CSC (0145) 382 - Application Security

Credits: 3.00

Students will learn how to discover and exploit security vulnerabilities in web applications and computer software. Students will learn how to reverse engineer binaries to identify possible vulnerabilities and will explore techniques for fuzzing inputs.

Prerequisite 1: CSC 273
Course Learning Goals: After completion of this course, students will be able to:

Assess web applications for common vulnerabilities and write exploit code to attack these vulnerabilities
Use exploit frameworks to discover and exploit known vulnerabilities in software
Reverse engineer binaries to find vulnerabilities
Read program source code to find vulnerabilities
Develop exploit code that leverages format string vulnerabilities, integer overflows, and/or buffer overflows
Analyze file system operations and determine if they are secure