460-4054/01 – Computer Viruses and Security of Computer Systems (PVBPS)
| Gurantor department | Department of Computer Science | Credits | 4 |
| Subject guarantor | prof. Ing. Ivan Zelinka, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | prof. Ing. Ivan Zelinka, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Optional |
| Year | 1 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2011/2012 | Year of cancellation | 2014/2015 |
| Intended for the faculties | FEI | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The goal is to familiarize the students with problems of computer viruses, their definition and classification, distribution method in computer and misuse of intrusion into computer systems. The course is also the definition of the issue phishing, spam, hacking and cracking and penetration with a demonstration of pre-installed operating systems. Graduate Students will:
• Learn the modern techniques of computer intrusion and the possibility of their limitations.
• Understand the area of malware sample analysis, functionality and structure.
• Will be able to apply cyber defense methods against malware samples.
Upon successful completion of the course will be able to graduate to apply the measures of computer systems security.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Summary
The course will discuss a broader range of techniques known as malware. They discussed both historically classic techniques and modern techniques and algorithms. There will also be discussed at the introductory level computer viruses, their classification and distribution methods, the best-known hacker techniques, including the phishing, spam, etc. Students should have a comprehensive knowledge of the course of above mentioned areas, including the possibility of countermeasures applications, increasing security of computer systems. Course will include individual assignments (presentations or projects). Their review and presentation will be part of lectures.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Kevin Beaver, Hacking For Dummies, For Dummies; 3 edition, ISBN-10: 9780470550939
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Kontrola je založena na vypracovávání protokolů předmětu, pomocí kterých student prokazuje nejen pochopení informací z přednášek, ale i schopnost jejich implementace v daném programovém prostředí. K získání zápočtu je nutno odevzdat cvičícímu všechny požadované protokoly a mít alespoň 80% fyzické účasti na laboratořích. Zápočet je podmínkou NUTNOU k připuštění ke zkoušce.
U studentů kombinovaného studia jsou laboratoře nahrazeny vypracováním zadaných protokolů.
E-learning
Other requirements
It is required the ability to create programs in arbitrary programming language and apply lecture knowledge into algorithms.
Additional requirements are not defined.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
Lectures:
1. Umělá intelligence and artificial life, Self-replicated structure (the game of life, Fredkin's self-replicated structures, von Neumann and the theory of self-replicated automata). Artificial life and virtual universe (tierra biomorf, SBEAT, SBART, Eden SWIMBOOT). Artificial Life and Complex Systems.
2. Self-replicated structure, finite automata and Turing machines. Virus definitions, common and different features of biological virus. Classification of malicious code (viruses, adware, spyware, worms ,...) and its spreading code. HOAX. Generators viruses.
3. Malicious code and its dependence on the environment (eg OS, file format, processor architecture, compilers, ...)
4. Methods of infection. Infections files (COM, EXE, API, MBR, DBR, infection ...), art (overwriting viruses, connecting viruses, hollow viruses hidden point ...). Infection of memory, using suspension, swap viruses.
5. Basic defensive strategy of viruses. Scanning the memory trace, anti-debugging, armored viruses, retroviruses, defense against heuristic analysis, emulation and reversing disassembled, use undocumented functions.
6. Creation and generation of viruses. Code of the virus encoded by viruses (decryptor, nonlinear decoding W95/fono, W95/Mad2736) oligomorphic viruses, polymorphic viruses, metamorphic viruses. Generators viruses.
7. Basics of computer networks. Network Eavesdropping.Security Web site. Scanning ports.
8.Google Hacking. Buffer overflow - buffer overflows. Windows Security accounts.
9. Spam and antispam. Spam definitions and history. Tools for fighting spam. Anti-spam strategies and tools for Windows and Linux. Bayesian classifier and SpamAssassin. Mail client and filters.
10. Phishing. Phishing subcategories as spam. Right, phishing and spyware.False identity and false redirects identity. Phishing and Malware. Cracking. Protection Program. Anti - debug and anti - disasembler programs.
11. Hacking gathering, scanning and survey scanning programs, network services and research. Operating systems and attack them. Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.
12. Computer networks and attacks on them. Survey networks, autonomous systems, network services. Wireless and network attacks.Firewall.
13. Attacks on the code, runs on the web. Preventing the incident.implementation of security policies and procedures. Investigation procedures and computer investigations. Trace data and network control.
14. Investigation of the OS, Windows, Unix, Web attacks, hacker tools.Computer viruses, antivirus and Artificial Intelligence
Exercise in PC classrooms
- Basics of penetration testing
- Mapping of vulnerability of computer systems
- SQL injection
- Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
- Forgering Cross Site Request and Session Hijacking (CSFR)
- Denial of service (DoS)
- Remote shell command execution
- Password cracking (Brutal force and dictionary attack)
- Testing the vulnerability of WEP and WPA / WPA2
- Use Matasploit framework for penetration testing
- Computer viruses - the basic structure
- Computer viruses - Advanced Techniques
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks