Courses Offered

COMP3365 Cyber Attack and Defense

2025-26

Instructor(s):

Yiu S M

(Class A)

No. of credit(s):

Recommended Learning Hours:

Lecture:	27
Tutorial:	9

Pre-requisite(s):

COMP3230 or COMP3234 or COMP3355

Co-requisite(s):

Mutually exclusive with:

Remarks:

Course Learning Outcomes

1.	Able to master key techniques and theories behind various hacking activities and provide solutions to protect the system under these attack
2.	Able to extend the knowledge to develop related attacks and methodologies to protect a system from similar attacks based on CLO1
3.	Able to self-learn new attacks and defense methodologies

T - Teach, P - Practice
For BEng(CompSc) Programme Learning Outcomes, please refer to here.

Syllabus

Calendar Entry:

Detailed Description:

Introduction to password cracking	Mapped to CLOs
	1, 2
Introduction to ethical hacking framework	Mapped to CLOs
	1, 2
Network hacking	Mapped to CLOs
	1, 2
Operating system hacking	Mapped to CLOs
	1, 2
Application hacking	Mapped to CLOs
	1, 2
Tools for hacking and defense	Mapped to CLOs
	1, 2
Advanced topics (e.g. state-of-the-art hacking and defense methodologies)	Mapped to CLOs
	3

Assessment:
Continuous Assessment: 40%
Written Examination: 60%

Teaching Plan

Please refer to the corresponding Moodle course.

Moodle Course(s)