• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.183-189
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• 2008

E-mail's role has been increased due to its merit which is sending demanded information in real-time anywhere, anytime. However, Today's E-mail security threats have being changed intelligently to attack against the specific agency. The threat is a limit to respond. Therefore precise definition and development of security technology is needed to analyze changing environment and technologies of e-mail so that remove fundamental security threat. we proposed Next Generation E-mail System Security Structure and the Next Generation fusion System using authentication As a result, in this study, we development of Next Generation E-mail System Security Structure. This system can protect E-mail user from social engineering hacking technique, spam, virus, malicious code and fabrication.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.3-13
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• 2006

Internet mail has become a common communication method to send and receive an amount of data due to the tremendous high speed Internet service increment. But in other respect, the risk and damage of Junk mail is growing rapidly and nowadays Junk mail delivery problem is becoming more serious, because this is used for an attack or propagation scheme of malicious code. It's a most dangerous dominant cause for computer system accident. This paper shows the Junk mail characteristic which is based on the analysis of mail log in reality and then shows the implementation of the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) check and Personalized classification system and evaluates its performance.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.847-857
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• 2019

Recently, various cyber threats such as Ransomware and APT attack are increasing by e-mail. The characteristic of such an attack is that it is important to take administrative measures by improving personal perception of security because it bypasses technological measures such as past pattern-based detection The purpose of this study is to investigate the human factors of employees who are vulnerable to spam mail attacks through field experiments and to establish future improvement plans. As a result of sending 7times spam mails to employees of a company and analyzing training report, It was confirmed that factors such as the number of training and the recipient 's gender, age, and workplace were related to the reading rate. Based on the results of this analysis, we suggest ways to improve the training and to improve the ability of each organization to carry out effective simulation training and improve the ability to respond to spam mail by awareness improvement.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.10C no.6
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• pp.825-834
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose a new certified e-mail system which reduces user's computational overhead and distributes confidentiality of TTP(Trusted Third Partty). Based on the traditional cryptographic schemes and server-supported signiture for fairness and confidentiality of message, we intend to minimize to computation overhead of mobile device on public key algorithm. Therefore, our proposal becomes to be suitable for mail user sho uses mobile devices such as cellular phone and PDA. Moreover, the proposed system is fault-tolerant, secure against mobile adversary and conspiracy attack, since it is based on the threshold cryptography on server-side.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.21-28
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• 2015

Currently there are wide variety of web services and applications available for users. Such services restrict access to only authorized users, and therefore its users often need to go through the inconvenience of getting an authentication from each service every time. To resolve of such inconvenience, a third party application with OAuth(Open Authorization) protocol that can provide restricted access to different web services has appeared. OAuth protocol provides applicable and flexible services to its users, but is exposed to reply attack, phishing attack, impersonation attack. Therefore we propose method that after authentication Access Token can be issued by using the E-mail authentication. In proposed method, regular user authentication success rate is high when value is 5 minutes. However, in the case of the attacker, the probability which can be gotten certificated is not more than the user contrast 0.3% within 5 minutes.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.189-194
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• 2020

Most cyber breaches are caused by APT attacks using malware. Hackers use the email system as a medium to penetrate the target. It uses e-mail as a method to access internally, destroys databases using long-term collected vulnerabilities, and illegally acquires personal information through system operation and ransomware. As such, the e-mail system is the most friendly and convenient, but at the same time operates in a blind spot of security. As a result, personal information leakage accidents can cause great damage to the company and society as a whole. This study intends to suggest an effective methodology to securely manage the APT attack by strengthening the security configuration of the e-mail system operating in the enterprise.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.107-122
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• 2015

Many defensive mechanisms have been evolved as new attack methods are developed. However, APT attacks using e-mail are still hard to detect and prevent. Recently, many organizations in the government sector or private sector have been hacked by malicious e-mail based APT attacks. In this paper, first, we built hacking e-mail database based on the real e-mail data which were used in attacks on the Korean government organizations in recent years. Then, we extracted features from the hacking e-mails for profiling them. We design a case vector that can describe the specific characteristics of hacking e-mails well. Finally, based on case based reasoning, we made an algorithm for retrieving the most similar case from the hacking e-mail database when a new hacking e-mail is found. As a result, hacking e-mails have common characteristics in several features such as geo-location information, and these features can be used for classifying benign e-mails and malicious e-mails. Furthermore, this proposed case based reasoning algorithm can be useful for making a decision to analyze suspicious e-mails.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.414-417
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• 2011

2011년 현재 유무선 인터넷을 이용해 VoIP, e-mail 통신을 하며, 금융거래인 은행거래, 주식거래, 안전결제 서비스를 이용하고 있다. 하지만 유무선 인터넷에서 침해사고가 발생하여 VoIP, e-mail이나 은행거래, 주식거래, 안전결제에 취약점 가능성이 있다. 2011년 3월 개인정보보호법 국회통과로 금융거래에서 개인정보를 보호해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 WiBro 인터넷 금융거래에서 VoIP, e-mail이나 은행거래, 주식거래, 안전결제를 할 때, SecuiScan을 이용하여 취약점을 분석한다. 취약점을 분석한 결과, 발견된 취약점을 이용하여 실험실 환경에서 해킹공격을 실시한다. 해킹결과 분석과 침해사고 유형에 따른 보안성 강화를 위한 보안 대책을 제시한다. 본 논문의 연구는 WiBro 인터넷 금융거래 보안성 강화에 기여할 것이다.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.97-108
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• 2012

In this study, we analysis the distributing malware using email on the korean defense service and defense industry as the social engineering attack. E-mail attack distributes the document files with the malware. Using the malware, attacker get the Information of the targeted people and devices. we proposed expected new types of attacks by analysis and transformation. And, expect the new email attack agendas which will be tried.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.273-277
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• 2013

Phishing attacks have been implemented in smarter, more advanced ways with the passage of time. Hackers use intelligent phishing attacks to take over computers and to penetrate internal networks in major organizations. So, in this paper, a model for a prevention of phishing attack spread is conceptual designed in order to protect internal users and sensitive or important information from sophisticated phishing attacks. Internal users simultaneously utilize both external web and organizational mail services. And hackers can take the both side equally as a vector. Thus, packets in each service must be monitored and stored to recognize threatening elements from both sides. The model designed in this paper extends the mail server based security structure used in conventional studies for the protection of Internet mail services accessed by intranet users. This model can build a list of phishing sites as the system checks e-mails compared to that of the method that directly intercepts accesses to phishing sites using a proxy server, so it represents no standby time for request and response processes.