[74] in Security FYI
tonight, concepts in computer and network insecurity, IAP seminar
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Fu)
Wed Jan 10 11:31:22 2001
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 11:15:49 EST
From: Kevin Fu <fubob@MIT.EDU>
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The insecurity seminar will take place tonight. If the audio-visual
equipment works correctly, the lecture will also include a short,
historical video and a couple live demonstrations. Coffee and bottled
water will be provided.
This is not a systems administration seminar about how to secure your
system. Rather, we focus on concepts and vulnerabilities in
computing.
Feel free to spread the word in the appropriate forums.
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Kevin E. Fu (fubob@mit.edu)
PGP key: https://snafu.fooworld.org/~fubob/pgp.html
Concepts in Computer and Network Insecurity
Kevin Fu and Roger Dingledine, MIT Network Security Team
Wed Jan 10, 7-10pm, Room 1-190
Open to public, but MIT community gets priority.
http://websis.mit.edu/searchiap/iap-2434.html
We will discuss concepts of computer and network insecurity. Topics
include network protocol (IP) vulnerabilities, buffer overflows and
other user-level and root-level exploits, probing techniques, Web
authentication, SSL, distributed denial of service, common security
flaws, and other related topics depending on participants' interests.
Time permitting, we will give live demonstrations. Familiarity with
UNIX is recommended.
Roger Dingledine '99 (6-3, 18, M.Eng 6) and Kevin Fu '98 (6-3A, M.Eng
6) are members of the MIT Network Security Team. Both were M.Eng
students of Prof. Ron Rivest in the Lab for Computer Science (LCS).
Roger conducts research in anonymous distributed publishing systems.
He is the project leader for both the Simple End-User Linux project
<seul.org> and the Free Haven project <freehaven.net>, and is an
author of the upcoming O'Reilly book "Peer-to-peer". Currently he
works as the Security Philosopher for Reputation Technologies,
Inc. <reputation.com>.
Kevin is a doctoral student in the Parallel and Distributed Operating
Systems group at LCS. His advisor is Prof. Frans Kaashoek. Kevin
also coordinates the LCS Applied Security Reading Group
<http://pdos.lcs.mit.edu/asrg/>. His research interests include
secure file systems <http://www.fs.net/> and user authentication on
the Web.
We also have a poster to announce the seminar:
http://web.mit.edu/net-security/www/sec-concepts.ps
