While short training courses in reverse engineering are frequently offered at meetings like Blackhat and through training organizations such as SANS, there are virtually no reverse engineering courses offered in academia. This paper discusses possible reasons for this situation, emphasizes the importance of teaching reverse engineering (and applied computer security education in general), and p...

A honeypot is a type of security facility deliberately created to be probed, attacked, and compromised. It is often used for protectingproduction systemsbydetecting anddeflectingunauthorized accesses. It is also useful for investigating the behavior of attackers, and in particular, unknown attacks. For the past 17 years plenty of effort has been invested in the research and development of honey...

distinguishable players are randomly fitted with a white or black hat, where the probabilities of getting a white or black hat may be different for each player, but known to all the players. All players guess simultaneously the color of their own hat observing only the hat colors of the other − 1 players. It is also allowed for each player to pass: no color is guessed. The team wins if at least...