COMP6445 Notices

Notices

  • Report 2 mark and feedback

    Posted by Arash Shaghaghi 🎓 Saturday 22 November 2025, 11:58:11 PM.

    Dear All,

    Report 2 mark and feedback are accessible on Moodle under the Grade tab.

    If you are a student of Lachlan's lab, you will not be able to see feedback, but only a mark. He is providing these soon, and I will make them available as soon as I have them.

    Thank you.

    Arash

  • Important: note the class location

    Posted by Arash Shaghaghi 🎓 Wednesday 19 November 2025, 05:50:45 PM.

    K-J14-G5 - Keith Burrows Theatre

    https://www.learningenvironments.unsw.edu.au/physical-spaces/k-j14/k-j14-g5

  • A note from Wes for tomorrow's mock trial

    Posted by Arash Shaghaghi 🎓 Tuesday 18 November 2025, 03:02:39 PM.

    To prepare for our upcoming mock trial tomorrow and to best simulate a real courtroom environment, we ask students participating to dress in professional attire. There is no expectation to purchase attire; ideally, clothing such as slacks/khakis, collared shirts or blouses, closed-toe shoes, and optional blazers is preferred. Please avoid jeans, t-shirts, sneakers, or overly casual clothing whenever possible.

    See you tomorrow. Wes.

  • Important Reminders

    Posted by Arash Shaghaghi 🎓 Tuesday 18 November 2025, 01:33:57 PM, last modified Tuesday 18 November 2025, 01:34:10 PM.

    Dear All,

    Friendly reminders:

    • Today's class at 6 PM is online on Zoom and will be dedicated to exam preparation. Wes delivers this session and is <u>not</u> recorded. Link is available here .
    • Tomorrow (Wed, 19th), the mock trial will be held at 6 PM in a different lecture room . The lecture room is K-J14-G5 - Keith Burrows Theatre . <u>All students are expected to attend, and there will be an attendance check during this session.</u>
    • Change of schedule for tutorials tomorrow (Wed, 19th): Sessions at 5 PM (W17A) and 7 PM (W19A) are cancelled due to the mock trial. Students enrolled in these sessions are welcome to attend other sessions during the week.

    Best wishes, Arash.

  • Sample Exam Released

    Posted by Andrew Wong 🐻 Thursday 13 November 2025, 11:55:52 PM.

    The sample exam has been released. See this resource on WebCMS (Course Work > Lectures).
    We encourage you to attempt these questions and familiarise yourself with the layout of the exam.

    For any enquiries, create a new post on Discourse

  • Week 10 Schedule (Exam Revision + Mock Trial)

    Posted by Andrew Wong 🐻 Wednesday 12 November 2025, 04:46:42 PM, last modified Thursday 13 November 2025, 11:54:35 PM.

    Week 10 Schedule

    18th November - Tuesday 6pm - Exam Revision
    This revision session will be held on Zoom, we will be revising the contents of the course and answering any questions regarding the exam.

    This session will <u>not</u> be recorded


    19th November - Wednesday 6pm - Mock Trial
    Location: Keith Burrows Theatre (K-J14)


    ⚠️ No W17A or W19A tutorials for Week 10


    (added 13th November 11:55pm) Sample Exam
    The sample exam can be accessed here


    MyExperience Survey
    Help shape the future of this course - fill out the MyExperience Survey


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    If you have any queries, create a post on Discourse

  • Today's lecture reminder - Ainsworth G03 (K-J17-G03)

    Posted by Arash Shaghaghi 🎓 Tuesday 11 November 2025, 11:34:43 AM, last modified Tuesday 11 November 2025, 11:34:59 AM.

    Dear All,

    As announced last week, we have an interesting industry speaker for today's lecture. Song Fang (Senior Incident Responder at Atlassian) will be delivering an in-person lecture today at Ainsworth G03 (K-J17-G03) [6 PM]. The lecture is mainly planned to be an in-person session, and we are not sure if we will be able to record. We encourage everyone to attend and engage with our industry speaker.

    Best, Arash.

  • Important: Mock Trial Date and Time + Attendance Expected

    Posted by Arash Shaghaghi 🎓 Monday 10 November 2025, 12:56:02 AM, last modified Monday 10 November 2025, 01:17:44 AM.

    Dear All,

    🚨 The mock trial date/time is Wednesday, the 19th of November at 6 PM. We have had to adjust the date/time due to the unavailability of our honorable judge. Hence, there is no lecture on Tuesday, the 18th of November at 6 PM. The mock trial is a fully in-person session, with no recording or online attendance.

    📌 Due to this change, the Week 10 online lab (usually scheduled for Wed, 7 PM) will be on Tuesday, the 18th of November, at 6 PM .

