• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.371-378
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• 2004

As an agent is applied into various fields, it is suggested as the paradigm of new application technology in the area of computer communication. However, the mobile agent brines the problem of security on an agent due to mobility. This study proposals the mobile agent protection protocol framework for more effective protection and safety. The designed Framework of protocol uses the public ky, the private key and the digital signature in PKI environment based on JAVA. This is the mechanism accomplishing safely the work of an agent by tracking the pattern of execution and the mobility plan through the VS(verification server). This also secures the suity and the flawlessness of an agent through the VS guaranteeing safety from malicious attacks.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.56-78
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• 2018

Security issue in mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a promising research. In 2011, we had accomplished a survey of black hole attacks in MANETs. However network technology is changing with each passing day, a vast number of novel schemes and papers have been proposed and published in recent years. In this paper, we survey the literature on malicious attacks in MANETs published during past 5 years, especially the black hole attack. Black hole attacks are classified into non-cooperative and collaborative black hole attacks. Except black hole attacks, other attacks in MANET are also studied, e.g., wormhole and flooding attacks. In addition, we conceive the open issues and future trends of black hole detection and prevention in MANETs based on the survey results of this paper. We summarize these detection schemes with three systematic comparison tables of non-cooperative black hole, collaborative black hole and other attacks, respectively, for a comprehensive survey of attacks in MANETs.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.1043-1063
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• 2019

With delegating proxy to process data before outsourcing, data owners in restricted access could enjoy flexible and powerful cloud storage service for productivity, but still confront with data integrity breach. Identity-based data auditing as a critical technology, could address this security concern efficiently and eliminate complicated owners' public key certificates management issue. Recently, Yu et al. proposed an Identity-Based Public Auditing for Dynamic Outsourced Data with Proxy Processing (https://doi.org/10.3837/tiis.2017.10.019). It aims to offer identity-based, privacy-preserving and batch auditing for multiple owners' data on different clouds, while allowing proxy processing. In this article, we first demonstrate this scheme is insecure in the sense that malicious cloud could pass integrity auditing without original data. Additionally, clouds and owners are able to recover proxy's private key and thus impersonate it to forge tags for any data. Secondly, we propose an improved scheme with provable security in the random oracle model, to achieve desirable secure identity based privacy-preserving batch public auditing with proxy processing. Thirdly, based on theoretical analysis and performance simulation, our scheme shows better efficiency over existing identity-based auditing scheme with proxy processing on single owner and single cloud effort, which will benefit secure big data storage if extrapolating in real application.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2014.10a
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• pp.947-950
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• 2014

The recent APT attacks including cyber terror are caused by a high level of malicious codes and hacking techniques. This implies that essentially, advanced security management is required, from the perspective of 5A. The changes of IT environment are represented by Mobile, Cloud and BYOD. In this situation, the security model needs to be changed, too into the Airport model which emphasizes prevention, and connection, security and integration of functions from the existing Castle model. This study suggested an application method of the risk-based Airport model to the cyber security environment.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.453-462
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• 2022

Blockchain technology provides a decentralized and peer-to-peer network, which has the advantages of transparency and immutability. In this paper, a novel secure authentication scheme applying digital holography to blockchain technology is proposed to protect privacy information in network nodes. The transactional information of the node is chained permanently and immutably in the blockchain to ensure network security. By designing a novel two-dimensional (2D) array data structure of the block, a proof of work (PoW) in the blockchain is executed through digital holography technology to verify true authentication and legal block linkage. A hash generated from the proposed algorithm reveals a random number of 2D array data. The real identity of each node in the network cannot be forged by a hacker's tampering because the privacy information of the node is encrypted using digital holography and stored in the blockchain. The reliability and feasibility of the proposed scheme are analyzed with the help of the research results, which evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Forgery by a malicious node is impossible with the proposed method by rejecting a tampered transaction. The principal application is a secure anonymity system guaranteeing privacy information protection for handling of large information.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.17 no.8
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• pp.2101-2123
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• 2023

