David Evans Nate Paul Anh Nguyen-Tuong CS851: Malware University of Virginia Computer Science Malware Seminar Fall 2004

7 September 2004CS851: Malware Spring Today Seminar Overview Sign up for Presentations Worms Then and Now

7 September 2004CS851: Malware Spring Registration Surveys Most acceptable time: Tuesdays, 3-5pm –14 out of 15 listed it as possible –9 out of 15 listed it as preferred 7 first year graduate students, 8 second and higher Research interests: –Software Dependability (7), Wireless sensor networks (2), Network/Distributed Security (2), Software/OS Security (2), Gene expression microarray analysis (1), RFID (1)

7 September 2004CS851: Malware Spring Work Topic Presentations –Groups of 2 or 3 people for each meeting –Group should work together to produce a coherent presentation –Each person should present some part Everyone should participate in class Projects (3 unit) Grades based on your contribution to the seminar (everyone should get an A)

7 September 2004CS851: Malware Spring Before the Presentation Select a topic that is interesting to you –Topics for next 3 meetings are prescribed –Suggestions for later meetings posted on website (but not meant to be exhaustive – any relevant, interesting topic is fine) Select topic and class readings –At least 2 weeks before: discuss (or ) your topic and readings idea with course staff –Send full citations and links for posting on website (at least 1 week before)

7 September 2004CS851: Malware Spring At the Presentation Presenters are expected to go in much more depth than just assigned readings! –Presentations should not be “book reports” –Think critically about papers, bring in other results and papers, propose new ideas –Relate ideas and results from the selected papers Presentation should be provocative –Raise interesting discussion questions

7 September 2004CS851: Malware Spring After the Presentation Send slides for posting on the website

7 September 2004CS851: Malware Spring Projects 3-unit seminar includes research project –Most 1 st year grad students should do project –Most senior grad students should do 1-unit version Details on projects are on website One-page topic mini-proposal due 28 Sept –Start thinking (and discussing) ideas for your project now

7 September 2004CS851: Malware Spring Rule #1 Don’t get arrested. If you do anything that involves analyzing malware in this class, you must be ethical and careful. If in doubt, always get permission first! (David Smith, Melissa Author)

7 September 2004CS851: Malware Spring Seminar Question In ten years, will: 1.Society will have suffered a major catastrophe as a result of an Internet-launched epidemic attack. 2.The Internet have been effectively destroyed because of prevalence of epidemic attacks. A new closed, commercial network will begin to replace it. 3.Things will be much like they are now: persistent threats, common annoyances, but people still trust Internet for semi-critical tasks. 4.Technologies have emerged (and been successfully deployed) that make epidemic attacks a thing of the past. The Internet will be trusted for the most critical tasks.

7 September 2004CS851: Malware Spring Nate Paul