This repo contains all report of practical exercises in the course Cyber Security 2 at Tampere University

All practical exercises in this course are based on SEED labs. Please find more information about those labs here: https://seedsecuritylabs.org/Labs_20.04/

Follow the link here: https://www.latex-project.org/get/

NOTE: If you are using Window, I would recommend to install Ubuntu (or other distributions you like) following this link: https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/install-ubuntu-on-wsl2-on-windows-11-with-gui-support#2-install-wsl

I assume all the commands below would be run in the Unix environment.

Ensure that I installed below packages throught TeX distributions (TeX Live if you use Linux, MiKTeX if you use Windows, MacTeX if you use MacOS).

graphicx  
amsmath  
parskip  
hyperref  
datetime2  
biblatex

\section{title_here}

\subsection{title_here}

\textbf{text_here}

\emph{text_here}

Ensure that the image file was stored in figures folder.

\begin{picture}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=\textwidth,height=\textheight,keepaspectratio]{file_name}
    \caption{title_of_figure}\label{fig:variable_name}
\end{picture}

NOTE: the variable_name is used to refer the correspoding figure in other places with the command \autoref{fig:variable_name}.

The first step is to add bibliography into the references.bib file.

Depends on the type of source you found e.g online pages, academic articles, or books we have different types of entry needed to consider:

• Online websites: @misc
• Academic article: @article
• Book: @book

For example

@article{<variable_name>,
    author = {Ley, Michael},
    title = {DBLP: Some Lessons Learned},
    year = {2009},
    issue_date = {August 2009},
    publisher = {VLDB Endowment},
    volume = {2},
    number = {2},
    issn = {2150-8097},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1687553.1687577},
    doi = {10.14778/1687553.1687577},
    journal = {Proc. VLDB Endow.},
    month = {aug},
    pages = {1493–1500},
    numpages = {8}
    }

The above entry will be rendered as

Michael Ley. 2009. DBLP: some lessons learned. Proc. VLDB Endow. 2, 2 (August 2009), 1493–1500. https://doi.org/10.14778/1687553.1687577

NOTE: you can freely assign the variable_name for later citing by the command \cite{variable_name}. However, I think we should agree that the format of this naming convention as type:short_name e.g article:dblp_lesson_learned.

I think most of sources we will use is online articles. So the simple format for online sources is

@misc{online:short_name,
    title = {title_here},
    author = {author_here},
    url = {url_here},
    urldate = {yyyy-mm-dd} % the date we accessed, not the publishing date
}

If you find a academic paper needs to be cited, it will be easy to find its BibTeX citation format through ACM library. At the page of the article, choosing export citation and then choose BibTeX.

Ensure that the entry with variable_name was added in references.bib.

\cite{variable_name}.

Newline in LaTeX is \\.

For example

The first line.\\
The second line.

will be rendered as

The first line.
The second line.

If you type

% LaTeX code here
The first line.
The second line

it will be rendered as

The first line.The second line.

NOTE: please remember to wrap your text around 80 characters while editting the report for better visual.

If you want to use "" or " in LaTeX, use the backtick symbol ``` for opening quote in LaTeX.

For example

``Hello world'' % it will be rendered as "Hello World"
`Hello world' % it will be rendered as 'Hello World'

The idea here is that we organize each task in a separate TeX file stored in the folder tex.

In order to insert those TeX files, we use the command

\include{file_path}
% in this case the path will be './tex/file_name'

For example

\include{./tex/task1.tex}

Run the following command to start a new folder for the practical exercise (if the folder for the corresponding exercise does not exist)

source starter.sh <folder_name> <number_of_tasks>
# <number_of_tasks> here is the total number of tasks we will
# do in the exercise.

For example,

source starter.sh XSS 7

NOTE: after running the above script, the current directory will be moved to the newly created folder.

git pull --rebase
# edit, edit, edit
make
# ensure that no error is raised.
git add .
git commit -m <message>
# the message should start with topic title in []
# for example: if you are working on the task 5 of the XSS exercise
# you can create a message as "[XSS][task_5] first draft"
# the idea here is that it makes easier for us to know what is the target of
# a specific commit by only looking at the very first letters.
git pull --rebase
git push origin master