• Review of KIISC
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.7-16
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• 2022

현대 사회에서 스마트폰이 일상생활에 밀접하게 사용됨에 따라 스마트폰 내부에는 사용자가 사용한 다양한 앱 데이터가 저장되고 있고 이 중에는 민감한 개인정보도 포함된다. 따라서 스마트폰을 분실하거나 스마트폰이 악성앱에 공격당하는 경우 개인정보가 유출될 수 있기 때문에, 이를 대응하기 위해 스마트폰 내부 데이터를 암호화 저장하는 다양한 앱들이 출시되고 있다. 우리는 총 12개의 데이터 암호화 앱들에 대한 기존 연구 결과를 통해 데이터 암호화 앱에 대한 동향을 살펴보고, 안드로이드 앱 마켓에서 전 세계적으로 10,000,000회 이상 다운로드되어 널리 사용되고 있는 5개의 추가적인 데이터 암호화 앱을 분석했다. 그 중 특히 LOCKit 앱을 자세히 분석하여 암호 알고리즘에 대한 취약점을 밝혀내 데이터 복호화 방법과 취약점 보완을 위한 방안을 제시했다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.1528-1531
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• 2011

최근 악성봇은 해커에 의해 원격 조정되어 명령에 의해 스팸메일 발송, DDoS 공격 등의 악성행위를 수행하는 웜/바이러스이다[2]. 악성봇은 이전의 웜/바이러스와 달리 금전적인 이득을 목적으로 하는 것이 많아 작게는 일상생활의 불편함으로부터 크게는 사회적, 국가적으로 악영향을 주고 있다. 국내에서는 이러한 위험을 방어하기 위한 효과적인 대응 방법으로 DNS 싱크홀을 운영 하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 DNS 싱크홀 운영 중 수집한 봇 명령/제어 (Command and Control, C&C) 도메인을 Internet Service Provider (ISP) DNS 싱크홀 시스템에 적용하는 과정에서 나타나는 문제점을 효과적으로 해결 하기 위한 DNS Response Policy Zone(RPZ)을 이용한 DNS 싱크홀 운영 방안을 제시 하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.620-623
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• 2022

최근 이메일 해킹사고의 유형을 살펴보면 사회공학적인 기법을 활용한 피싱메일 공격이 대다수를 차지하고 있는 상황이다. 그중 사용자의 패스워드를 빼내기 위한 공격메일이 기존 첨부파일에 악성코드를 삽입해서 보내지는 방식보다 월등히 높아졌다고 할 수 있다. 이는 공격자가 이메일 내용에 관심이 높아진 것으로 이메일은 사용자의 성향, 직업, 라이프스타일 파악뿐만 아니라 해커가 원하는 중요자료가 저장되어 있을 가능성이 매우 높으며 또 다른 공격대상자를 선정할 수 있는 좋은 창구가 될 수 있을 것이기 때문이다. 만일 피싱메일에 노출되어 패스워드가 해커의 손에 넘어 갔다면 많은 보안대책이 무용지물이 된다. 많은 보안 전문가들은 패스워드를 8자리 이상으로 하되 영문대·소문자와 숫자 그리고 특수문자를 포함하고, 사이트별 규칙성이 없이 모두 다르게 설정해야 하며, 정기적으로 바꿔야 한다고 조언한다. 이러한 조언은 패스워드를 크랙할 경우 안전할 수 있지만 요즘처럼 한 개인이 100여개 이상의 사이트에 대한 패스워드를 관리해야 한다면 현실적으로 불가능한 조언이 되고 말 것이다. 이러한 상황에 2017년 6월 미국 국립표준기술연구소(NIST)에서 '특별 간행 800-63-3: 디지털 인증 가이드라인'을 발표하게 된다. 내용은 그동안 보안전문가들이 권고했던 내용과는 많은 차이가 있다. 오히려 자주 바꾸는 것이 문제가 될 수 있다는 내용이다. 자세한 내용은 본 논문에서 살펴보도록 한다. 우리는 스마트폰 등을 사용함으로써 2-Factor인증에 활용하고 있다. 스마트폰 인증의 대표적인 방법은 지문·얼굴인식 등 생체인증 방식을 사용한다. 패스워드 없이도 편리하고 안전하게 인증을 할 수 있다는 점이 장점이다. 이러한 상황에 FIDO라는 인증 프레임워크가 인기를 얻고 있다. FIDO(Fast IDentity Online)는 비밀번호의 문제점을 해결하기 위한 목적으로 FIDO 얼라이언스에 의해 제안된 사용자 인증 프레임워크다. 향후 FIDO로의 대체가 패스워드 문제의 대안이 될 수 있을 것이다. 이제는 패스워드 대신 생체인증 체계로 대체할 수 있는 시대가 되었다고 할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 패스워드의 문제점을 살펴보고 이를 대체할 수 있는 FIDO기반의 인증체계가 대안이 될 수 있는 근거를 제시하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.731-742
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• 2017

