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http://dx.doi.org/10.13089/JKIISC.2013.23.6.1007

A Study on Structural Vulnerability of MobilePhone Micropayment System And Improvement of Standard Payment Module for User Protection  

Park, Kwang Sun (Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency)
Lee, Sang-Jin (Center for Information Security Technologies, Korea University)
Publication Information
Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology / v.23, no.6, 2013 , pp. 1007-1015 More about this Journal
Abstract
The automatic payment process of mobile phone micropayment system has not checked user's authentication. That is the structural vulnerability of mobile phone micropayment system. The malicious contents provider can cheat users and payment gateway through abusing the structural vulnerability. The payment gateway applies standard payment module after August, 2012 in order to solve the problem. But the standard payment module also has the vulnerability that makes damage of users. So the purpose of this paper is to suggest efficient improvement of standard payment module for user protection.
Keywords
Mobile Phone Micropayment System; Standard Payment Module; Vulnerability;
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