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Weekly Calendar for Applied Cyber Forensics

[Week 1] [Week 2] [Week 3] [Week 4] [Week 5]
[Week 6] [Week 7] [Week 8] [Week 9] [Week 10]
[Week 11] [Week 12] [Week 13] [Week 14] [Week 15]

Assignment code

E - Exercise (do not need to turn in).
H - Homework (need to turn in hardcopy).
P - Programming projects.
Q - Quizzes.
M - Midterm exam.

Week 1

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Tuesday	Class Organizations General Introduction	Class Organization	Art: Chapter 0x100	Syllabus (PDF Format)
Thursday	Technical Introduction Introduction to Networking	Basic Computer Skills			H: homework #1 (Due 1/16/2018)

Week 2

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers/Examples	Assignments
Tuesday	Understanding Hex and File Analysis Basics	Understanding Hex Slides				In-class exercise
Thursday	Reporting and Evidence Seizure	Reporting and Evidence Seizure Slides

Week 3

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Tuesday	Disk Image Analysis - Part I	Disk Image Analysis - Part I
Thursday	Guest Speakers from FDLE

Week 4

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Tuesday	Disk Image Forensics Part 2	Disk Image Forensics Part 2
Thursday	FAT File Systems	FAT File System (PDF Version) NTFS (PDF Version)

Week 5

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Tuesday	Session Hijacking	Booting (PDF Version)				H: Homework Assignment #2 (Due. Feb. 15, 2018)
Thursday	Port Scanning	Disk Encryption (PDF Version

Week 6

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Tuesday	Windows Event Log	Windows Event Log
Thursday	Timeline Generation and Analysis	Timeline Generation and Analysis

Week 7

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Tuesday	Windows Networking and Firewall Logs	Windows Networking and Firewall Logs
Thursday	Browsers and E-mails	Browsers and E-mails Slides

Week 8

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Tuesday	Windows Internals	Windows Internals
Thursday	Windows Registry	Windows Registry

Week 9

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Tuesday	The Registry Root Hives	The Registry Root Hives
Thursday	Correlating Artifacts	Correlating Artifacts

Week 10

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Tuesday	Spring Break	Stay Safe
Thursday	Spring Break	Stay Safe

Week 11

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Tuesday	Malware Analysis	Malware Analysis
Thursday

Week 12

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Tuesday	Memory Forensics - Part I	Memory Forensics (PDF Version)
Thursday	Memory Forensics - Part I - Continued	Memory Forensics - Continued (PDF Version)

Week 13

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Tuesday	Memory Forensics - Part II	Memory Forensics II PDF Version
Thursday	Memory Forensics (Continued)	Memory Forensics II - Part II (PDF Version)

Week 14

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Tuesday	More on Malware	More on Malware
Thursday	Anti Forensics	Anti Forensics				Group Project (Due: April 26, 2018)

Final Exam Week

Date	Topics	Lecture Notes	Reading	Handout	Papers	Assignments
Friday	May 4, 5:00PM					Term Project Due

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