Follow the partner policy.
For this assignment, you're going to make a short video about
an important security history topic. Your video will tell the story of your
topic, and should include, as appropriate, brief descriptions of important
technical aspects of the topic.
Possible topics
Here's a short list of some possible topics. There are many
more choices, so feel free to propose something else that grabs your interest.
- Stuxnet
- NotPetya
- Ukraine power grid attack 2015
- The Morris Worm
- Heartbleed
- ILOVEYOU
- Attack on Estonia, 2007
- Shellshock
- Sony Pictures hack, 2014
- Aurora Generator Test
- Shadow Brokers & EternalBlue
- Spear-phishing John Podesta
- ...so many more examples!...
What to hand in
- Once you have chosen a topic, please post your names and topic in the #general channel on Slack.
- Post your video somewhere. Make it public for carleton.edu people (or, if you prefer,
completely public). If you need help sorting this out, let me know.
- Post a link to your video in the #general channel on Slack.
- Make sure your video includes text near the beginning showing all partners' names.
A little advice
- Picking your topic: choose something that you find
interesting and that you would like to know more about. Some of the topics
(e.g. Stuxnet) are complex enough to be worthy of
book-length discussion,
but still, a 10-minute video can get you started.
- Keep your video short—no more than 15 minutes
- Tell a story. What happened? Who did it happen to?
Why did it happen? What makes this topic interesting?
- Where appropriate, include relevant technical details. Your
audience is the other students in this class, so if, say, you're doing Heartbleed,
you can absolutely go into a little detail about how a bug in a TLS implementation
became exploitable. Not all topics will need this (e.g. if you decided to summarize
Edward Snowden's leaked documents), but for many topics, the story is enhanced
by a little technical knowledge.
Be creative, figure things out, ask questions, and have fun!