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Design and Implementation of Malicious Application Detection System Using Event Aggregation on Android based Mobile Devices (안드로이드 모바일 단말에서의 이벤트 수집을 통한 악성 앱 탐지 시스템 설계 및 구현)

  • Ham, You Joung;Lee, Hyung-Woo
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.35-46
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    • 2013
  • As mobile terminal environment gets matured, the use of Android platform based mobile terminals has been growing high. Recently, the number of attacks by malicious application is also increasing as Android platform is vulnerable to private information leakage in nature. Most of these malicious applications are easily distributed to general users through open market or internet and an attacker inserts malicious code into malicious app which could be harmful tool to steal private data and banking data such as SMS, contacts list, and public key certificate to a remote server. To cope with these security threats more actively, it is necessary to develop countermeasure system that enables to detect security vulnerability existing in mobile device and take an appropriate action to protect the system against malicious attacks. In this sense, this paper aggregates diverse system events from multiple mobile devices and also implements a system to detect attacks by malicious application.

Internal Network Partition Security Model Based Authentication using BlockChain Management Server in Cloud Environment (클라우드 환경에서 블록체인관리서버를 이용한 인증기반 내부망 분리 보안 모델)

  • Kim, Young Soo;Lee, Byoung Yup
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.434-442
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    • 2018
  • Recently, the threat to the security and damage of important data leaked by devices of intranet infected by malicious code through the Internet have been increasing. Therefore, the partitioned intranet model that blocks access to the server for business use by implementing authentication of devices connected to the intranet is required. For this, logical net partition with the VDI(Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) method is no information exchange between physical devices connected to the intranet and the virtual device so that it could prevent data leakage and improve security but it is vulnerable to the attack to expose internal data, which has access to the server for business connecting a nonregistered device into the intranet. In order to protect the server for business, we suggest a blockchain based network partition model applying blockchain technology to VDI. It contributes to decrease in threat to expose internal data by improving not only capability to verify forgery of devices, which is the vulnerability of the VDI based logical net partition, but also the integrity of the devices.

Smartphone User Authentication Algorithm based on Mutual Cooperation in Mobile Environment (모바일 환경에서 상호 협력 기반 스마트폰 사용자 인증 알고리즘)

  • Jeong, Pil-Seong;Cho, Yang-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.21 no.7
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    • pp.1393-1400
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    • 2017
  • As the number of smartphone users increases, vulnerability to privacy protection is increasing. This is because personal information is stored on various servers connected to the Internet and the user is authenticated using the same ID and password. Authentication methods such as OTP, FIDO, and PIN codes have been introduced to solve traditional authentication methods, but their use is limited for authentication that requires sharing with other users. In this paper, we propose the authentication method that is needed for the management of shared information such as hospitals and corporations. The proposed algorithm is an algorithm that can authenticate users in the same place in real time using smart phone IMEI, QR code, BLE, push message. We propose an authentication algorithm that can perform user authentication through mutual cooperation using a smart phone and can cancel realtime authentication. And we designed and implemented a mutual authentication system using proposed algorithm.

A Runtime Inspection Technique with Intent Specification for Developing Robust Android Apps (강건한 안드로이드 어플리케이션 개발을 위한 실행시간 인텐트 명세 검사 기법)

  • Ko, Myungpil;Choi, Kwanghoon;Chang, Byeong-Mo
    • Journal of KIISE
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    • v.43 no.2
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    • pp.212-221
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    • 2016
  • Android apps suffer from intent vulnerabilities in that they abnormally stop execution when Android components such as, activity, service, and broadcast receiver, take malformed intents. This paper proposes a method to prevent intent vulnerabilities by allowing programmers to write a specification on intents that a component expects to have, and by checking intents against the specification in runtime. By declaring intent specifications, we can solve the problem that one may miss writing conditional statements, which check the validity of intents, or one may mix those statements with another regular code, so making it difficult to maintain them. We perform an experiment by applying the proposed method to 7 Android apps, and confirm that many of abnormal termination of the apps because of malformed intents can be avoided by the intent specification based runtime assertion.

