Category Archives: Announcements

Moving to a Forum

Posted on February 15, 2010 by Tadayoshi Kohno

For CSE 484 this year, we have switched from the blog format to the forum format. The course website is online at http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/484/10wi/. This year’s forum is online at https://catalysttools.washington.edu/gopost/board/kohno/14597/. We switched from the blog format to the forum format … Continue reading →

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Security Review: The Bike and its Lock

Posted on February 6, 2009 by oterod

EDIT: It appears that I goofed with the “more” tag when I first posted this, so I’ve included the rest of the article below. Since the days of waking up at 5am to watch the Tour de France live with … Continue reading →

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What to contribute (Winter 2009 CSE 484 / CSE M 584)

Posted on January 4, 2009 by Tadayoshi Kohno

Welcome to 2009 and another rendition of CSE 484 / CSE M 584, the University of Washington undergraduate and 5-th year Masters computer security course. Please familiarize yourself with this post from last year; it explains why we have this … Continue reading →

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Pacemaker and Implantable Defibrillator Security Paper at Oakland

Posted on May 26, 2008 by Tadayoshi Kohno

University of Washington CSE PhD student Dan Halperin et al.‘s paper on the security and privacy for pacemakers and implantable defibrillators just received the Best Paper Award at the annual IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (a.k.a. the “Oakland” conference). Dan and … Continue reading →

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Happy Spring Break!

Posted on March 25, 2008 by Tadayoshi Kohno

Have a great spring break everyone! To readers of this blog: Please expect low activity for a while. The University of Washington is on the quarter system, and our quarter just ended. Everyone in the class is, of course, encouraged … Continue reading →

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Time to test our security mindset

Posted on March 13, 2008 by felixctc

Hey everyone. I found a website where you can try to use various ways to hack through levels of password. I think this is a fun way to get in touch with our security mindsets and see how far you … Continue reading →

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Security Review: Apple iPhone 3rd party application support

Posted on March 9, 2008 by jimg

On Thursday, Apple happily unveiled its plan for third party support of native iPhone applications. The plan involves an application development and distribution pipeline including an iPhone SDK, a suite of IDE tools, and a sales and distribution plan through … Continue reading →

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