maintaining Access and Hiding Tracks

Schedule

• Starting from the second half of the semester
• Tuesdays, 17:00-20:15
  • 17:00-17:40 IT-137A:
  • 17:45-20:00 IT-213B

I: 26 Oct

• Fail:Administrative.Notes.pdf
• Fail:Hacking.and.PenTesting-Oct.2010.pdf
• Fail:Scanning.pdf

II: 02 Nov

• Fail:Password.And.Brute.Force.Attacks.pdf
• Fail:Password.And.Brute-Force.Attacks.pdf
• Practical exercises
• Lab Setup

III: 09 Nov

• Attacks and Defence of Network Infrastructure
  • 17:00-18:30 Attacks and Defence in LAN (Kalev Kuusik)
  • 18:30-20:00 How internet works. How IPs are allocated. How to attack "BGP". IPv6 - 96 more bits. (Tarko Tikan). http://tarko.ircnet.ee/temp/BGPtalk.pdf

• Admin Issues:
  • There are still topics available for presentations on Web Application Security (Up to 15 points). Propose your own topic or review the list Fail:Administrative.Notes.pdf
  • Next time there will be individual work but no lectures!
  • Grading of Practical Assignments

IV: 16 Nov

• No lectures - solving practical exercises in Lab and writing the report
• Instructions will be provided NLT 14 Nov 2010

V: 23 Nov

• Exploitation (Roman Palik)
• Practical exercises

VI: 30 Nov

• Web Application Security I
  • Fail:Xss session management.pdf (Arnis)
  • Fail:Urmasa-webappsec2.pdf (Urmas)
  • Fail:Web.Application.Security.v01.pdf (Kaur)
  • Practical exercises if there is enough time...
• Administrative Notes
  • Lab is open: until Sat 04.12.2010 12:00, From Thu 09.12.2010 20:00 - 23.12.2010
  • Lab is closed from Sat 04.12.2010 12:00 - Thu 09.12.2010 20:00
    • Exception is Tue Dec 7th

VII: 7 Dec

• Fail:Web.Applications.Security.Kuido.pdf (Kuido Külm)

VIII: 14 Dec

• We will start 17:45 in IT-213B
• There will be no lecture but the last set of practical exercises will be activated.
• One of the tasks on XSS requires simulated user activities, so for faster and better coordination you should attend the class.

• Administrative issues
  • Deadline for the written report about lab exercises is 14 Dec 2010!

Grade assignment

• 35p - Practical Exercises
  • It is important how many Tasks you have completed in the end of the semester. If you have completed all the tasks, you will get 35
  • The results on the scoreboard are important only to identify first 5
  • Points for practical exercises: (nr of tasks completed/total nr of tasks (19)) * 35p

• 15p - Written Assignment - report about the specific practical tasks
• 50p - Written Exam

• Bonus:
  • 50p - 5 most successful CTF participants
  • Up to 15p for Presentation on Web Application security

• Results

Exams

• 12 Jan 2011 10:00 IT-140
• 20 Jan 2011 10:00 IT-140