Recent studies have shown that the neural network-based binary code similarity detection technology performs well in vulnerability mining, plagiarism detection, and malicious code analysis. However, existing cross-architecture methods still suffer from insufficient feature characterization and low discrimination accuracy. To address these issues, this paper proposes a cross-architecture binary function similarity detection method based on composite feature model (SDCFM). Firstly, the binary function is converted into vector representation according to the proposed composite feature model, which is composed of instruction statistical features, control flow graph structural features, and application program interface calling behavioral features. Then, the composite features are embedded by the proposed hierarchical embedding network based on a graph neural network. In which, the block-level features and the function-level features are processed separately and finally fused into the embedding. In addition, to make the trained model more accurate and stable, our method utilizes the embeddings of predecessor nodes to modify the node embedding in the iterative updating process of the graph neural network. To assess the effectiveness of composite feature model, we contrast SDCFM with the state of art method on benchmark datasets. The experimental results show that SDCFM has good performance both on the area under the curve in the binary function similarity detection task and the vulnerable candidate function ranking in vulnerability search task.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.169-176
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• 2023

The vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) is currently an important approach to improve personal safety and driving comfort. ANEL is a MAC-based authentication scheme that offers all the advantages of MAC-based authentication schemes and overcomes all their limitations at the same time. In addition, the given scheme, ANEL, can achieve the security objectives such as authentication, privacy preservation, non-repudiation, etc. In addition, our scheme provides effective bio-password login, system key update, bio-password update, and other security services. Additionally, in the proposed scheme, the Trusted Authority (TA) can disclose the source driver and vehicle of each malicious message. The heavy traffic congestion increases the number of messages transmitted, some of which need to be secretly transmitted between vehicles. Therefore, ANEL requires lightweight mechanisms to overcome security challenges. To ensure security in our ANEL scheme we can use cryptographic techniques such as elliptic curve technique, session key technique, shared key technique and message authentication code technique. This article proposes a new efficient and light authentication scheme (ANEL) which consists in the protection of texts transmitted between vehicles in order not to allow a third party to know the context of the information. A detail of the mapping from text passing to elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) to the inverse mapping operation is covered in detail. Finally, an example of application of the proposed steps with an illustration

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.24 no.7
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• pp.101-107
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• 2024

Cloud computing is a widely used technology that has changed the way people and organizations store and access information. This technology is quite versatile, which is why extensive amounts of data can be stored in the cloud. Furthermore, businesses can access various services over the cloud without having to install applications. However, the cloud computing services are provided over a public domain, which means that both trusted and non-trusted users can access the services. Though there are several advantages of cloud computing services, especially to business owners, various challenges are also posed in terms of the privacy and security of information and online services. A kind of threat that is widely faced in the cloud environment is the on/off attack. In this kind of attack, a few entities exhibit proper behavior for a given time period to develop a highly a positive reputation and gather trust, after which they exhibit deception. A viable solution is provided by the given trust model for preventing the attacks. This method works by providing effective security to the cloud services by identifying malicious and inappropriate behaviors through the application of trust algorithms that can identify on-off attacks.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.59-66
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• 2018

Android Things is an Android-based platform running in Google's IoT environment. Android smartphones require permissions from application users to use certain features, but in the case of Android Things, there is no display to send request notifications to users. Therefore Does not make a request to use the permissions and automatically accepts the permissions from the system. If the privilege is used indiscriminately, malicious behavior such as system failure or leakage of personal information can be performed by a function which is not related to the function originally. Therefore, By monitoring the privileges that a device uses in an Android-based IoT system, users can proactively respond to security threats that can arise through unauthorized use of the IoT system. This paper proposes a system that manages the rights currently being used by IoT devices in the Android Things based IoT environment, so that Android-based IoT devices can cope with irrelevant use of rights.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.47-54
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• 2014

Anti-debugging is one of the techniques implemented within the computer code to hinder attempts at reverse engineering so that attackers or analyzers will not be able to use debuggers to analyze the program. The technique has been applied to various programs and is still commonly used in order to prevent malware or malicious code attacks or to protect the programs from being analyzed. In this paper, we will suggest an automatic detection scheme for anti-debugging routines. With respect to the automatic detection, debuggers and a simulator were used by which trace information on the Application Program Interface(API) as well as executive instructions were extracted. Subsequently, the extracted instructions were examined and compared so as to detect points automatically where suspicious activity was captured as anti-debugging routines. Based on experiments to detect anti-debugging routines using such methods, 21 out of 25 anti-debugging techniques introduced in this paper appear to be able to detect anti-debugging routines properly. The technique in the paper is therefore not dependent upon a certain anti-debugging method. As such, the detection technique is expected to also be available for anti-debugging techniques that will be developed or discovered in the future.