Hi everyone,
Welcome back from your quiet week. I hope everyone had the chance to destress after catching up on their courses.
Here is the link to submit report 1: https://moodle.telt.unsw.edu.au/mod/turnitintooltwo/view.php?id=8620034
Only one person from each group needs to submit the report. A reminder that they are due at 9am tomorrow (the 31st of March).
Kris.
Hi everyone,
We are extending the Report 1 due date by 24 hours due to the downtime today. There may be some sporadic (but short) downtime later today once I finish the cleanup, but everything should be back online now.
To reiterate: Report 1 is now due at 9am on Tuesday the 31st of March.
Thanks,
Hamish
Hello everyone,
It's now flex week. Take a breather and
start
finish off your reports - a reminder that these are due next Monday. Please ask any questions about reports on the forums, and we'll get to them at some point. Please also email any group issues to cs6443@cse.unsw.edu.au. We have some emails still to get to (sorry, midterm was and is still busy!), but a reminder is helpful.
There will be a help session from 12-3pm on Thursday in the SecLab in K17 (subject to change, we'll edit this notice if it does) run by Francis, focusing on your reports (but he'll be happy to answer challenge related and technical questions as well). We will see about potentially running one on Friday depending on how Thursday's goes.
A couple challenges have been posted on CTFd for those of you who would like to do them. None of it is worth marks, nor is it content for your reports, so it's purely in case you want something to do. They are challenges we can't really put anywhere else, so we might as well release them now.
We are working on midterm marking and expect to get marks out by the end of Week 7. We'll release some aggregate solve statistics (average solves, solve rates, etc) either sometime this week or during next Monday's lecture.
Enjoy your week without lectures and tutes!
Thanks,
Hamish and Kris
Hello everyone!
I hope everyone is progressing in the challenges and studying diligently for the midterm.
The midterm will be held on Thursday the 19th of March (tomorrow!) at 10am Sydney time. It is online and the exam can be accessed at https://midterm.quoccacorp.com . As of posting, this site will show a countdown. Make sure that you have mTLS setup and can see the countdown on the device you intend to complete the exam with. Once the exam begins ( Thursday 19th March, 10am Sydney time), the midterm page will be replaced with links to the exam questions.
If you have special considerations, I will be in touch with you via email tonight. If you are entitled to spec cons and you do not receive an email from me before 8am tomorrow morning, please get in touch with your ELP so that I can make an adjustment.
An exam questions thread is now on the forum and will be the primary method of communication during the exam : https://discourse02.cse.unsw.edu.au/26T1/COMP3443/t/midterm-exam-megathread/71
The submission template is available on WebCMS under Course Work -> Assessment Specs -> Midterm Template, directly here: https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP6443/26T1/resources/120477 , or alternatively here once the exam starts: https://midterm.quoccacorp.com/template.txt
Your completed exam can be submitted here: https://moodle.telt.unsw.edu.au/mod/assign/view.php?id=8529558&forceview=1 , or found directly on the Moodle homepage.
Finally, our incredible tutors Francis and Nicholas have cooperated to write a small cheatsheet to help you in your study and time management in the exam. This includes helpful tips and links to tools you might find interesting. You can access it on WebCMS under Course Work -> Assessment Specs -> Midterm Cheatsheet, or directly here: https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP6443/26T1/resources/120479
Please post on the forums if you have any questions. See you in the lectures!
Thanks,
Hamish and Kris.
Hi everyone,
Since the Week 4 Monday lecture had poor audio, we've uploaded last year's recording as an alternative: https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP6443/26T1/resources/120429
Similarly, since the Week 4 Extended lecture was missed, last year's recording has been uploaded as well: https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP6443/26T1/resources/120430
The midterm is the same between both courses, so extended content will not be assessed during the midterm, so no need to panic if you can't fit in watching it until after the midterm.
Thanks,
Hamish
Hi everyone,
This morning from ~3am through to ~10am there was challenge and CTFd downtime across all challenges. To avoid any impact on people's submissions, we are extending the due date for Topic 2 by 24 hours to Saturday 6pm . The assessment spec will be updated to reflect this.
I'm also going to take this opportunity to remind everyone to submit the group registration form: https://forms.office.com/r/skrQ1vVYQv
Thanks,
Hamish
Hello everyone!
We hope everyone has been enjoying the course so far!
This notice is to let everyone know that the assessment spec for Report 1 is now available: https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP6443/26T1/resources/119419
UPDATE 2026-03-03 18:56: Fixed wrong info about allowed group members.
However, more importantly:
Please fill in this form to register your group (or ask to be placed in a group) by the end of Friday : https://forms.office.com/r/skrQ1vVYQv
You will receive a 5% bonus if you correctly register your group and (later on) submit your report.
If you don't currently have a group, I would strongly recommend trying to find a group at a tutorial this week before submitting the above form.
Also an FYI that there will be up to 2 hours of quoccacorp.com downtime from 7pm to 9pm tonight.
Thanks,
Hamish and Kris
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the course! We've finally got the Moodle page set up, which you can use to access the lecture recordings. URL is here: https://moodle.telt.unsw.edu.au/course/view.php?id=96573
The first set of weekly activities is also open, you can see them on ctfd - https://ctfd.quoccacorp.com/ - and the activity description is here: https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP6443/26T1/resources/119469
Please get to a tutorial this week to get properly set up with mTLS and with Burp+Python as you will need it for the exercises this week.
If you have any questions or difficulties, start with a question on Discourse, or email the class account at cs6443@cse.unsw.edu.au.
Kris.