A Study on VoIP Security Risk Analysis and Countermeasure (VoIP 보안 위협 분석 및 대책 연구)

  • Kim, Hyun-Chul;Kwak, Jin-Suk;Lee, Young-Sil;Lee, Hoon-Jae
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2011.10a
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    • pp.277-280
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    • 2011
  • VoIP is a technology of voice communication, using the existing internet network which sends and receives voice packets. VoIP has an advantage that VoIP is cheaper than an existing telephony, and the tech is vitalized lately. But recently you can download Volp Application in the Market that have a vulnerability(Anyone Can Upload). This weakness is wrongfully used that People are downloaded by encouraging about malignant code is planted. Signal intercepts indicates from this case. and paralysis by DDoS Attack, bypass are charged for hacking. Judging from, security threat of VolP analysis and take countermeasures. In the thesis we analyze the VoIP security caused on 'Soft Phone' and 'Smart Phone', and figure out security policies and delineate those policies on the paper.

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Cyber Attacks and Appropriateness of Self-Defense (사이버 공격과 정당방위의 당위성)

  • Shin, Kyeong-Su
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.21-28
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    • 2019
  • The emergence of a hyper-connected-super-intelligence society, called the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, brought about a new change in the security environment. With ICT (Information Communication Technology) convergence and high-tech technologies introduced across the board, the person-centered driving force that moved the real space is replaced by the code-oriented cyberspace, and its dependency is constantly increasing. Paradoxically, however, these technological changes serve as another security vulnerability that threatens our society, and have brought about the justification for building a cyber defense system while simultaneously facing the opportunities and challenges brought by technology. In this study, the theory of self-defense was put forward on the basis of the theoretical basis for actively responding to the increasingly intelligent and mass-evolving cyberattacks, and firstly, the need to enact a cybersecurity law, secondly, and thirdly, the need to develop a response cooperation system with the U.S. and other cyber powers.

A study on the vulnerability of integrity verification functions of android-based smartphone banking applications (안드로이드 스마트폰 뱅킹 앱 무결성 검증 기능의 취약점 연구)

  • Kim, Soonil;Kim, Sunghoon;Lee, Dong Hoon
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.743-755
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    • 2013
  • In recent years, the malicious apps with malicious code in normal apps are increasingly redistributed in Android market, which may incur various problems such as the leakage of authentication information and transaction information and fraudulent transactions when banking apps to process the financial transactions are exposed to such attacks. Thus the financial authorities established the laws and regulations as an countermeasures against those problems and domestic banks provide the integrity verification functions in their banking apps, yet its reliability has not been verified because the studies of the safety of the corresponding functions have seldom been conducted. Thus this study suggests the vulnerabilities of the integrity verification functions of banking apps by using Android reverse engineering analysis techniques. In case the suggested vulnerabilities are exploited, the integrity verification functions of banking apps are likely to be bypassed, which will facilitate malicious code inserting attacks through repackaging and its risk is very high as proved in a test of this study. Furthermore this study suggests the specific solutions to those vulnerabilities, which will contribute to improving the security level of smartphone financial transaction environment against the application forgery attacks.

Constructing Software Structure Graph through Progressive Execution (점진적 실행을 통한 소프트웨어의 구조 그래프 생성)

  • Lee, Hye-Ryun;Shin, Seung-Hun;Choi, Kyung-Hee;Jung, Gi-Hyun;Park, Seung-Kyu
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.18 no.7
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    • pp.111-123
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    • 2013
  • To verify software vulnerability, the method of conjecturing software structure and then testing the software based on the conjectured structure has been highlighted. To utilize the method, an efficient way to conjecture software structure is required. The popular graph and tree methods such as DFG(Data Flow Graph), CFG(Control Flow Graph) and CFA(Control Flow Automata) have a serious drawback. That is, they cannot express software in a hierarchical fashion. In this paper, we propose a method to overcome the drawback. The proposed method applies various input data to a binary code, generate CFG's based on the code output and construct a HCFG (Hierarchical Control Flow Graph) to express the generated CFG's in a hierarchical structure. The components required for HCFG and progressive algorithm to construct HCFG are also proposed. The proposed method is verified through constructing the software architecture of an open SMTP(Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) server program. The structure generated by the proposed method and the real program structure are compared and analyzed.

