• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39B no.5
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• pp.309-316
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• 2014

It is easy to reverse engineer an Android app package file(APK) and get its decompiled source code. Therefore, attackers obtains economic benefits by illegally using the decompiled source code, or modifies an app by inserting malware. To address these problems in Android, we propose an APK overwrite scheme that protects apps against illegal modification of themselves by using a new anti-reverse engineering technique. In this paper, the targets are the apps which have been written by any programmer. For a target app (original app), server system (1) makes a copy of a target app, (2) encrypts the target app, (3) creates a stub app by replacing the DEX (Dalvik Executable) of the copied version with our stub DEX, and then (4) distributes the stub app as well as the encrypted target app to users of smartphones. The users downloads both the encrypted target app and the corresponding stub app. Whenever the stub app is executed on smartphones, the stub app and our launcher app decrypt the encrypted target app, overwrite the stub app with the decrypted target one, and executes the decrypted one. Every time the target app ends its execution, the decrypted app is deleted. To verify the feasibility of the proposed scheme, experimentation with several popular apps are carried out. The results of the experiment demonstrate that our scheme is effective for preventing reverse engineering and tampering of Android apps.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.845-853
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• 2022

As the memory capacity of smartphone increases, the type and amount of privacy stored in the smartphone is also increasing. but recently there is an increasing possibility that various personal information such as photos and videos of smartphones may be leaked due to malicious apps by malicious attackers or other people such as repair technicians. This paper analyzed and studied the security and vulnerability of these vault apps by analyzing the cryptography algorithm and data protection function. We analyzed 5.3.7(June 13, 2022) and 3.3.2(December 30, 2020) versions of AppLock, the most downloaded information-hidding apps registered with Google Play, and found various vulnerabilities. In the case of access control, there was a vulnerability in that values for encrypting patterns entered by users were hardcoded into plain text in the source code, and encrypted pattern values were stored in xml files. In addition, in the case of the vault function, there was a vulnerability in that the files and log files for storing in the vault were not encrypted.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.441-444
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• 2016

Peace on the Korean Peninsula is threatened by physical aggressions and cyber terrors such as nuclear tests, missile launchings, senior government officials' smart phone hackings and DDos attacks to banking systems. Cyber attacks such as vulnerability for the hackings, malware distributions are generally defended by passive defense through the detecting signs of first invasion and attack, data analysis, adding library and updating vaccine programs. In this paper the concept of security program based on Google TensorFlow machine learning ability to perform adding libraries and solving security vulnerabilities by itself is researched and proposed.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.1-9
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• 2015

Recently, with smart device proliferation and providing the various services using this, they have interested in mobile and Smart TV security. Smartphone users are enjoying various service, such as cloud, game, banking. But today's mobile security solutions and Study of Smart TV Security simply stays at the level of malicious code detection, mobile device management, security system itself. Accordingly, there is a need for technology for preventing hacking and leakage of sensitive information, such as certificates, legal documents, individual credit card number. To solve this problem, a variety of security technologies(mobile virtualization, ARM TrustZone, GlobalPlatform, MDM) in mobile devices have been studied. In this paper, we propose an efficient method to implement security technology based on TYPE-I virtualization using ARM TrustZone technology.

• Journal of Convergence Society for SMB
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.17-23
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• 2016

Recently, Internet services via various devices including smartphone have become available. Because of the development of ICT, numerous hacking incidents have occurred and most of those attacks turned out to be APT attacks. APT attack means an attack method by which a hacker continues to collect information to achieve his goal, and analyzes the weakness of the target and infects it with malicious code, and being hidden, leaks the data in time. In this paper, we examine the information collection method the APT attackers use to invade the target system in a short time using big data, and we suggest and evaluate the countermeasure to protect against the attack method using big data.

• Journal of Information Technology Services
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.113-131
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• 2014

Smartphone security threat has become an important issue in Information Science field following the wide distribution of smartphones. However, there are few studies related to such. Therefore, this study examined the factors affecting the intention of smartphone users to use the mobile vaccine against malware with the Protection Motivation Theory. To secure the reliability of the study, a surveying agency was commissioned. A total of 263 respondents, excluding 37 respondents who are users of iOS, which does not have mobile vaccine in the smart phone, or who gave invalid responses, were surveyed. The results showed that perception of the installed mobile vaccine significantly affected the Response Efficacy and Self-efficacy, and that the Perceived Severity, Perceived Vulnerability, Response Efficacy, and Self-efficacy significantly influenced the intention to use the mobile vaccine. On the other hand, Installation Perception of mobile vaccine itself did not affect the Perceived Severity and Perceived Vulnerability. This study is significant since it presented the new evaluation model of threat evaluation and response evaluation in the Protection Motivation Theory in accepting the security technology and raised the need for the promotion and exposure of mobile vaccine, since perception of mobile vaccine installation affects the response evaluation. It also found that the promotion must consider the seriousness of smartphone security, outstanding attribute of mobile vaccine, and user-friendliness of mobile vaccine above all.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.12
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• pp.565-573
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• 2014

