Report: Penetration testing
Write a 5- to 10-page report on a contemporary issue of penetration testing.
Refer to the latest conference articles published by the ACM conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS) for this current year. The “program” or “accepted papers” links on the main conference web site should have a list of the titles for the published papers. They should be about 40 to 50 in number.
Go through the list of the papers and identify the ones (3 to 5) that talk about web security or mobile security. Usually, you would be able to do a simple Google search to access the full articles, although this is not always possible with all of the conference articles.
Review the articles that describe ways to exploit the web or mobile systems, and prepare a survey paper describing the concepts/facts/techniques explained in those papers. Make sure you word everything in your own words, and do not copy anything verbatim (i.e., copy+paste).
If you must quote some statements or reproduce figures in your report, make sure to put the statements inside quotes, (“ “) and also cite the articles whose full reference information you have included in your bibliography.
