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A study on an investigation procedure of digital forensics for VMware Workstation's virtual machine and a method for a corrupted image recovery (VMware Workstation 가상 머신 이미지에 대한 디지털 포렌식 조사 절차 및 손상된 이미지 복구 방안)

  • Lim, Sung-Su;Yoo, Byeong-Yeong;Park, Jung-Heum;Byun, Keun-Duck;Lee, Sang-Jin
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.61-70
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    • 2011
  • Virtualization is a technology that uses a logical environment to overcome physical limitations in hardware. As a part of cost savings and green IT policies, there is a tendency in which recent businesses increase the adoption of such virtualization. In particular, regarding the virtualization in desktop, it is one of the most widely used technology at the present time. Because it is able to efficiently use various types of operating systems in a physical computer. A virtual machine image that is a key component of virtualization is difficult to investigate. because the structure of virtual machine image is different from hard disk image. Therefore, we need researches about appropriate investigation procedure and method based on technical understanding of a virtual machine. In this research, we suggest a procedure of investigation on a virtual machine image and a method for a corrupted image of the VMware Workstation that has the largest number of users.

A Novel Perceptual Hashing for Color Images Using a Full Quaternion Representation

  • Xing, Xiaomei;Zhu, Yuesheng;Mo, Zhiwei;Sun, Ziqiang;Liu, Zhen
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.9 no.12
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    • pp.5058-5072
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    • 2015
  • Quaternions have been commonly employed in color image processing, but when the existing pure quaternion representation for color images is used in perceptual hashing, it would degrade the robustness performance since it is sensitive to image manipulations. To improve the robustness in color image perceptual hashing, in this paper a full quaternion representation for color images is proposed by introducing the local image luminance variances. Based on this new representation, a novel Full Quaternion Discrete Cosine Transform (FQDCT)-based hashing is proposed, in which the Quaternion Discrete Cosine Transform (QDCT) is applied to the pseudo-randomly selected regions of the novel full quaternion image to construct two feature matrices. A new hash value in binary is generated from these two matrices. Our experimental results have validated the robustness improvement brought by the proposed full quaternion representation and demonstrated that better performance can be achieved in the proposed FQDCT-based hashing than that in other notable quaternion-based hashing schemes in terms of robustness and discriminability.

Software Security Testing using Block-based File Fault Injection (블록 기반 파일 결함 주입 기법을 이용한 소프트웨어 보안 테스팅)

  • Choi, Young-Han;Kim, Hyoung-Chun;Hong, Soon-Jwa
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.3-10
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    • 2007
  • In this paper, we proposed the methodology for security testing using block-based file fault injection. When fault is inserted into software, we consider the format of file in order to efficiently reduce the error that is caused by mismatch of format of file. The Vulnerability the methodology focuses on is related to memory processing, such as buffer overflow, null pointer reference and so on. We implemented the automatic tool to apply the methodology to image file format and named the tool ImageDigger. We executed fault-injection focused on WMF and EMF file format using ImageDigger, and found 10 DOS(Denial of Service) in Windows Platform. This methodology can apply to block-based file format such as MS Office file.

Secure sharing method for a secret binary image and its reconstruction system

  • Lee, Sang-Su;Han, Jong-Wook
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.1240-1243
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, an encryption method to share a secret binary image is proposed. It divides the image to be encrypted into an arbitrary number of images and encrypts them using XOR process with different binary random images which was prepared by the means of the XOR process, too. Each encrypted slice image can be distributed to the authenticated ones. However, we transfer the encrypted images to the binary phase masks to strengthen the security power, that means phase masks can not be copied with general light-intensity sensitive tools such as CCDs or cameras. For decryption, we used the Mach-Zehnder interferometer in which linearly polarized two light beams in orthogonal direction, respectively. The experimental result proved the efficiency of the proposed method.

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A Survey on Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Steganography and Steganalysis

  • Hussain, Israr;Zeng, Jishen;Qin, Xinhong;Tan, Shunquan
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.1228-1248
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    • 2020
  • Steganalysis & steganography have witnessed immense progress over the past few years by the advancement of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN). In this paper, we analyzed current research states from the latest image steganography and steganalysis frameworks based on deep learning. Our objective is to provide for future researchers the work being done on deep learning-based image steganography & steganalysis and highlights the strengths and weakness of existing up-to-date techniques. The result of this study opens new approaches for upcoming research and may serve as source of hypothesis for further significant research on deep learning-based image steganography and steganalysis. Finally, technical challenges of current methods and several promising directions on deep learning steganography and steganalysis are suggested to illustrate how these challenges can be transferred into prolific future research avenues.

