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A Hybrid Vulnerability of NFC Technology in Smart Phone  

Park, Chang Min (서울과학기술대학교 글로벌융합산업공학과)
Park, Neo (극동대학교 유비쿼터스 IT학과)
Park, Won Hyung (극동대학교 정보경영학과)
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Convergence Security Journal / v.12, no.4, 2012 , pp. 3-8 More about this Journal
Abstract
Smartphones have all the recent technology integration and NFC (Near Field Communication) Technology is one of them and become an essential these days. Despite using smartphones with NFC technology widely, not many security vulnerabilities have been discovered. This paper attempts to identify characteristics and various services in NFC technology, and to present a wide range of security vulnerabilities, prevention, and policies especially in NFC Contactless technology. We describe a security vulnerability and an possible threat based on human vulnerability and traditional malware distribution technic using Peer-to-Peer network on NFC-Enabled smartphones. The vulnerability is as follows: An attacker creates a NFC tag for distributing his or her malicious code to unspecified individuals and apply to hidden spot near by NFC reader in public transport like subway system. The tag will direct smartphone users to a certain website and automatically downloads malicious codes into their smartphones. The infected devices actually help to spread malicious code using P2P mode and finally as traditional DDoS attack, a certain target will be attacked by them at scheduled time.
Keywords
NFC; Smart Mobile Phone; Malware;
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