Read, Watch, or Skim

I’ve selected some good materials to complement the lectures, problem sets, and programming projects; don’t skip them. (Short on time? Watch videos at 1.5x or faster.)

Please watch:

• Buffer Exploits and Buffer Overflows (2014-04-08)
• The Shellshock Bug In About Four Minutes (2014-09-25)
• The Moonpig Bug (2015-01-06)
• The Link That Can Crash Chrome (2015-09-22)
• XSS and Twitter (2014-06-11)
• Effective Power Bug (2015-05-29)

Please skim:

• This deck
• This deck
• RFC 3631
• OWASP Top Ten 2017

Please read:

• Chapters 25, 26, 27, and 30 of this book.
• Wikipedia Cloud Computing article
• The AWS Whitepaper (read all of it, except for the middle part on specific services, which you just need to skim)

Instructions

You will be adding to repository you created earlier, ending up with the following structure:

  .
  ├── README.md
  ├── .gitignore
  ├── homework1
  │   └── Files for Homework 1
  ├── homework2
  │   └── Files for Homework 2
  ├── homework3
  │   └── Files for Homework 3
  └── homework4/
      └── short-answer-problems.md

Submit your work as a GitHub Pull Request. Make sure the PR is produced by 23:59 in the America/Los Angeles time zone on the due date. (You can produce the PR by doing all your work on a branch, then clicking the New Pull Request button in GitHub.) I will grade by commenting on your PR.

Short Answer Problems

It’s getting late in the year so let’s skip the programming problems.

Write the answers to the following in nice markdown format and submit in short-answer-problems.md

In Comer, 5th edition, do problems 25.4, 26.4, 26.6, 26.12, 26.15, 27.2, 30.8, 30.11, 30.14, 30.17, 30.21.