• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.169-176
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• 2016

Android platform is designed to be user-friendly, yet sometimes its convenience introduces vulnerabilities that normal users cannot justify. In this paper, after making an overview of popular open source analysis tools for android applications, we point out the dangerous use of Permission Group in current Google Policy, and suggest a technique to mitigate the risks of privilege escalation that attackers are taking advantage of. By conducting the investigation of 21,064 malware samples, we conclude that the proposed technique is considered effective in detecting insecure application update, as well as giving users the heads-up in security awareness.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.2 no.11
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• pp.503-510
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• 2013

Recently, the rapid development of network technology has enabled people to use various services on the internet. However, the existing password-based user authentication system used in the internet environment requires a password table, which is a potential security threat as it could be leaked by an insider. To solve this issue, remote user authentication methods that do not require a user password table have been proposed. Regarding remote user authentication using a smart card in particular, various methods have been suggested to reduce expenses and to improve stability and efficiency, but the possibility of impersonation attacks and password-guessing attacks using information saved in a user's smart card still exist. Therefore, this study proposes a remote user authentication method that can safeguard against impersonation attacks and password guessing attacks, by analyzing weak points of conventional methods and creating a smart card's ID and password that are based on the user's ID and password.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.602-608
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• 2014

Smartphones have become commonplace to use smart, BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) spread the trend of domestic WLAN use is intensifying as a result, the security threat will be greatly increased. Even though WLAN vendors such as Cisco Systems Inc,. Aruba networks released WIPS, MDM, DLP etc, however, these solutions can not be easily introduced for small business due to high cost or administrative reasons. In this paper, without the introduction of expensive H/W equipment, in WLAN environments, packet analysis, AP, Station management, security vulnerabilities can be analyzed by the proposed intrusion detection system.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.3 no.11
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• pp.427-432
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• 2014

The Purpose of local system attacks is to acquire administrator's(root) privilege shell through the execution of the malicious program or change the flow of the program. This acquiring shell through attack is still valid approach method and it is difficult to cope with improving each of vulnerability because the attacker can select various forms of attack. Linux allocate a set of credentials when login, in order to manage user permissions. Credentials were issued and managed by the kernel directly, and also the kernel ensures that any change cannot be occurred outside of kernel. But, user's credentials that acquired root privilege through system attacks occurs a phenomenon that does not remain consistent. In this paper we propose a security module to detect a security threats that may cause to users and tasks by analysis user task execution and inconsistency credentials.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.127-137
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• 2012

With the spread of the new technologies like a smart phone, a smart pad, N-Screen service for financial transaction quickly became commonplace through the Internet. Although it has been developed related technologies and policies since the N-Screen has been provided in Korea, infrastructure for financial services is still lacking. It also has many potential problems including phishing or malware attacks, privacy information exposure & breaches, etc. This work suggests the financial security framework in the side of information protection through threat vulnerability analysis. Further, we examine the possibility of effective application methods based on political technical design.

• Journal of Korean Society of societal Security
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.63-67
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• 2008

This study focuses on assessing the security ri sk or the terrorism in chemical process industries. This research modifies conventional method for assessing the terrorism risk. The risk assessment method is developed and it is implemented as software to analyze the possibility of terrorism and sabotage. This program includes five steps; asset characterization, threat assessment, vulnerability analysis, risk assessment and new countermeasures. It is a systematic, risk based approach in which risk is a function of the severity of consequences of an undesired event, the likelihood of adversary attack, and the likelihood of adversary success in causing the undesired event. The reliability of the program is verified using a dock zone case. The case dock zone includes a storage farm, a manufacturing plant, an electrical supply utility, a hydrotreater unit, many containers, and administration buildings. This study represents chemical terrorism response technology, the prevention plan, and new countermeasure to mitigate by using risk assessment methods in the chemical industry and public sector. This study suggests an effective approach to the chemical terrorism response management.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.23-32
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• 2010

WiBro(Wireless Broadband), the service based on IEEE 802.16e(mobile WiMAX) standard, is a wireless broadband Internet technology being developed by the domestic telecommunication industry. In this paper, we analyze security vulnerabilities of WiBro focusing on initial authentication phase and propose a specification-based intrusion detection system that can detect those vulnerabilities. We first derive a specification from the normally operational process of the initial authentication based on PKMv2 EAP-AKA and formalize the derived specification as a state transition diagram. Proposed system executes the intrusion detection based on those specification and state transition diagram. In this paper, to verify the detection capability of proposed system, we construct a test bed network and execute scenario-based test.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.10C no.5
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• pp.565-574
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• 2003

This paper implements an intrusion detection message exchange protocol library (IDMEPL) for SDMS-RTIR, which Korea Information Security Agency (KISA) has developed to hierarchically detect and respond to network vulnerability scan attacks. The IDMEPL, based on the IDMEF and the IAP of the IDWG, enables SDMS-RTIR to interact with other intrusion detection systems (IDS) in realtime, and supports the TLS protocol to prevent security threats in exchanging messages between its server and its agents. Especially, with the protocol selection stage, the IDMEPL can support various protocols such as the IDXP besides the IAP. Furthermore, it can allow for agents to choose an appropriate security protocol for their own network, achieving security stronger than mutual authentication. With the IDMEPL, SDMS-RTIR can receive massive intrusion detection messages from heterogeneous IDSes in large-scale networks and analyze them.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.1257-1268
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• 2015

Multi-functional devices was originally an equipment performing image processing, but function transmitting image data digitized by combining fax function and function of network are added and it was rapidly developed. Also, functions of internet application, application expansion, remote sharing and image treatment were added to multi-functional devices. But, multi-functional devices can cause security vulnerability such as data exposure, eavesdropping, etc. because of the threatening by network connection. Therefore, common criteria of multi-functional devices are necessary, but there is no protection profile for multi-functional devices now. Therefore, concrete standards of evaluation are not applied to evaluate secure for products, so it was difficult to maintain uniformity of evaluation quality. Therefore, this paper developed protection profile for multi-functional devices based on common criteria of evaluation so as to analyze threats of multi-functional devices and use secure multi-functional devices.

• Journal of the military operations research society of Korea
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.71-85
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• 2011

The most important factors of Electronic approval system of battle management system are availability and reliability. Therefore, the electronic approval system uses a SAN(storage area network) to construct the reliable server and storage. In this paper, we analyze the security vulnerabilities of the SAN storage that stores the critical military information in the electronic approval system of battle management system. Based on the analysis, we verify the possibility of information leakage by the inside attackers through the scenario-based experiment. And we finally propose a new storage encryption algorithm on the basis of user's role that can prevent the leakage of information by the inside attackers.