• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.49-60
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• 2011

Instant Messenger is one of the most popular communication service when translating message or data each other through Internet. For digital crime investigation, therefore, it is obviously important to obtain communication trace and contents derived from Instant Messenger. This is because that gathering traditional communication histories also have been important until now. However, extracting communication trace and contents are not easy because they are generally encrypted or obfuscated in local system, futhermore, sometimes they are located at server computer for Instant Messenger. This paper researches on extracting communication histories against NateOn, BuddyBuddy, Yahoo! messenger and Mi3 messenger, and obtaining user password or bypassing authentication system to Instant Messenger Service when a user use auto-login option.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.181-192
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• 2010

The purpose of this paper is to observe the influence of internet addiction, interpersonal anxiety and self-control in messenger immersion. Questionnaires regarding internet addiction, interpersonal anxiety and self-control were administered to 600 6th grade elementary school students and 2nd grade middle school students in the province of Seoul, South Korea. A total of 592 questionnaires were collected. As statistical methods, Cronbach's, multiple linear regression analysis and stepwise regression with SPSS 10.0 were used. The main results of the study were as follows - 1) In observing the degree of messenger Immersion by the sex and grade of the adolescent, the results show that the percentage in the top group and the middle group appears higher for school boys than school girls as well as 6th grade school-children rather than for 2nd grade middle school students. 2) A difference was noted between the messenger immersion factor in school-boys' and that in school-girls'.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.1-20
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• 2012

In recent years, C2C e-commerce has become more and more popular in China. Chinese C2C buyers use an instant messaging more commonly during transactions compared to other countries, which seems to be an interesting phenomenon. Based on the Chinese market, this study aims to examine the role of instant messenger in the C2C e-commerce context and to find how it impacts buyers' purchase intentions. In addition to use of instant messenger, we brought in two antecedents of purchase intention-trust for vendor and customer satisfaction-to establish a theoretical research model. Through an online questionnaire survey, we tested and analyzed the research model and its related hypotheses. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data, and the results indicated that use of instant messenger did not directly influence purchase intention but had positive effects both on trust for vendor and customer satisfaction, which in turn influenced purchase intention. In conclusion, we discussed the research findings and suggested some implications for researchers and practitioners.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.67-80
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• 2007

Nateon Messenger, which has the most number of users in Korea, supports many services such as E-mail, note, Cyworld, SMS, etc. In this paper, we will analyse the authentication traffic which is transmitted and received by the Nateon Messenger. Through performing the replay attack with the authentication information, we will show that an attacker can be authenticated illegally. Furthermore, we will show that other domestic messengers have similar security problems.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.45-48
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• 2007

메신저는 인터넷을 통해 실시간으로 대화를 주고받을 수 있는 소프트웨어로서 사용률이 점차 증가하고 있는 추세이다. 메신저의 사용률이 증가함에 따라 메신저를 사이버 범죄의 하나의 도구로써 이용하는 사례가 발생하고 있다. 메신저가 사이버 범죄에 악용되는 사례가 늘어나면서 전 세계적으로 MSN Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ와 같은 외산 메신저 소프트웨어 대한 포렌식 연구가 활발히 진행 되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 현재 국내에서 사용되고 있는 메신저에 대한 포렌식 기법 연구를 통하여 범죄 발생 당시 용의자들의 정보를 획득하고 이를 컴퓨터 범죄 수사에 활용하는 방안을 제시한다.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.33-63
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• 2016

The diffusion of smartphone has make people engaged in communication with mobile messenger in everyday life. To understand the rapid growth of mobile messenger usage, this study investigates the unique features of mobile messenger services as communication media. Based on the media synchronicity theory and literature about online communication, we identify the functional and emotional features of mobile messenger. In particular, this study demonstrates that functional and emotional features of mobile messenger would influence intimacy and fatigue. Also, intimacy and fatigue, as mediating variables, have an impact on user satisfaction and commitment toward mobile messenger service. The results of this study provide practical implications for mobile messenger providers and users which attempt to facilitate positive effect such as intimacy among users and reduce negative effect such as fatigue on mobile messenger communication.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.8 no.9
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• pp.271-276
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• 2017

This project has been conducted to improve the usability of Chatbot Services such as Google(Allo) and Facebook M(Messenger. Based on the evaluation, this study aims to suggest the solutions to improve the usability of domestic Chatbot services and future directions for their development. It provides the overall understanding of the AI Chatbot service and the feature of Chatbot service through literature search. Furthermore, we summarized the current standing and the prospect of domestic messenger-based assistant Chatbot services. For conducting user evaluation, Peter Morville's honeycomb model is applied to in-depth user interviews. The followings are elements that could be amended to improve the service. The service should be incorporated by intuitive elements for users' understanding its functions and eliminate any elements that interfere with usability. The accuracy should be increased to improve the user satisfaction. This research will provide the future guidelines to improve the usability of Chabot services through continuous evaluation by users.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.72-80
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• 2016

Recently, IM(Instant Messenger) of KakaoTalk is being used on smart devices such as smartphones. Because IM service can carry user and/or suspector's various information including life style, geographical position, psychology and crime history, forensic analysis on IM service is desirable. But, forensic analysis for KakaoTalk is not well studied yet. This paper studies a proper forensic method for KakaoTalks, finds artifacts location, reconstruct the list of contacts and the chronology of the messages that have been exchanged by users. Proposed methodology and analyzed information can provide a basic platform for forensic tool.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.717-728
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• 2014

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to develop a model tat explains the motivation of mobile coupon gift intention in mobile instant messenger service. Methods: This study utilized Structural Equation Model to clarify factors those influence mobile coupon gift intention under mobile messenger environment. Results: The research model in this study is verified with two hundreds sample data. This study found that mobile coupon gift-givers's giving intention is influenced by experimental and obligated motivation, price utility, social value of gift-giving, and perceived ease of use of the technology. Conclusion: This study verified five factors those influence to mobile coupon gift-giving intention. Although this study initially suggests and verify gift-giving intention model, we expect further research that related to other factors affecting the intention and other recent technology factors such as personal innovation and others.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.151-162
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• 2021

Steganography is an advanced technique that hides secret messages by transforming them into subtle noise and spreading them within multimedia files such as images, video and audio. This technology has been exploited in a variety of espionage and cyber attacks. SNS messenger is an attractive SNS Service platform for sending and receiving multimedia files, which is the main medium of steganography. In this study, we proposed two noble steganography communication techniques that guarantee the complete reception rate through the use of thumbnail images in the SNS messenger environment. In addition, the feasibility was verified through implementation and testing of the proposed techniques in a real environment using KakaoTalk, a representative SNS messenger in south korea. By proposing new steganography methods in this study, we re-evaluate the risk of the steganography methods and promoted follow-up studies on the corresponding defense techniques.