CSCI 677 - Systems Security

Focuses on recent advances in computer systems security, including both attacks and countermeasures. Attacks that exploit hardware vulnerabilities and hardware and software protections from these attacks are explored. Specific topics include memory corruption attacks, control flow attacks, return-oriented programming attacks and their variations, side-channel attacks, speculative execution attacks (Meltdown & Spectre), trusted computing systems and secure architectures, malware detection techniques, and operating system security.