    We are hosting Prof Lyria Bennett Moses (Head of School, School of Law, Society and Criminology) as our judge for the mock trial. Wes is travelling to Sydney and will be running the show. Andrew and Lachlan will also be in the mock trial. The team is working hard to prepare for this session, and 6 students will be contacted to provide evidence in court. Wes will contact these students directly through email.

    We expect all students to attend this course, and we plan to run an attendance check - no mark for attendance, but attendance will help later if we are reviewing borderline grades.

    Best, Arash


  • CTF Wargames Schedule

    Posted by Andrew Wong 🐻 Sunday 09 November 2025, 10:31:47 PM.

    The final set of CTF wargame challenges (Incident Response) will be released tomorrow (Monday 10th November).
    They, along with all Detections challenges - will be due at the end of Week 10

    • Week 7 - Mobile - Due 9th November 11.59pm
    • Week 8 - Detections (Detection, Detection - SIEM, Detection - Malware lab) - Due 23rd November 11.59pm
    • Week 9 - Incident Response - Due 23rd November 11.59pm

    We hope you've enjoyed these challenges and have learned some practical skills throughout the challenges

  • Tomorrow's lecture [In-person at Ainsworth G03 (J17-G03)]

    Posted by Arash Shaghaghi 🎓 Monday 03 November 2025, 03:47:10 PM, last modified Monday 03 November 2025, 03:50:10 PM.

    Dear All,

    Dr Jesse Laeuchli is delivering tomorrow's lecture at Ainsworth G03 (K-J17-G03). It's unclear at this stage if this session can be streamed or recorded. I strongly encourage everyone to attend.

    We will also have an industry lecturer next week. Song Fang (Senior Incident Responder at Atlassian) will be delivering an in-person lecture next week, too. Similarly, Song's session is primarily planned to be an in-person event in this offering.

    Best,

    Arash

  • Today online lecture at 6 PM

    Posted by Arash Shaghaghi 🎓 Tuesday 28 October 2025, 02:29:58 PM.

    Dear All,

    A friendly reminder that Wes will be having an online lecture today at 6 PM. There will be no professionalism lecture recording this week.

    We will return to the class next week. Jesse will be delivering his guest lecture in the class.

    Best, Arash.


  • Report 2 Guidance

    Posted by Andrew Wong 🐻 Monday 27 October 2025, 10:29:40 PM.

    As a follow-up, another post on Discourse has been created to guide you through revising your report

    Please see Report 2 Guidance on Discourse

  • Report 1 Marks and Feedback

    Posted by Andrew Wong 🐻 Sunday 26 October 2025, 03:27:58 PM.

    Hi everyone, Report 1 marks and individual feedback have been published to Moodle.
    General feedback has been posted on Discourse

  • Report 1 Feedback

    Posted by Arash Shaghaghi 🎓 Thursday 23 October 2025, 07:39:21 AM.

    Dear All,

    We will be releasing feedback and marks for Report 1 by Sunday. This will give you a week to use the feedback for changes in Report 2.

    Thank you.

    Arash

  • Interesting Online Seminar at CSIRO

    Posted by Arash Shaghaghi 🎓 Wednesday 22 October 2025, 04:42:18 PM.

    Dear All,

    You may find this online talk interesting. It's organised by CSIRO and is publicly accessible - you need to register.

    https://events.csiro.au/Events/2025/October/22/Towards-an-All-in-One-Media-Forensics-Tool

    Abstract :

    Intelligence analysts, journalists, and forensics experts must quickly and accurately examine and report on information in multiple modalities, including video, audio, and images. With the rise of Generative AI, these specialists face unprecedented challenges, and require effective, reliable, and explainable media detection and analysis tools. This work explores their requirements for deepfake detection tools and explainability features, with studies involving 30 US-based intelligence analysts, 24 US journalists, and 11 Bangladeshi journalists. We conclude that these specialists need an all-in-one tool for media forensics and propose an ontology-based approach to creating a navigable user interface for such a tool.

    Bio:

    Matthew Wright, PhD, is a Kevin O'Sullivan Professor and the Chair of Cybersecurity at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Dr. Wright has co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed papers, including works appearing in top venues like IEEE S&P ("Oakland"), CCS, USENIX Security, NDSS, ACM CHI, INFOCOM, and numerous IEEE & ACM transactions. He won an NSF CAREER award in 2010 and has been PI on $5.8 million in externally funded projects. Within the field of cybersecurity, he has worked primarily in four topic areas: privacy and anonymity online, human factors in security, distributed systems security, and the application of AI to cybersecurity problems

  • Week 5 Recordings

    Posted by Arash Shaghaghi 🎓 Wednesday 15 October 2025, 07:39:02 AM.

    Dear All,

    Recordings for Week 5 are now available here .

