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Extended Python deadlineWritten on 17.11.24 by Ben Stock Dear all, due to a firewall misconfiguration on Friday night, anyone attempting to log in after Friday 9pm is greeted with a "Social Network Login Failure" message. This is because since Friday, the server running the Python tasks cannot connect to the CMS anymore. We will therefore extend the… Read more Dear all, due to a firewall misconfiguration on Friday night, anyone attempting to log in after Friday 9pm is greeted with a "Social Network Login Failure" message. This is because since Friday, the server running the Python tasks cannot connect to the CMS anymore. We will therefore extend the task deadlines by *two* days to Wednesday, 23:59 (since I hope the issue will be fixed Monday morning). |
Deadline issueWritten on 04.11.24 by Ben Stock Hi all, due to a misconfiguration, the due date for the second exercise sheet was wrong. I changed the deadline to reflect the correct date: Monday, 23:59 (that is, you can still update your solutions now if you already uploaded them or actually send them in if you did not make it in time before). |
Tutorials this weekWritten on 30.10.24 by Jonas Schmitt Dear all, Due to this friday being a national holiday there will be no tutorials held this week. However we are going to release the tutorial sheet in the CMS and invite you to try the exercises at home. If there are any questions about the exercises either wait for the solutions to be posted or… Read more Dear all, Due to this friday being a national holiday there will be no tutorials held this week. However we are going to release the tutorial sheet in the CMS and invite you to try the exercises at home. If there are any questions about the exercises either wait for the solutions to be posted or ask your tutor in the tutorial next week. Best regards and a good holiday |
Tutorials assignedWritten on 24.10.24 by Ben Stock Dear all, apologies for the slight delay, we have now assigned the tutorials. Since Kirill, who holds the Thursday tutorial, is unavailable this week, please join either the 12 or 14 tutorials on Friday this week. From next week, please join the assigned tutorial. All of them will happen in CISPA's… Read more Dear all, apologies for the slight delay, we have now assigned the tutorials. Since Kirill, who holds the Thursday tutorial, is unavailable this week, please join either the 12 or 14 tutorials on Friday this week. From next week, please join the assigned tutorial. All of them will happen in CISPA's lecture hall (CISPA building E9.1 at the end of the campus road, when entering the building turn left where it says "Bernd Therre Lecture Hall"). You can see your assigned tutorial in the "Personal Status" page on CMS. |
Foundations of Cybersecurity 1
About the course
This is a mandatory course of all Bachelor Cybersecurity students. Any other students may be unable to take the CP associated with the lecture, please check the LSF to see if your course of study is listed.
In this course, students will learn foundational security principles, the basics of cryptography, receive an introduction to networks and network security, and explore privacy-preserving mechanisms. Additionally, students will acquire programming skills in Python.
By the end of the course, students should be able to define security goals and become familiar with the most common attack scenarios.
Time and Location
The lecture is held in E2 2 (GHH) on Monday 12:15 - 13:45 and on Tuesday 10:15 - 11:45.
The tentative schedule is as follows:
- 14.10. - 15.10. no lectures
- 21.10. Organization, Information Security Goals, Legal Aspects in Germany
- 22.10. Basics of Cryptography 1 (Historic & Block Ciphers)
- 28.10. - Python 1 (Arithmetics & Strings)
- 29.10. - Basic of Cryptography 2 (Hashes & Diffie-Hellman)
- 4.11. - Python 2 (Boolean Logic, Lists, Basic Loops)
- 5.11. - Basic of Cryptography 3 (Public Key Crypto)
- 11.11. - Python 3 (Advanced Loops, Tuples, Sets, Dicts)
- 12.11. - Basic of Cryptography 4 (Digital Signatures & PKI)
- 18.11. - Python 4 (Exceptions, File Handling, Hashlib)
- 19.11. - Authentication
- 25.11.-3.12. no lectures
- 9.12. - Python 5 (Importing, JSON, Requests)
- 10.12. - Network Security 1 (LAN, WLAN, DHCP)
- 16.12. - Python 6 (Regular Expressions)
- 17.12. - Network Security 2 (IPv4, IPv6, BGP)
- 6.1. - Network Security 3 (UDP, TCP, Firewalls)
- 7.1. - Network Security 4 (DNS)
- 13.1. - Network Security 5 (Denial of Service, TOR)
- 14.1. - Network Security 6 (TLS, HTTPS, Certificates)
- 20.1. - Web Security 1 (Server-Side Security)
- 21.1. - no lecture
- 27.1. - Web Security 2 (Client-Side Security)
- 28.1. - no lecture
- 3.2. - Q/A & Exam Preparation
- 17.2. - main exam (10-12)
- 4.4. - backup exam (10-12)
Grading and Exam information
There will be a final exam at the end of the semester, which will determine the course grade. To be eligible for the exam, and subsequently, to earn course credits, you need to score at least 50% of the available points on all 12 exercise sheets, with a maximum of two sheets being allowed to be skipped, and achieve 50% of the points from the Python exercises.
Any changes to this will be announced in the first lecture.
Registration
You can register for this course in the CMS until Friday, October 25, at 23:59.