Case Studies

In order to provide a broad exposure to information security issues and events, each studentis expected to present one case study to the class during the course of the semester. The case study topics we'll tentatively cover each day are listed below. If you would like to cover a topic not appearing below, feel free to suggest something new and we'll cover it in class.

• 9/2: Therac-25 - Lane
  
• 9/7: Monster.com - Cristin
  
• 9/9: Fake Subpoenas - Patrick K.
  
• 9/21: Norwegian ATMs - Kelly F.
  
• 9/21: Open Topic - Matt
  
• 9/23: Epilepsy Foundation - Blake
  
• 9/28: Stock Spam - Kathleen
  
• 9/28: Open Topic - David S.
  
• 9/30: Lost Laptop - Kevin
  
• 10/5: Hacking Jail - Casey
  
• 10/5: Open Topic - Michael
  
• 10/7: Getting Hackers Through Their Targets - Tyrone
  
• 10/28: Hotel Hackers - Erica
  
• 11/2: Election Hacking - Mark
  
• 11/2: Open Topic - Luke
  
• 11/4: Click Fraud - Ian


• 11/4:Open Topic - Jimmy K


• 11/9: Social Engineering at DefCon - Caela


• 11/9: Open Topic - Alex M.


• 11/11:Blaster and the Blackout - Steve


• 11/16: Landline Hacking - Jimmy L.
• 11/23:Open Topic - Mike H.


• 11/30:Open Topic - Jackie


• 11/30:Open Topic - Matt


• 12/2:Open Topic - Alex W.

Available topics: SQL Slammer worm, Express Scripts extortion

The topics above are linked to supporting materials, where available. You may need to do additional research to provide enough material to fill your class discussion time. Your talk should be about 10 minutes long and cover the following items:

• What happened?
• What is the root cause of the event?
• What would you have done differently?

Please select a topic by adding a comment to this blog post. First come, first served