    Please raise any questions on Discourse.

    Best, Arash

  • Week 5 Technical Lecture at 6 PM

    Posted by Arash Shaghaghi 🎓 Tuesday 14 October 2025, 05:03:15 PM.

    Dear All,

    A friendly reminder that we will be having a technical lecture with Wes on Zoom at 6 PM. We will not be using the lecture room this week, and the lecture will be fully online. The lecture is recorded and made available on WebCMS tomorrow morning. The link to access the live Zoom lecture is available from here .

    Best, Arash

  • Report 2 Released

    Posted by Andrew Wong 🐻 Tuesday 14 October 2025, 01:10:27 AM.

    Report 2 has been released, due 2nd November 2025 @ 11.59pm

    See [Investigation Report 2] to view details

  • Moodle link for report submission

    Posted by Arash Shaghaghi 🎓 Saturday 11 October 2025, 12:11:46 PM, last modified Saturday 11 October 2025, 12:33:36 PM.

    Dear All,

    Here is a direct link that you can use to submit Report 1 on Moodle: https://moodle.telt.unsw.edu.au/mod/turnitintooltwo/view.php?id=8122542

    Best, Arash

  • Week 4 Recordings now available

    Posted by Arash Shaghaghi 🎓 Wednesday 08 October 2025, 11:12:27 AM.

    Dear All,

    Recordings for Week 4 are now available here .

    Please raise any questions on Discourse.

    Best, Arash

  • Reminder: Online Lecture at 6 PM

    Posted by Arash Shaghaghi 🎓 Tuesday 07 October 2025, 04:59:54 PM.

    Dear All,

    A friendly reminder that we will be having a technical lecture with Wes on Zoom at 6 PM . We will not be using the lecture room this week , and the lecture will be fully online. The lecture is recorded and made available on WebCMS tomorrow morning. The link to access the live Zoom lecture is available from here .

    Best, Arash


  • Week 3 Recorded Technical Lectures and Online Lab

    Posted by Arash Shaghaghi 🎓 Wednesday 01 October 2025, 10:58:45 PM.

    Dear All,

    Please note that the recordings of the technical lecture and the extended technical lecture are now available here .

    Recording of today's online lab is also available here .

    Best, Arash.

  • Week 3 - Professionalism Lecture

    Posted by Arash Shaghaghi 🎓 Tuesday 30 September 2025, 05:56:25 PM.

    Dear All,

    Week 3 Professionalism Lecture recording is available on WebCMS. You can find it here .

    Wes will start his Zoom lecture in 5 minutes. Link is available here .

    Best, Arash

  • Week 3

    Posted by Arash Shaghaghi 🎓 Tuesday 30 September 2025, 09:31:56 AM.

    Dear All,

    Welcome to Week 3 of COMP6445/6845.

    📌 A few reminders:

    • We will be having a technical lecture with Wes on Zoom at 6 PM . We will not be using the lecture room this week , and the lecture will be fully online. The lecture is recorded and made available on WebCMS tomorrow morning. The link to access the live Zoom lecture is available from here . This week's technical lecture is easier than last week.
    • Jesse and I will be recording the professionalism lecture later today, and it will be made available to you on WebCMS in the afternoon. I will send an announcement once it is available.
    • Your results for Week 1 Challenges will be available on Friday. We have to wait 5 days so that those of you submitting late with a penalty are done.
    • The online lab is happening again on Wednesday at 19 hours. You can access the session using the links below. The Zoom link remains the same and doesn't change.
    • It is probably a good time to start working on Investigation Report 1 . Submission of the report is on Moodle, and I will send instructions closer to the due date.

    Best,
    Arash

  • Week 2 Technical Lecture Recording and Lab W19A [Reminder]

    Posted by Arash Shaghaghi 🎓 Wednesday 24 September 2025, 11:53:25 AM, last modified Wednesday 24 September 2025, 11:54:35 AM.

    Dear All,

    The recording of last night's lecture by Wes covering the technical content of Week 2 is available on WebCMS. You can access it from here .

    Just a friendly reminder that tonight's 7 PM lab ( W19A ) is held on Zoom for the entire trimester in response to student feedback ( tutor is not in the lab and attends online ). You are welcome to attend this lab if you have missed your regular lab and need help.

    All the other labs are in-person as per the timetable .

    📌 W19A lab Zoom access details are below (same for the entire trimester):

    Zoom Link : https://unsw.zoom.us/j/81301101019?pwd=bxQbaViauIbgvTMJUqlb3AAvM86VoZ.1&from=addon
    Password : 828901

  • Welcome to Week 2 and Important Reminders

    Posted by Arash Shaghaghi 🎓 Tuesday 23 September 2025, 12:36:24 PM, last modified Tuesday 23 September 2025, 12:36:52 PM.

