COMPSCI 660: Advanced Information Assurance

We will keep updating class schedule gradually. Here is class schudule from last year for your reference.

Date	Details
01/22	Orientation and logistics
	Review assignment: • None! Please make sure to attend class, as we will be planning the schedule for the semester-- together! Suggested reading: • Introduction to Information Assurance
01/24	Overview of S&P'2018
	Review assignment: • Pick a paper from S&P'18 program and submit a review. You should Google the title of the paper you'd like to review to find the paper's PDF (for some papers you need to be on UMass network to be able to download). We will be overviewing the program. Make sure to use the expected review format.
01/29	Essential Crypto
	Review assignment: • None! Work on your project proposals!
01/31	Anonymous Communications
	Review assignment (pick one): • Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router • RAPTOR: Routing Attacks on Privacy in Tor • Dissent: Accountable Anonymous Group Messaging
02/05	Anonymous Communications Continued
	No reviews due!
02/07	Bitcoin and Blockchain
	Review assignment: • Hijacking Bitcoin: Routing Attacks on Cryptocurrencies • Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin’s Peer-to-Peer Network • Catena: Efficient Non-equivocation via Bitcoin
02/12	Project Proposal Day
	Tasks: • Introduce your project in class in 2-3 minutes to get feedback and suggestion from others. • Submit your 1-page project proposal on Moodle (by 02/15)
02/14	Bitcoin and Blockchain (Continued)
	Review assignment: •None! Overview your reviews for 2/07
02/19	Monday Schedule-- No Class
02/21	Authentication
	Review assignment: • The Tangled Web of Password Reuse • Multi-touch Authentication Using Hand Geometry and Behavioral Information • TrustBase: An Architecture to Repair and Strengthen Certificate-based Authentication
02/26	No Class Due to NDSS Travel
02/28	Censorship, Surveilance, and Wiretapping
	Review assignment: • The Parrot is Dead: Observing Unobservable Network Communications • The Waterfall of Liberty: Decoy Routing Circumvention that Resists Routing Attacks • Can They Hear Me Now? A Security Analysis of Law Enforcement Wiretaps
03/05	Censorship Measurement
	Review assignment: • Analyzing the Great Firewall of China Over Space and Time • Encore: Lightweight Measurement of Web Censorship with Cross-Origin Requests • Quack: Scalable Remote Measurement of Application-Layer Censorship
03/07	Covert Channels + Side-Channel Attacks
	Review assignment: • Microarchitectural Minefields: 4K-Aliasing Covert Channel and Multi-Tenant Detection in IaaS Clouds • Hello from the Other Side: SSH over Robust Cache Covert Channels in the Cloud • Exploiting a Thermal Side Channel for Power Attacks in Multi-Tenant Data Centers
03/12	Spring Break (No Class)
03/14	Spring Break (No Class)
03/19	Data Privacy
	Review assignment: • BLENDER: Enabling Local Search with a Hybrid Differential Privacy Model • Private Information Retrieval • Quantifying Location Privacy
03/21	Privacy Leakage in Machine Learning
	Review assignment: • Membership Inference Attacks Against Machine Learning Models • Model Inversion Attacks that Exploit Confidence Information and Basic Countermeasures • Stealing Machine Learning Models via Prediction APIs Optional reading: • Privacy Risk in Machine Learning: Analyzing the Connection to Overfitting • Comprehensive Privacy Analysis of Deep Learning: Stand-alone and Federated Learning under Passive and Active White-box Inference Attacks
03/26	Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning
	Review assignment: • Deep Learning with Differential Privacy • Machine Learning with Membership Privacy using Adversarial Regularization Optional reading: • Privacy-preserving Prediction • Nearly-Optimal Private LASSO
03/28	Machine Learning Security
	Review assignment: • DeepXplore: Automated Whitebox Testing of Deep Learning Systems • Machine Learning Models that Remember Too Much • Certified Robustness to Adversarial Examples with Differential Privacy
04/02	Online Social Networks
	Review assignment: • Social Networking with Frientegrity: Privacy and Integrity with an Untrusted Provider • Automated Crowdturfing Attacks and Defenses in Online Review Systems • Investigating Ad Transparency Mechanisms in Social Media: A Case Study of Facebook’s Explanations
04/04	Intrusion Detection
	Review assignment: • BotMiner: Clustering Analysis of Network Traffic for Protocol- and Structure-Independent Botnet Detection • Kitsune: An Ensemble of Autoencoders for Online Network Intrusion Detection • Fingerprinting Electronic Control Units for Vehicle Intrusion Detection
04/09	IoT Security and Privacy
	Review assignment: • Security Analysis of Emerging Smart Home Applications • From the Aether to the Ethernet—Attacking the Internet using Broadcast Digital Television • Understanding the Mirai Botnet
04/11	Malware
	Review assignment: • Data Breaches, Phishing, or Malware? Understanding the Risks of Stolen Credentials • MAMADROID: Detecting Android Malware by Building Markov Chains of Behavioral Models • Click Trajectories: End-to-End Analysis of the Spam Value Chain
04/16	Overview of Other Topics
	Review assignment: - None! Work on your projects.
04/18	Final Project Presentations
04/23	Final Project Presentations
04/25	Final Project Presentations
04/30	Final Project Presentations