Week 1: Opening lecture

The first lecture, covering what the course is, why it is structured this way, and what happens in Week 1

27 July 2027

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The opening lecture sets the terms the rest of the semester works within: what counts as malware, and why the answer is less obvious than it sounds.

Outline#

• what counts as malware?
• history of malicious software
• major categories
• malware as a software-production problem