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A Proposed Framework for the Automated Authorization Testing of Mobile Applications

  • Alghamdi, Ahmed Mohammed;Almarhabi, Khalid
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.217-221
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    • 2021
  • Recent studies have indicated that mobile markets harbor applications (apps) that are either malicious or vulnerable, compromising millions of devices. Some studies indicate that 96% of companies' employees have used at least one malicious app. Some app stores do not employ security quality attributes regarding authorization, which is the function of specifying access rights to access control resources. However, well-defined access control policies can prevent mobile apps from being malicious. The problem is that those who oversee app market sites lack the mechanisms necessary to assess mobile app security. Because thousands of apps are constantly being added to or updated on mobile app market sites, these security testing mechanisms must be automated. This paper, therefore, introduces a new mechanism for testing mobile app security, using white-box testing in a way that is compatible with Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) working environments. This framework will benefit end-users, organizations that oversee app markets, and employers who implement the BYOD trend.

Effects of Mobile App Service Characteristics on User Satisfaction and Continuance Usage Intention (모바일 앱 서비스 특성이 사용자 만족과 지속적 사용의도에 영향을 미치는 요인)

  • Kim, Byung Gon;Kim, Ki Won;Seo, Hong Il
    • Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.99-120
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study is to provide information necessary for establishing a new strategy for customer service improvement by deriving factors affecting user satisfaction and continuous use intention of mobile app service user characteristics, system characteristics, and social characteristics. The results of this study are summarized as follows. First, reliability, innovation, familiarity, convenience, and self-efficacy among the characteristics of mobile app are analyzed as factors that have the greatest influence on user's perceived usefulness. Second, convenience, mobility, and visibility are some of the characteristics of mobile app service. Third, identity, security, and expectation agreement among mobile app service characteristics are analyzed as negative factors that do not affect users' perceived usefulness. Fourth, interactivity, familiarity, and self-efficacy among the characteristics of mobile app service were analyzed as positive factors that have the greatest effect on user's perceived ease of use. Fifth, reliability, mobility, visibility, and convenience among mobile app service characteristics are analyzed as factors that have some positive effects on perceived ease of use of app users. Sixth, identity, innovation, and security among the characteristics of mobile app service are negatively influenced by mobile app users' perceived ease of use. Seventh, the perceived usefulness of mobile app users is analyzed as a factor that has a very positive effect on user satisfaction. Eighth, the perceived ease of use of mobile app users is analyzed as a factor affecting perceived usefulness positively. Ninth, the perceived ease and expectation of mobile app users are positively influenced on user satisfaction. The tenth, the perceived usefulness of the mobile app users was analyzed as a factor having a very positive influence on the persistent intention to use. For the eleventh, the perceived ease of use of mobile app users was analyzed as a factor having a positive effect on the persistent intention to use. The twelfth, mobile app user satisfaction was analyzed as a factor having a very positive effect on the persistent intention to use.

Design and Implementation of App Control System for Improving the Security of the Mobile Application (모바일 애플리케이션의 보안성 향상을 위한 App 제어 시스템 설계 및 구현)

  • Lee, Yu-Jun;Jang, Young-Hwan;Park, Seok-Cheon
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.243-250
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    • 2016
  • Recently, with the rise of the mobile device, from mobile devices the user who owns the security, speed up the implementation of the guarantee management environment as businesses and individual equipment for the effcient management of the existing system, but the introduction of the MDM MDM App management features administrators to register the App until you can't prvent the security threat. Therefore, this paper addresses these issues in order to improve the security of your application for the control system. The proposed system is a function of the MDM authentication technology to design analysis, and system architecture to help prevent information disclosure within the design and implementation of Mobile-based application control system. Implementation of the control system to assess the security of the international common criteria security evaluation complete the test scenarios on the basis of the test items. An average of 40% of the test results to verify the results of this enhanced security.

A Guidelines for Establishing Mobile App Management System in Military Environment - focus on military App store and verification system - (국방환경에서 모바일 앱 관리체계 구축방안 제시 - 국방 앱스토어 및 검증시스템 중심으로 -)

  • Lee, Gab-Jin;Goh, Sung-Cheol
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.525-532
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    • 2013
  • Recently. smartphones have been popularized rapidly and now located deep in our daily life, providing a variety of services from banking, SNS (Social Network Service), and entertainment to smart-work mobile office through apps. Such smartphone apps can be easily downloaded from what is known as app store which, however, bears many security issues as software developers can just as easily upload to it. Military apps will be exposed to a myriad of security threats if distributed through internet-basis commercial app store. In order to mitigate such security concerns, this paper suggests a security guidelines for establishing a military-excusive app store and security verification system which prevent the security hazards that can occur during the process of development and distribution of military-use mobile apps.

A Proposal for "Security Verification Method for Implementation of Secure Android Mobile Application" (안전한 안드로이드 어플리케이션 개발을 위한 구현 단계별 보안성 검증 방안 제시)

  • Hur, Hwan Seok;Kang, Sung Hoon;Kim, Seung Joo
    • KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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    • v.2 no.10
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    • pp.445-460
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    • 2013
  • Mobile applications today are being offered as various services depending on the mobile device and mobile environment of users. This increase in mobile applications has shifted the spotlight to their vulnerability. As an effective method of security verification, this paper proposes "phase-wise security verification for the implementation of mobile applications". This method allows additional security verification by covering specific items across a wider range compared to existing methods. Based on the identified weaknesses, it detects the cause of vulnerability and monitors the related settings.

