• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.33-41
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• 2015

A safe Linux system for security enhancement should have an audit ability that prohibits an illegal access and alternation of data as well as trace ability of illegal activities. In addition, construction of the log management and monitoring system is a necessity to clearly categorize the responsibility of the system manager or administrator and the users' activities. In this paper, the Linux system's Security Log is analyzed to utilize it on prohibition and detection of an illegal protrusion converting the analyzed security log into a database. The proposed analysis allows a safe management of the security log. This system will contribute to the enhancement of the system reliability by allowing quick response to the system malfunctions.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.49-57
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• 2017

With the prevalence of mobile devices, many organizations introduce MDM BYOD and try to increase the level of security with them. However, device control of mobile devices in application level cannot be a solution against the fundamental problems. In this paper, we propose a more flexible and more secure method to control the hardware devices using Linux Security Module in the kernel level with the mandatory access control.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.311-321
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• 2003

A current firewall or IDS (intrusion detection system) of the network level suffers from many vulnerabilities in internal computing servers. For a secure Linux implementation using system call hooking, this paper defines two requirements such as the multi-level security function of TCSEC B1 and a prevention of hacking attacks. This paper evaluates the secure Linux implemented in terms of the mandatory access control, anti-hacking and performance overhead, and thus shows the security, stability and availability of the multi-level secure Linux. At the kernel level this system protects various hacking attacks such as using Setuid programs, inserting back-door and via-attacks. The performance degradation is an average 1.18% less than other secure OS product.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.72-78
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• 2016

MD-5 has been the hash algorithm to encrypt the user's password on Linux from the beginning. Recently the more reliable password management was demanded and SHA-512 algorithm became the hash algorithm on the recent Enterprise Linux which is more reliable than MD-5. This paper researching the characteristics of the hashing and encryption algorithms and find out about Linux User information management. Based on this analysis, and analysis of the security of the hashing algorithm is applied to the user password. In addition, analyzes the cases used hash algorithm applied to the validation of Open Source Software file, such as Apache, PHP, MySQL. Finally, by analyzing the security tool John The Ripper this paper suggests the enhanced security with the administrative management of passwords.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.91-101
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• 2005

Although the studies on the analysis and classification of source-level vulnerabilities in operating systems are not direct and positive solutions to the exploits with which the host systems are attacked, It is important in that those studies can give elementary technologies in the development of security mechanisms. But, whereas Linux systems are widely used in Internet and intra-net environments recently, the information on the basic and fundamental vulnerabilities inherent in Linux systems has not been studied enough. In this paper, we propose characteristic classification and correlational analyses on the source-level vulnerabilities in Linux kernel that are opened to the public and listed in the SecurityFocus site for 6 years from 1999 to 2004. This study may contribute to expect the types of attacks, analyze the characteristics of the attacks abusing vulnerabilities, and verify the modules of the kernel that have critical vulnerabilities.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.142-144
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• 2005

최근 웹(World Wide Web)은 전자상거래, e-commerce의 눈부신 성장과 더불어 그 이용률이 급격히 증가하였고, 이와 더불어 웹 취약점을 이용한 해킹사례도 증가하고 있다. 이 해킹 사례의 대부분은 웹 어플리케이션의 취약점을 이용한 것이다. 기존의 네트워크 침입탐지 시스템에서는 침입을 탐지하기위해 시그너쳐 방법이 주로 사용되었다. 시그너쳐 방식은 시그너쳐를 기반으로 우수한 탐지율을 보인다. 그러나 웹 어플리케이션 공격은 다양한 원인과, 변형된 특성들을 가지고 있기 때문에 기존의 시그너쳐 기반의 방법으로는 특정한 패턴을 찾아내기가 곤란하다. 본 논문에서는 이를 보완할 수 있는 방법으로 프로파일 기반의 탐지방법과 한계, 그리고 이 한계를 보완할 수 있는 대책을 제시한다.

• Journal of Industrial Technology
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• v.22 no.B
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• pp.141-146
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• 2002

It becomes common to use computers to control electronic devices and security facilities in newly constructed buildings and house. There are many home application devices in the market which can be controlled by computers. But they are expensive and managed by specialized companies. This paper is focused on personal computers which are available in most homes and can be used to control home electronic appliances and home security facilities. We implemented a home automation server based on Linux. The standard parallel port of personal computer is used to connect sensors and actuators. Therefore, the cost of the server is very low. Moreover, the server is connected to Internet and anywhere we can control and monitor the home security facilities and home automation systems.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.163-165
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• 2007

Recently, the security requirements of the embedded system which were not considered when the embedded system is independently deployed are being increased because the embedded system is connected to an internet. The connection to the internet of embedded system is the meaning that it is exposed to the various kinds of external attack and can be a victim to these attacks in anytime. Particularly, it is trend that the user-related information is stored into the personal terminals and/or electrical appliances such as PDA, home gateway for home network, settop boxes and so on. So it is needed the security mechanism which protects the user information from the malicious accesses. Accordingly, the coverage of the system security is being expanded from the general server to the embedded system. And it is not enough that the embedded system supports only its inherent functions and it becomes the essential element to provide the security function to the embedded system. This paper applies the RBAC(role-based access control) function to the embedded linux OS and tries to strengthen the security of the embedded linux OS. RBAC is implemented as a loadable kernel module with LSM(Linux Security Module) security framework for user's flexibility.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.146-155
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• 2004

Currently most of commercial operating systems contain a high-level audit feature to increase their own security level. Linux does not fall behind the other commercial operating systems in performance and stability, but Linux does not have a good audit feature. Linux is required to support a higher security feature than C2 level of the TCSEC in order to be used as a server operating system, which requires the kernel-level audit feature that provides the system call auditing feature and audit event. In this paper, we present LxBSM, which is a kernel module to provide the kernel-level audit features. The audit record format of LxBSM is compatible with that of Sunshield BSM. The LxBSM is implemented as a loadable kernel module, so it has the enhanced usability. It provides the rich audit records including the user-level audit events such as login/logout. It supports both the pipe and file interface for increasing the connectivity between LxBSM and intrusion detection systems (IDS). The performance of LxBSM is compared and evaluated with that of Linux kernel without the audit features. The response time was increased when the system calls were called to create the audit data, such as fork, execve, open, and close. However any other performance degradation was not observed.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.11b
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• pp.77-80
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• 2003

Complying with highly demand of information through internet. the utility of computer and network is rapidly provided with to schools. This situation brings about many problems. For example, the stolen information through false identification(Hacking) is the most greatest concern. In this paper it tells that the efficient way of preservating computer use is by using operating system of Open Source, which is Linux system. Further more, it shows the system which was organized by IP-Tabling (offered service-Packet Filtering method from the Linux system) functions well as a security system.