Thursday, October 28, 2010

Viruses & Malware

Continued the Dark Side slides through cookies.

Talked about the different types of malware. Viruses can be classified by how they gain access to a system, and what they do once they're in.

Ways to get in:
  • Trojan horse
  • worm
  • root kit
What they actually do (not a complete list):
  • wabbit (massive self-cloning to clog system)
  • Adware
  • Spyware
  • Zombie - Botnet
Just realized I did NOT talk about zombies and botnets in the 202 class.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Starting Security

All technology, including the internet, was designed and built by people for the use of people. This idea should always be remembered when dealing with internet security.

What is security? Protecting things of value. What has value? Anything we give value to. Recall the WoW kid and his non-understanding parent.

We did the "Dark side of the internet" slides up to Tiger Woods.

All nefarious acts on the internet have two categories: technical and social.
Recall the graph of "how to contact the person:" there were three branches: legit, tech hacking, and social engineering.

Technical (or straight hacking) defeats systems to obtain information or carry out the ill-intended deed. Social engineering is executing a con: tricking someone into giving something up. All false internet activity falls somewhere in the space defined by those two.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Topics for Mid-Term

definitions of terms
client/server model
server-/client-side processing
DNS
Server/Local copies
history of the internet
IP addresses
Binary
Size of data
HTML
CSS
hex colors
web browsers

Monday, October 18, 2010

Thursday October 14th:
Went over the turnin procedure for the website. We then had a nice revisit of binary number representation, converting between binary and decimal.

Tuesday October 12: No Class for Columbus Day

Thursday October 7th:
Worked on websites, I believe.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

BIg Website Project

September 30 we introduced the big website project. The requirements are here: http://91-113-f10-ms.wiki.uml.edu/WebsiteProject

October 5 we worked on the project in-class, with the goals of
  • 2 pages, linked together
  • CSS file created and set up