    Dear All,

    Welcome to Week 2!

    🎥 Jesse and I recorded the professionalism lecture last night. It is made available as a recording, and you can access it from here .

    🚨 Wes is delivering the technical lecture on Zoom later today at 6 PM. The Zoom link is accessible from here . As mentioned before, we will not be using the lecture room in weeks 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7. Wes's lecture is recorded and made available on WebCMS.

    Please also note that

    • Week 2-3 challenges are made available.
    • Investigation Report 1 is also accessible on WebCMS. Access it from here .

    Have a great week ahead, and please let us know if you have any questions using Discourse .

    Best, Arash.

  • Preparing for Week 2

    Posted by Andrew Wong 🐻 Thursday 18 September 2025, 10:24:20 PM.

    Hi everyone, hope your first week has been going well!

    Please read this post on Discourse for instructions on how to prepare for your Week 2 tutorial

  • Difference between 6445 and 6845

    Posted by Arash Shaghaghi 🎓 Thursday 18 September 2025, 02:48:14 PM.

    Dear All,

    We have been getting questions about the difference between COMP6445 and COMP6845. Lachlan (one of the course admins) has drafted the post below to answer this:

    📫 https://discourse01.cse.unsw.edu.au/25T3/COMP6445/t/difference-between-6445-and-6845/33?replies_to_post_number=3

    Best, Arash

  • Wed Online Lab Recording and Extended Lecture Week 1 Recording

    Posted by Arash Shaghaghi 🎓 Wednesday 17 September 2025, 11:44:35 PM.

    Dear All,

    Please note that the recording of today's online lab (Wed, 19:00) by Jackson Terill is now uploaded and accessible to you from the Labs page: https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP6445/25T3/resources/115926

    As mentioned in the lecture, Wes has also recorded the extended lecture for 6845, and it is accessible from the Lectures page: https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP6445/25T3/resources/114687

    Best, Arash.

  • Extension to Week 1 challenges

    Posted by Andrew Wong 🐻 Wednesday 17 September 2025, 10:52:12 PM.

    Hi all!

    Week 1 challenges have been extended by a week, now due Sunday 28th September 11:55pm .
    Hopefully this will give you more time to settle into the course, amongst other courses you might be taking this trimester

  • Where to find lecture recordings?

    Posted by Arash Shaghaghi 🎓 Wednesday 17 September 2025, 08:22:15 AM, last modified Wednesday 17 September 2025, 08:23:07 AM.

    Dear All,

    We will be adding the lecture recordings to this page: https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP6445/25T3/resources/114687 [Lectures page on WebCMS]

    You should now be able to see the recording of last night's lecture.

    Best, Arash.

  • Welcome to Digital Forensics!

    Posted by Arash Shaghaghi 🎓 Monday 15 September 2025, 06:52:29 PM.

    Hi everyone! Welcome to Digital Forensics 🫆

    Hope everyone is well rested after the Term 2 break, and looking forward to another super interesting term. We are happy to announce a number of redeveloped areas of the course based on previous years’ feedback.

    🎓 Learning Management Systems

    We are going to be using three online systems for COMP6[84]45 . These are (1) WebCMS, (2) Discourse, and (3) Moodle.

    WebCMS

    Discourse

    Moodle

    • Moodle is where you will submit your reports.

    📆 Lecture and Lab Schedule :

    Please refer to the timetable page on WebCMS: https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP6445/25T3/timetable

    We have also detailed the course schedule in the Course Outline.

    👩🏫 Lectures:

    • Week 1 lecture is in-person.
    • Weeks 2–5, we do not use the lecture room. Professional material is released as recorded each Monday. The technical lecture is delivered online over Zoom.
    • Week 6 has no lecture.
    • In Week 7 , we do not use the lecture room. Professional material is released as recorded each Monday. The technical lecture is delivered online over Zoom.
    • Weeks 8 and 9 , we have online lectures, including guest lectures.
    • In Week 10 , we will go back to the lecture room and run an exciting mock trial.

    Zoom link for online lectures is available from here: https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP6445/25T3/resources/114687

    🔬 Labs:

    For Labs, check your lab location and time at https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP6445/25T3/timetable .

    Labs start from this week (tomorrow). Please check announcements and email before attending for any last-minute updates.

    We have an amazing teaching team who are here to support you in any way possible and make the process of learning this course highly rewarding and engaging, so feel free to reach out to them if you have any concerns or issues.

    For any questions related to the course, please reach out to the class account cs6445@cse.unsw.edu.au – where the teaching team will also be able to help out with any queries you may have. You can find more information on this page: https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP6445/25T3/resources/115866


    Looking forward to seeing everyone at tomorrow's lecture.

    Dr Arash Shaghaghi (Course Convenor)

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