The material will be presented through a combination of lectures, tutorials, practical exercises and directed self-study as a substitution for some tutorials.
Teaching will take place over 9 weeks and will be in the form of 1 lecture and 1 x 2 hour tutorial sessions for 5 weeks, week 6 ¿ week 8 1 hour lecture and 1 hour tutorial and week 9 1 hour lecture and 2 hours tutorial.

An assignment of 3000 words weighted at 100% (Learning Outcomes 1,2,3 and 4)
Assignment will typically require a critical review/analysis of a specific malicious code. The student will be required to perform either static or dynamic analysis of malicious code

This module examines operational viruses and malicious code that are designed to attack and compromise computer systems, and the methods used to exploit a weakness in installed software that could lead to the system being fully controlled. It examines ways in which software construction and testing can be made more secure against such attacks and how computer systems can be organised to prevent and reduce the risk from such attacks. This module will focus on the identification and the analysis malicious code.

FILE SYSTEM FORENSIC ANALYSIS, Carrier B, 2005, Pearson Education, ISBN: 0-321-26817-2
MALWARE ANALYST¿S COOKBOOK AND DVD, Ligh M, Adair S, Hartstein B, Richar M, 2011, ISBN: 978-0-470-61303-0
Malware Forensics: Investigating and Analyzing Malicious code, Malin, C, Aquilina, J, 2008, Syngress, ISBN: 159749268X

Access to the Digital Forensic Lab,
Access to virtual machines running a variety of operating systems with malicious code present on them.

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