Homework 6 - Security and Privacy Presentations
For this homework assignment, you will be providing an oral presentation to your peers in the networking class.
What do I need to do?
- Pick a single topic related to either network privacy or security that has been in the news in 2010, 2011 or 2012.
- Talk to or email the instructor for topic approval by posted deadline
- Provide a 3-sentence summary of your proposed topic
Topic approval will prevent overlap in topics
- Provide a 3-sentence summary of your proposed topic
- Read about your chosen topic and understand it in detail
- You should know more detail than what is actually covered in your presentation, because your peers or the instructor might ask a question at the end...
- Prepare a presentation for the class. You should provide enough detail and background information such that your peers (other students in the class) are able to understand and appreciate your presentation.
- The presentation length should be 8-9 minutes plus 1 minute for questions.
- You should provide 4-6 PowerPoint slides -or- use the whiteboard during the presentation to convey useful figures and diagrams. (Some of your peers are visual learners, not auditory learners, and will better appreciate your presentation by viewing a figure instead of listening to your words).
- Upload your PowerPoint / PDF slides to the Sakai site by the posted deadline (midnight the day before). They will be assembled into a single file on the instructor machine, so we don't need to switch laptops during the class. (and you don't need to bring your own).
- Present! (during normal class time)
Grading Breakdown
Examples of Possible Topics
(Do not feel limited by this list! Feel free to suggest your own topics!)
- EverCookie (persistent cookies)
- DNSsec (encrypted DNS starting at the root name servers)
- IPv6 and security - What does it make easier? What does it make harder?
- Cross-site scripting (XSS) - Why is this a problem?
- Privacy within social media sites
- Tor (anonymity network) and "Onion routing"
- FreeNet - decentralized, distributed data store
- SOPA / PROTECT laws (and implications for DNS)
- WikiLeaks - Who are they? Arguments of proponents and opponents?
- Future internet designs - How can we make the Internet more secure? New architectures...
- Cloud Computing and security implications
- Any one of numerous examples of malicious activity:
- Spam - particular spam rings?
- Viruses / Worms / Trojans - pick one that is network-related
- Malware / spyware - pick one that is network-related
- Phishing attacks - Lots of attacks on social media sites
- DDoS attacks - Who is the latest victim? What was the largest attack in the past?
- DNS cache poisoning or DNS cache hijacking - What is the last victim? How do these attacks work?
- ARP cache poisoning or spoofing
- Botnets
- Keystroke loggers
- Root kits
- Man-in-the-middle attacks
- SQL injection attacks
- etc...