Security Threats in the Mobile Cloud Service Environment (모바일 클라우드 서비스 환경에서의 보안위협에 관한 연구)

  • Han, Jung-Soo
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.12 no.5
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    • pp.263-269
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    • 2014
  • Mobile Cloud Service will provide cloud services through mobile devices. Because storage space constraints and computing process performance limitations of mobile devices, this service will process in the cloud environment after moving works and data that have to process in mobile terminal. The obstacles of mobile cloud service activity will have concerned high about the reliability service, data security, and the confidentiality security. In particular, in convergence of mobile services and cloud services, each threats are expected to be generated complicatedly. In this paper, we define the type of mobile cloud services as well as security threats that can occur in mobile cloud. Also we suggest security countermeasures in mobile app. and enterprises countermeasures. We suggest verification of mobile applications for user information protection about security countermeasures in mobile app. Also we describe the cloud providers responsibility and user responsibility about enterprises countermeasures.

Security and Trust of Mobile Payment Apps : Focus on Personal Predisposition and Security Signal (모바일 결제 앱에서의 보안과 신뢰 : 개인의 성향과 보안 신호를 중심으로)

  • Kim, Min-Gyung;Choi, Boreum
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.194-204
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    • 2019
  • The mobile payment app market has been expanding recently. However, the usage rate of mobile payment apps is not meeting service providers' expectations due to concerns about security and privacy. This study investigated how personal predisposition and how the security signals of the payment app affect users' perceived privacy and security risks, and how these factors ultimately affect the trust of mobile payment apps. The results showed that privacy concerns increase the risk of perceived personal information leaks and reduce perceived mobile system security, while familiarity, perceived reputation, and assurance seal reduce the risk of perceived personal information leaks and increase perceived mobile system security. Finally, it revealed that the reduced risk of perceived personal information leaks and the increased security of mobile systems had a positive impact on the reliability of mobile payment apps.

Structural Relationships among Tourism Information, Payment Service, Satisfaction, and Intention to Reuse: Focused on the Ctrip APP in China (관광정보서비스, 결재서비스, 만족도, 재이용의도의 구조적 관계: 중국 시에청을 대상으로)

  • Lee, Yanling;Kim, Yeong-Gug
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.123-136
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of six factors (accuracy, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, security, instant accessibility, and ease of use) on re-use intention; and then to help to establish future marketing strategy. In order to achieve the study's objectives, this study conducted an online questionnaire on the Internet, Wenjuanxing. The total of 270 copies through APP-Wechat (Wicket), and 245 were used for analysis. For statistical processing, SPSS22.0 is used to analyze the influence relationship amongst factors for mobile tourism information service, a variety of analysis, such as factor analysis, reliability analysis, mass regression analysis, simple regression analysis were employed. The results of this study are summarized as follows. As a result of analyzing the factors affecting the satisfaction of consumers using chinese Ctrip mobile app, the perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use of mobile tourism information service attributes have a significant effect on user satisfaction. The accuracy of mobile information service were found to have no significant effect on satisfaction. The security, immediacy of access, and usability of the payment service of mobile APP were found to have a significant effect on satisfaction. And customer satisfaction has a significant effect on re-use intention.

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Security Verification Framework for e-GOV Mobile App (전자정부 모바일 앱 보안성 검증체계)

  • Bang, Ji-Ho;Ha, Rhan;Kang, Pil-Yong;Kim, Hong-Geun
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.37 no.2C
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    • pp.119-131
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    • 2012
  • Recently smart phones have been proliferating widely and quickly. Since the number of mobile apps that are being developed and deployed to domestic/international app stores is rising, more apps are being installed and deleted by users without any difficulty. The deployed apps are each attested through distinct verification framework of specific app stores. However, such verification frameworks are insufficient in checking security concerns. Unfortunately, the security verification framework is necessary since the incidents of leaking privacy and confidential information are being increased in lately. The aim of this paper is to provide the security verification framework that assures security and reliability of the e-government mobile apps. In order to verify proposed verification framework, a few apps were selected and inspected through proposed framework and these inspection results are included in this paper.

Introduction of a VOD Mobile App for Promoting VOD Service of a Domestic Digital Cable Broadcasting (국내 디지털케이블 방송사의 VOD 서비스 활성화를 위한 VOD 모바일 앱 개발 사례)

  • Ko, Kwangil
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.3-9
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    • 2014
  • As the subscribers of the digital cable and IPTV broadcasting are increasing, the VOD service has established a solid foothold as a profit model of the broadcasting industries. And what's more, the VOD service is emerging as a key application of the N-screen technologies. In the circumstance, broadcasting companies are trying to provide mobile services to improve the satisfaction of their VOD services usage. The paper introduces a VOD mobile app (of a domestic digital cable broadcasting), which includes the functions of promoting the VOD programs printed on a VOD guide book, directly transmitting the information (e.g., book-marking, remote-control signals) generated by the VOD mobile app to a set-top box, and watching the video contents stored in the mobile device on TV.