Category Archives: Announcements
Moving to a Forum
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
Security Review: The Bike and its Lock
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
What to contribute (Winter 2009 CSE 484 / CSE M 584)
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
Pacemaker and Implantable Defibrillator Security Paper at Oakland
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
Happy Spring Break!
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
Time to test our security mindset
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
Security Review: Apple iPhone 3rd party application support
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
Example Security Review #5
Michael Levine provided this example CSE 490K Security Review.
Example Security Review #4
John Kurkowski provided this example CSE 490K Security Review.
Example Security Review #3
Here’s another example CSE 490K Security Review.