January 23, 2019: The CNS final exam will take place in two dates:

• Thursday, January 24, 2019, 5pm, room PR706
• Sunday, January 27, 2019, 5pm, room PR706

You may take part in any exam date irrespective of your master program. To have an estimate of your participation, please fill your name on the corresponding thread on the Discussions forum.

Please check the wiki for information about the CNS final exam.

January 23, 2019: We will not truncate assignment grades. Those of you who already have enough points are graded 10 in the Class Register and aren't required to take part in the final exam. Congratulations!

January 13, 2019: There will be no CNS lecture on Monday, January 14, 2019, 6pm-8pm. The last CNS lab will take place on Monday, January 14, 2019, 4pm-6pm, room PR706. There will be no CNS lab on Monday, January 14, 2019 during the 8pm-10pm timeslot.

The deadline for Assignment 3 is Tuesday, January 16, 2019, 11pm.

Good luck in the exam session!

January 12, 2019: We've published the grades for lecture test #5 in the class register. If you consider the grade is wrong, follow the instructions in the respective thread on the curs.pub.ro Discussions forum.

January 6, 2019: We value your opinions and input on improving the Computer and Network Security class (CNS) and its components. Please take the time and fill the feedback form on curs.pub.ro. You have to be logged in and enrolled to the course.

The feedback form is anonymous and active from January 7, 2019 to January 18, 2019. We will only be able to see the results at the end of the exam session. The feedback form will become available from January 7, 2019. You will find the link to the feedback form on the main page of the curs.pub.ro instance for your master's program CNS class (either PDCS or SRIC). It's not in the meta-course for all students.

We kindly ask you to evaluate the activity of the CNS team and mention the strong and weak points and your suggestions for improvement. Your feedback will help us improve both the CNS class and other classes you will go through in the future.

We will provide our analysis of your feedback at the beginning of the next semester.

We are particularly interested in:

• What didn't you like and what you consider didn't go well?
• Why didn't you like that and why you consider it didn't go well?
• What should we do to make things likable and going well?

December 10, 2018: Assignment 3 is live. It follows a CTF format. The CTF platform is here. Please follow the instructions and create an account on the platform.

December 9, 2018: Lecture test #5 will take place on Monday, December 11, 2018, at 6:05pm, at the beginning of lecture 11, in room PRECIS 002. Please be there on time.

The test will cover topics from lecture 09: Strings and lecture 10: Return Oriented Programming.

Please find information on lecture tests on the corresponding wiki section.

December 9, 2018: We've published the grades for lecture test #4 in the class register. If you consider the grade is wrong, follow the instructions in the respective thread on the curs.pub.ro Discussions forum.

November 24, 2018: Lecture test #4 will take place on Monday, November 26, 2018, at 6:05pm, at the beginning of lecture 9, in room PRECIS 002. Please be there on time.

The test will cover topics from lecture 07: Exploiting. Shellcodes (Part 2) and lecture 08: Exploit Protection Mechanisms.

Please find information on lecture tests on the corresponding wiki section.

November 19, 2018: Assignment 2 is live. It follows a CTF format. The CTF platform is here. Please follow the instructions and create an account on the platform.

November 14, 2018: We've published the grades for lecture test #3 in the class register. If you consider the grade is wrong, follow the instructions in the respective thread on the curs.pub.ro Discussions forum.

November 11, 2018: Lecture test #3 will take place on Monday, November 12, 2018, at 6:05pm, at the beginning of lecture 7, in room PRECIS 002. Please be there on time.

The test will cover topics from lecture 05: The Stack. Buffer Management and lecture 06: Exploiting. Shellcodes.

Please find information on lecture tests on the corresponding wiki section.

November 4, 2018: We've published the grades for lecture tests #1 and #2 in the class register. If you consider the grade is wrong, follow the instructions in the respective thread on the curs.pub.ro Discussions forum.

October 29, 2018: Assignment 1 is live. It follows a CTF format. The CTF platform is here. Please follow the instructions and create an account on the platform.

October 28, 2018: Lecture test #2 will take place on Monday, October 29, 2018, at 6:05pm, at the beginning of lecture 5, in room PRECIS 106. Please be there on time.

The first lecture test will cover topics from lecture 03: Executables. Static Analysis and lecture 04: Processes. Dynamic Analysis. GDB

Please find information on lecture tests on the corresponding wiki section.

October 15, 2018: The first lecture test will take place today, Monday, the 15th of October 2018, at 6:05pm, at the beginning of lecture 3, in room PRECIS 106. Please be there on time.

The first lecture test will cover topics from lecture 01: Introduction. Basic Exploration Tools and lecture 02: Assembly Language

Please find information on lecture tests on the corresponding wiki section.

September 23, 2018: Welcome to the wonderful and challenging world of security. Put on your hackers hats, get your assembly skills on, start thinking in binary and let's get cracking! The Computer and Network Security class focuses on offensive security: i.e. reverse engineering, binary analysis, exploiting and runtime application security. We will not tackle crypto or web security as these are going to be better handled at other classes. Enjoy the ride!

The first Computer and Network Security lecture will take place on Monday, October 1, 2018, room PRECIS 106. The first Computer and Network Security lab will take place on Monday, October 1, 2018, 8pm-10pm, in room PRECIS 706, EG106 and EG306. The last instance of the first lab will take place on Monday, October 7, 2018, 4pm-6pm.

All information is on the wiki. Please check the CNS Need to Know page.

For starters please join the mailing list. The administrative staff will also provide you access to the cs.curs.pub.ro class.