Design and Implementation of Image Communication System Based on Power Line Communication (전력선통신 기반 영상 송수신시스템 설계 및 구현)

  • Chang, Rak-Ju;Lee, Soon-Yi;Kang, Suk-Won
    • Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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    • 2010.05a
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    • pp.31-33
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    • 2010
  • The image communication system based on power line communication(PLC) that manages the status of workers in deteriorated. work environments such as high temperature and pressures as realtime is designed and implemented in this paper. The major design considerations for system design are such that the adaptation of simple architecture, simplicity of installation and movement, tolerances about high temperature and pressures, transmission of high quality image under various noise environments.

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Image Security and Personal Identification using CGH and Phase Mask (CGH와 위상 마스크를 이용한 영상 보안 및 개인 인증)

  • 김종윤;박세준;김종찬;김철수;조웅호;김수중
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 1999.06a
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    • pp.958-961
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    • 1999
  • A new image encoding and identification scheme is proposed for security verification by using CGH(computer generated hologram), random phase mask, and correlation technique. The encrypted image, which is attached to the security product, is made by multiplying QPH(quadratic phase hologram) using SA(simulated annealing) algorithm with a random phase function. The random phase function plays a role of key when the encrypted image is decrypted. The encrypted image could be optically recovered by 2-f system and automatically verified for personal identification. Simulation results show the proposed method cand be used for the reconstruction and the recognition of the encrypted. Image.

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A Multi-Stage Approach to Secure Digital Image Search over Public Cloud using Speeded-Up Robust Features (SURF) Algorithm

  • AL-Omari, Ahmad H.;Otair, Mohammed A.;Alzwahreh, Bayan N.
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.21 no.12
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    • pp.65-74
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    • 2021
  • Digital image processing and retrieving have increasingly become very popular on the Internet and getting more attention from various multimedia fields. That results in additional privacy requirements placed on efficient image matching techniques in various applications. Hence, several searching methods have been developed when confidential images are used in image matching between pairs of security agencies, most of these search methods either limited by its cost or precision. This study proposes a secure and efficient method that preserves image privacy and confidentially between two communicating parties. To retrieve an image, feature vector is extracted from the given query image, and then the similarities with the stored database images features vector are calculated to retrieve the matched images based on an indexing scheme and matching strategy. We used a secure content-based image retrieval features detector algorithm called Speeded-Up Robust Features (SURF) algorithm over public cloud to extract the features and the Honey Encryption algorithm. The purpose of using the encrypted images database is to provide an accurate searching through encrypted documents without needing decryption. Progress in this area helps protect the privacy of sensitive data stored on the cloud. The experimental results (conducted on a well-known image-set) show that the performance of the proposed methodology achieved a noticeable enhancement level in terms of precision, recall, F-Measure, and execution time.

Simply Separation of Head and Face Region and Extraction of Facial Features for Image Security (영상보안을 위한 머리와 얼굴의 간단한 영역 분리 및 얼굴 특징 추출)

  • Jeon, Young-Cheol;Lee, Keon-Ik;Kim, Kang
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.125-133
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    • 2008
  • As society develops, the importance of safety for individuals and facilities in public places is getting higher. Not only the areas such as the existing parking lot, bank and factory which require security or crime prevention but also individual houses as well as general institutions have the trend to increase investment in guard and security. This study suggests face feature extract and the method to simply divide face region and head region that are import for face recognition by using color transform. First of all, it is to divide face region by using color transform of Y image of YIQ image and head image after dividing head region with K image among CMYK image about input image. Then, it is to extract features of face by using labeling after Log calculation to head image. The clearly divided head and face region can easily classify the shape of head and face and simply find features. When the algorism of the suggested method is utilized, it is expected that security related facilities that require importance can use it effectively to guard or recognize people.

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A Study of 4G Network for Security System

  • Kim, Suk-jin;Lee, Hyangran;Lee, Malrey
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.77-86
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    • 2015
  • In this paper there is an overview of some standards and security models which are implemented in such an IP-based and heterogeneous networks and we also present some security models in an open environment and finally we obtain that as a result of the nature of 4G networks there are still more security holes and open issues for expert to notice. Our survey shows that a number of new security threats to cause unexpected service interruption and disclosure of information will be possible in 4G due mainly to the fact that 4G is an IP-based, heterogeneous network. Other than that, it tells about the security issues and vulnerabilities present in the above 4G standards are discussed. Finally, we point to potential areas for future vulnerabilities and evaluate areas in 4G security which warrant attention and future work by the research and advanced technology industry.