CS 8001 INF: Information Security Seminar
Fall 2008
Instructor
Dr. Jon Giffin
Email: giffin@cc
Phone: 4/385-1060
Office: Klaus 3140
Office hours: 3:00pm Mondays or by appointment
Meetings
- Regular seminar sessions:
Fridays 12:00–1:00
Klaus 1116 E - Over the course of the semester, we will have several irregular seminars scheduled at other times. The schedule below shows the date, time, and room for all presentations.
- MiRC meeting location:
Microelectronics Research Center Room 102
791 Atlantic Dr - Anyone interested in computer and information security is welcome to attend the seminars even if they do not register for the course.
Mailing list
We will send weekly announcements with details of the next presentation to the security-seminar mailing list. Whether or not you register for CS 8001-INF, please add yourself to the mailing list if you are interested in our seminar series. [Subscribe]
Schedule
| Date | Time & room | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 22 | 12:00 Klaus 1116 E | Organizational meeting |
| Aug 29 | 12:00 Klaus 1116 E | Patrick Traynor, Georgia Tech Can you DoS me now? Security issues in cellular networks |
| Sep 5 | 12:00 Klaus 1116 E | Abhinav Srivastava, Georgia Tech Tamper-resistant, application-aware blocking of malicious network connections |
| Tue Sep 9 | 5:00 Klaus 1116 E | Patrick Taylor, Oversight Systems Bio |
| Sep 12 | 12:00 Klaus 1116 E | Speaker information to be conveyed verbally |
| Sep 19 | 12:00 Klaus 1116 E | Jon Giffin, Georgia Tech |
| Sep 26 | 12:00 Klaus 1116 E | Volker Roth, FXPAL [Abstract] |
| Oct 3 | N/A | No seminar |
| Oct 10 | 12:00 Klaus 1116 E | Virendra Kumar, Georgia Tech Identity-based encryption with efficient revocation |
| Oct 17 | 12:00 MiRC 102B | Richard Clayton, University of Cambridge What we now know about phishing websites |
| Tuesday, Oct 21 | 4:30 Klaus 1116 E | Richard (Dickie) M. George, National Security Agency The Information Assurance Cyber Challenge Facing the US Government |
| Oct 24 | 12:00 MiRC 102A | Artem Dinaburg, Georgia Tech Ether: Malware analysis via hardware virtualization extensions |
| Oct 31 | 12:00 Klaus 1116 E | Killian Weinberger, Yahoo! [Abstract] |
| Nov 7 | 12:00 MiRC 102A | Nick Feamster, Georgia Tech (15 mins) Sasha Boldyreva, Georgia Tech (30 mins) |
| Nov 14 | 12:00 Klaus 1116 E | No seminar |
| Nov 21 | 12:00 Klaus 1116 E | Chaitrali Amrutkar, Georgia Tech (15 mins) Guest moderator: Frank Park |
| Dec 5 | 12:00 Klaus 1116 E | Weidong Cui, Microsoft Research [Abstract] |
To schedule a talk in an open time slot, send an email to Jon Giffin at giffin@gtisc.
Grading
Grading in this course is based on attendance. Students pass the course by attending 11 or more of the seminar sessions beginning August 22. Students failing to attend at least 11 seminars will receive an unsatisfactory grade for the course.