A study on security threats to drones using open source and military drone attack scenarios using telemetry hijacking (오픈소스 활용 드론에 대한 보안 위협과 Telemetry Hijacking을 이용한 군용 드론 공격 시나리오 연구)

  • Lee, Woojin;Seo, Kyungdeok;Chae, Byeongmin
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.103-112
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    • 2020
  • Recently, the interest in hobby/leisure drones is increasing in the private sector, and the military also uses drones in various countries such as North Korea, the United States, and Iran for military purposes such as reconnaissance and destruction. A variety of drone related research is underway, such as establishing and operating drone units within the Korean military. Inparticular, recently, as the size of drone flight control source code increases and the number of functions increases, drone developers are getting accustomed to using open sources and using them without checking for separate security vulnerabilities. However, since these open sources are actually accessible to attackers, they are inevitably exposed to various vulnerabilities. In this paper, we propose an attack scenario for military drones using open sources in connection with these vulnerabilities using Telemetry Hijacking techniques.

Balancing Water Supply Reliability, Flood Hazard Mitigation and Environmental Resilience in Large River Systems

  • Goodwin, Peter
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2016.05a
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    • pp.1-1
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    • 2016
  • Many of the world's large ecosystems are severely stressed due to population growth, water quality and quantity problems, vulnerability to flood and drought, and the loss of native species and cultural resources. Consequences of climate change further increase uncertainties about the future. These major societal challenges must be addressed through innovations in governance, policy, and ways of implementing management strategies. Science and engineering play a critical role in helping define possible alternative futures that could be achieved and the possible consequences to economic development, quality of life, and sustainability of ecosystem services. Science has advanced rapidly during the past decade with the emergence of science communities coalescing around 'Grand Challenges' and the maturation of how these communities function has resulted in large interdisciplinary research networks. An example is the River Experiment Center of KICT that engages researchers from throughout Korea and the world. This trend has been complemented by major advances in sensor technologies and data synthesis to accelerate knowledge discovery. These factors combine to allow scientific debate to occur in a more open and transparent manner. The availability of information and improved communication of scientific and engineering issues is raising the level of dialogue at the science-policy interface. However, severe challenges persist since scientific discovery does not occur on the same timeframe as management actions, policy decisions or at the pace sometimes expected by elected officials. Common challenges include the need to make decisions in the face of considerable uncertainty, ensuring research results are actionable and preventing science being used by special interests to delay or obsfucate decisions. These challenges are explored in the context of examples from the United States, including the California Bay-Delta system. California transfers water from the wetter northern part of the state to the drier southern part of the state through the Central Valley Project since 1940 and this was supplemented by the State Water Project in 1973. The scale of these activities is remarkable: approximately two thirds of the population of Californians rely on water from the Delta, these waters also irrigate up to 45% of the fruits & vegetables produced in the US, and about 80% of California's commercial fishery species live in or migrate through the Bay-Delta. This Delta region is a global hotspot for biodiversity that provides habitat for over 700 species, but is also a hotspot for the loss of biodiversity with more than 25 species currently listed by the Endangered Species Act. Understanding the decline of the fragile ecosystem of the Bay-Delta system and the potential consequences to economic growth if water transfers are reduced for the environment, the California State Legislature passed landmark legislation in 2009 (CA Water Code SS 85054) that established "Coequal goals of providing a more reliable water supply for California and protecting, restoring, and enhancing the Delta ecosystem". The legislation also stated that "The coequal goals shall be achieved in a manner that protects and enhances the unique cultural, recreational, natural resource, and agricultural values of the Delta as an evolving place." The challenges of integrating policy, management and scientific research will be described through this and other international examples.

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