For all the various cryptographic techniques related to security, social technological attacks such as a shoulder surfing are infeasible to block off completely. Especially, the attacks are executed against financial facilities such as automated teller machine(ATM) which are located in public areas. Furthermore, online financial services whose rate of task management is consistently increasing are vulnerable to a shoulder surfing, smudge attacks, and key stroke inference attacks with google glass behind the convenience of ubiquitous business transactions. In this paper, we show that the security of ATM and internet banking can be reinforced against a shoulder surfing by using One-Time Keypad(OTK) and compare the security of OTK with those of ordinary keypad and One-Time Password(OTP).

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.18 no.5_1
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• pp.93-98
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• 2018

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co., Ltd., Korea Electric Power Corporation, and Korea South-East Power Corporation are major infrastructure facilities of power supplying countries. If a malicious hacking attack occurs, the damage is beyond the imagination. In fact, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power has been subjected to a hacking attack, causing internal information to leak and causing social big problems. In this paper, we propose a strategy and countermeasures for stabilization of various power generation control systems by analyzing the environment and the current status of power generation control system for convergence security research, which is becoming a hot issue. We propose a method to normalize and integrate data types from various physical security systems (facilities), IT security systems, access control systems, to control the whole system through convergence authentication, and to detect risks through fusion control.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38B no.6
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• pp.492-500
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• 2013

The One-Time Password(OTP) Generator is used as a multi-factor authentication method to ensure secure transaction during e-Financial transaction in the bank and securities company. The OTP based e-Financial Transaction Verification Protocol ensures secure e-financial transaction through confirming the user's identity using OTP authentication information and counters not only Man-in-the-Browser(MITB) attacks but also memory hacking attacks. However, it is possible to generate correct OTPs due to potential of stealing sensitive information of the OTP generator through intelligent phishing, pharming, social engineering attacks. Therefore, it needs another scheme to prevent from above threats, and this paper proposes advanced scheme using Physical Unclonable Functions(PUFs) to solve these problems. First, it is impossible to generate the same OTP values because of the hysically unclonable features of PUFs. In addition, it is impossible to clone OTP generator with hardware techniques. Consequently, the proposed protocol provides stronger and more robust authentication protocol than existing one by adding PUFs in the OTP generator.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.79-90
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• 2014