We have various e-commerce like on-line banking, stock trading, shopping using a PC or SmartPhone. In e-commerce, two parties use the certificate for identification and non-repudiation but, the attack on the certificate user steadily has been increasing since 2005. The most of hacking is stealing the public certificate and private key files. After hacking, the stolen public certificate and private key file is used on e-commerce to fraud. Generally, the private key file is encrypted and saved only with the user's password, and an encrypted private key file can be used after decrypted with user password. If a password is exposed to hackers, hacker decrypt the encrypted private key file, and uses it. For this reason, the hacker attacks user equipment in a various way like installing Trojan's horse to take over the user's certificate and private key file. In this paper, I propose the management method to secure private key of PKI using One Time Password certification technique. As a result, even if the encrypted private key file is exposed outside, the user's private key is kept safely.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2014.04a
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• pp.475-478
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• 2014

최근 인터넷이 발전함에 따라 월드와이드웹(World Wide Web) 기반의 웹 서비스가 급격한 발전을 이루었다. 또한 이 웹 서비스를 바탕으로 다양한 컨텐츠들과 이를 이용하는 사용자의 수도 함께 증가하였다. 그러나 이와 같은 웹 서비스의 보편화가 증대될수록 이를 악용하려는 사이버 범죄 또한 비례하여 증가하고 있다. 최근에는 공격자들이 스마트폰을 대상으로 악성코드를 전파하기 위한 방법으로 웹 서비스를 활용하기 시작하면서 웹 서비스의 보안에 대한 중요성이 더욱 강조되고 있다. 이러한 웹 서비스 보안의 필요성을 인지하고, 많은 사람들이 무료로 쉽게 웹 서비스 보안취약점을 진단 할 수 있도록 여러 오픈소스 기반의 보안 취약점 진단도구가 연구, 개발되고 있다. 하지만 웹 서비스의 보안약점을 진단하는 도구의 적합성 평가 및 기능 분류가 명확하지 않아서 진단도구를 선택하고 활용함에 있어 어려움이 따른다. 본 논문에서는 OWASP에서 위험도에 따라 선정한 웹 서비스의 보안 취약점 Top 10 항목과 소프트웨어 보안약점 진단가이드 등을 통해 웹 서비스 보안 취약점을 진단하는 도구에 대한 분석 기준을 제시한다. 이후 오픈소스로 공개된 테스트 기반 취약점 탐지도구와 소스 기반 취약점 진단도구들에 대해 제시한 기준을 이용하여 분석한다. 본 논문의 분석결과로 웹 서비스의 안전성을 평가하기 위해 활용할 수 있는 진단 도구에 대한 분석정보를 제공함으로써 보다 안전한 웹 서비스의 개발과 운영에 기여할 것으로 기대한다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.607-615
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• 2015

Mosts user of internet and smart phone has certificate, and uses it when money transfer, stock trading, on-line shopping, etc. Mosts user stores certificate in a hard disk drive of PC, or the external storage medium. In particular, the certification agencies are encouraged for user to store certificate in external storage media such as USB memory rather than a hard disk drive. User think that the external storage medium is safe, but when it is connect to a PC, certificate may be copied easily, and can be exposed to hackers through malware or pharming site. Moreover, if a hacker knows the user's password, he can use user's certificate without restrictions. In this paper, we suggest secure management scheme of the private key file using a password of the encrypted private key file, and a USB Memory's hardware information. The private key file is protected safely even if the encrypted private key file is copied or exposed by a hacker. Also, if the password of the private key file is exposed, USB Memory's container ID, additional authentication factor keeps the private key file safe. Therefore, suggested scheme can improve the security of the external storage media for certificate.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.285-296
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• 2016

Recently, as the widespread use of Facebook through a smartphone or tablet PC, it has increased the threat that contains the malicious code to post a social attacks and comments that use personal information that has been published of Facebook. To solve these problems, Facebook is, by providing a security function, but would like to address these threats, in setting the security function, the security function of the user's convenience is not considered a properly there is a problem that is not in use. Thus, in this paper, on the basis of the information obtained via the cogTool, on Facebook security features, the user experience by presenting a method that can be quantitatively measured by this, the user convenience It classifies about Facebook security features to decrease.