- Common Vulnerabilities and Weaknesses
- How to use the CVE and CWE on-line databases to assess threats and mitigations
- Specific Design Considerations
- Specific things you can do to create a better design.
- Building Security in
- Security must be built in to a project, not added on.
- A Dramatic Failure
- The consequences of a bad design can haunt you forever.
- Bitcoin Foundations
- A detailed look at the first two sentences of the abstract of Nakamoto's 2009 paper announcing Bitcoin.
- The Bitcoin Project
- Continuing with the abstract of Nakamoto's Bitcoin paper. More details on how it works and how security is integrated into it.
- Simple software compromises
- A look into the specifics of two common exploitation techniques--buffer overflow and SQL injections. Even though they're "old", these exploits are still used today!
- Final Exam
- A comprehensive course assessment comprising of 5 quizzes. Each assessment contains a randomized set of questions from different modules of the course.