User authentication based on ID and PW has been widely used. As the Internet has become a growing part of people' lives, input times of ID/PW have been increased for a variety of services. People have already learned enough to perform the authentication procedure and have entered ID/PW while ones are unconscious. This is referred to as the adaptive unconscious, a set of mental processes incoming information and producing judgements and behaviors without our conscious awareness and within a second. Most people have joined up for various websites with a small number of IDs/PWs, because they relied on their memory for managing IDs/PWs. Human memory decays with the passing of time and knowledges in human memory tend to interfere with each other. For that reason, there is the potential for people to enter an invalid ID/PW. Therefore, these characteristics above mentioned regarding of user authentication with ID/PW can lead to human vulnerabilities: people use a few PWs for various websites, manage IDs/PWs depending on their memory, and enter ID/PW unconsciously. Based on the vulnerability of human factors, a variety of information leakage attacks such as phishing and pharming attacks have been increasing exponentially. In the past, information leakage attacks exploited vulnerabilities of hardware, operating system, software and so on. However, most of current attacks tend to exploit the vulnerabilities of the human factors. These attacks based on the vulnerability of the human factor are called social-engineering attacks. Recently, malicious social-engineering technique such as phishing and pharming attacks is one of the biggest security problems. Phishing is an attack of attempting to obtain valuable information such as ID/PW and pharming is an attack intended to steal personal data by redirecting a website's traffic to a fraudulent copy of a legitimate website. Screens of fraudulent copies used for both phishing and pharming attacks are almost identical to those of legitimate websites, and even the pharming can include the deceptive URL address. Therefore, without the supports of prevention and detection techniques such as vaccines and reputation system, it is difficult for users to determine intuitively whether the site is the phishing and pharming sites or legitimate site. The previous researches in terms of phishing and pharming attacks have mainly studied on technical solutions. In this paper, we focus on human behaviour when users are confronted by phishing and pharming attacks without knowing them. We conducted an attack experiment in order to find out how many IDs/PWs are leaked from pharming and phishing attack. We firstly configured the experimental settings in the same condition of phishing and pharming attacks and build a phishing site for the experiment. We then recruited 64 voluntary participants and asked them to log in our experimental site. For each participant, we conducted a questionnaire survey with regard to the experiment. Through the attack experiment and survey, we observed whether their password are leaked out when logging in the experimental phishing site, and how many different passwords are leaked among the total number of passwords of each participant. Consequently, we found out that most participants unconsciously logged in the site and the ID/PW management dependent on human memory caused the leakage of multiple passwords. The user should actively utilize repudiation systems and the service provider with online site should support prevention techniques that the user can intuitively determined whether the site is phishing.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.23-35
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• 2015

When people stands near someone's mobile device, it can easily be seen by others. To rephrase this, attackers use human psychology to earn personal information or credit information or other. People are exposed by social engineering attacks. It is certain that we need more than just recommendation for the security to avoid social engineering attacks. This is why I proposed this paper. In this paper, I proposed an authentication technique using NFC and Hash function to stand against social engineering attack. Proposed technique result is showing that it could prevent shoulder surfing, touch event information, spyware attack using screen capture and smudge attack which relies on detecting the oily smudges left behind by user's fingers. Besides smart phone, IPad, Galaxy tab, Galaxy note and more mobile devices has released and releasing. And also, these mobile devices usage rate is increasing widely. We need to attend these matters and study in depth.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.368-375
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• 2015

Nowaday, financial institutions provide secure mobile keyboard solutions to keep their mobile banking services safe. However, these are still vulnerable to attacks, such as shoulder surfing attack. Especially, in the case of handicapped person such as visual impairment and blindness, they are more vulnerable than ordinary person because of inconvenience of secure information input. Among them, we focused on the color blind. For the color blind, 4-color based secure keyboard method causes more inconvenience to notify exact color. Thus, we propose a secure mobile keyboard solution to provide advanced functionality for the color blind users. Our method is based on 4-color theorem to support color blind users. In addition, our scheme is robust against shoulder surfing attack. According to the evaluation result, our method offers increased security against shoulder surfing attack compare with existing methods.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.429-442
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• 2020

The proportion of attacks via office documents is increasing in recent incidents. Although the security of office applications has been strengthened gradually, the attacks through the office documents are still effective due to the sophisticated use of social engineering techniques and advanced attack techniques. In this paper, we propose a method for detecting malicious OOXML(Office Open XML) documents and a framework for detection. To do this, malicious files used in the attack and benign files were collected from the malicious code repository and the search engine. By analyzing the malicious code types of collected files, we identified six "suspicious object" elements that are meaningful in determining whether they are malicious in a document. In addition, we implemented an OOXML document-based malware detection framework based on the detection method to classify the collected files and found that 98.45% of malicious filesets were detected.