News

• January 22, 2020: Published my first Udemy course, which is based on the SEED labs and my book.
• June 6, 2019: We have successfully conducted two SEED workshops, attended by 90 participants. The followings are the news coverage of the workshop:
  • WRVO (a NPR member station): Workshop at Syracuse University helps prepare educators against cyberattacks
  • ABC (local station): Syracuse University professor helping train next generation in cyber security
• May 8, 2018: We have officially released the Ubuntu16.04 VM. All SEED labs have been ported to this new VM.
• May 1, 2018: We have published several new labs:
  • Meltdown Attack Lab
    
  • Spectre Attack Lab
    
  • MD5 Collision Attack Lab
    
  • RSA Lab
    
• October 21, 2017: The Dirty COW attack lab is now available.
• October 12, 2017: My book based on the SEED labs are now published via CreateSpace (self-publishing). It can be ordered from Amazon. Details of this book can be found here.
• June 13, 2017: Due to the SEED project, Kevin Du was awarded the "2017 Academic Leadership" award from The 21st Colloquium for Information System Security Education.
• June 1-3, 8-10, 2015: We held two 3-day training workshops at Syracuse University. Read more.
• Mar 4, 2015: We held a 3-hour training workshop at SIGCSE 2015.
• October 30, 2014: We have developed a new lab to give students a first-hand experience on the recently discovered Shellshock vulnerability.
• January 15, 2014: After 6 months of testing, we now officially release a new VM image (SEEDUbuntu12.04) for SEED labs. This image replaces the previous SEEDUbuntu11.04 image. You can get the new VM from the Lab Setup page.
• January 2, 2014: The SEED Labs are being adopted by many schools worldwode. See this map for details.
• April 12, 2011: Several SEED labs are linked to the web site of the textbook, Introduction to Computer Security by Michael T. Goodrich and Roberto Tamassia (follow the "Projects" link).
• September 21, 2010: The SEED project is in a news published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
• September 2010: The SEED project is highlighted by TUES/CCLI in a report titled New Challenges, New Strategies: Building Excellence in Undergraduate STEM Education (Page 16). The report, sent to Congress recently, "highlights 17 projects that represent cutting-edge creativity in undergraduate STEM classes nationwide".