Course Description
This course is built upon the previous course ISCS 530 where the students are taught the principles and practice of cryptography. In the first part of the class, students are given adequate knowledge on Packet Sniffing and Spoofing in Computer Network, TCP/IP protocol stack, Firewall, Domain Name System (DNS) and Virtual Private Network (VPN). In the second part of the class, we will focus on Transport Layer Security, Bitcoin and Block Chain, and Cross-Site Scripting Attack.
Course Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Define the critical characteristics of a Computer Network
- Â鶹ֱ²¥ sniffing and Spoofing Using Python.
- Understand different layers of TCP/IP protocol stack and apply TCP session hijacking attack
- Understand types of firewalls and build a simple firewall using Netfilter
- Understand DNS Hierarchy, Zones, and Servers and apply a denial-of-service attack on DNS servers
- Understand how TLS/SSL VPN work, setting up and testing a VPN
- Perform TLS Programming.
- Understand how Blockchain works, and apply mining in Blockchain
- Understand XSS attack and prevent XSS attack
