COS 430 SPRING 2009 HW #13  DUE THURSDAY 5/7/09

I moved the due date to Thursday to give people more flexibility in 
dealing with the homework and finals. You can, of course, submit the 
homework before Thursday. If Larry Whitsel is not around to receive your 
homework, either give the HW to Ellen Johndro and ask her to put it in my 
office or slide it under the door of the Cybersecurity Lab.

Remember that Cyberwar II ends on Sunday May 3 at midnight. Tentatively we 
will have the final "debriefing" sometime on Monday May 4. Each person 
should include his team's final debriefing on the final CD.

STRUCTURED HOMEWORK

1. Do multiple-choice questions 1-20 on pp. 347-349 of EH.

2. Do Activities 13-1, 13-2, 13-3, and 13-4 of EH.

FREE-FORM HOMEWORK

1. Read Appendices A, B, C, D and E of PS.

For Appendix A, pick out three points from the checklist which you did not 
fully appreciate when you first read the chapter it was in. Explain what 
has made you appreciate that point better.

For Appendix B, write the usual 500 word or more summary detailing at 
least 3 main points.

For Appendix C, pick three papers that seem of interest to you and explain 
why they sound interesting. You do not have to read the papers, just 
explain why they sound interesting.

For Appendix D, pick out three resources that you think will be useful to 
you in the future.

For Appendix E, pick out three organizations that you think will be useful 
to you in the future.

SYSTEM HOMEWORK

Write and submit your final Cyberwar report. This report should include 
the same types of materials that your earlier weekly reports included. In 
particular, you should describe the status of various services and any 
problems you had keeping them running.

You need to supply logfiles to document what percent of the time your 
various services were up.

You should also document attacks that were made against your server and 
discuss whether the attacks were successful or not. Remember, not running 
services is not an acceptable defensive strategy in this class.

You will also need to document the efforts that you made to break into the 
other servers. In particular, you will have to find the servers and try to 
recover the nuggets. A component of your future report grade will be the 
aggressiveness and skill that you show on offense and defense. Your report 
should include the text of the nuggets that you placed on your computers, 
so that we can verify that people actually got the nuggets. Clearly, if 
you succeed in getting the nuggets of another team, you should include 
them in your report along with any IDs and passwords that you managed to 
find. It is important that everyone uses the last week of the Cyberwar to 
really explore the possibilities.

BE SURE TO SUBMIT YOUR SYSTEM HOMEWORK ON 2 CDs -- one for me and one for 
Larry Whitsel. Try to wrap CYberwar II up with a flourish.