Network Forensics

It is critical that today's network security professionals have a solid understanding of the real-world tools that are being used to attack our systems. With a focus on how we can better defend our systems, in this class we'll control a botnet for ourselves and demonstrate common and detection strategies. As it is one of the most common and serious exploitation methods today, we'll also take a look at web drive-by attacks and explore basic techniques to analyze malware collected from such attacks.