• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.575-582
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• 2012

Mobile SNS like facebook is famous as an app which users cooperate others and share information without regard to time and place. But it is necessary to evaluate the mobile app accessibility in view of the disabled and the aged to check if they get appropriate interface service to use such a popular app. Mobile app accessibility is an indicator of equal opportunity to mobile app for all users regardless of cognitive and physical attribute. Therefore, this paper evaluates accessibility of facebook and kakaotalk mobile SNS, apprehend the status of conform to the manual, and suggest an improving way, based on 'mobile application accessibility guideline' announced by government and 'mobile application (Android) accessibiliy checking manual(v1.0)' by National Information society agency.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.61-68
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• 2019

Although the number of smartphone users is continuously increasing due to the advantage of being able to easily use most of the Internet services, the number of counterfeit applications is rapidly increasing and personal information stored in the smartphone is leaked to the outside. Because Android app was developed with Java language, it is relatively easy to create counterfeit apps if attacker performs the de-compilation process to reverse app by abusing the repackaging vulnerability. Although an obfuscation technique can be applied to prevent this, but most mobile apps are not adopted. Therefore, it is fundamentally impossible to block repackaging attacks on Android mobile apps. In addition, personal information stored in the smartphone is leaked outside because it does not provide a forgery self-verification procedure on installing an app in smartphone. In order to solve this problem, blockchain is used to implement a process of certificated application registration and a fake app identification and detection mechanism is proposed on Hyperledger Fabric framework.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.35-46
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• 2013

As mobile terminal environment gets matured, the use of Android platform based mobile terminals has been growing high. Recently, the number of attacks by malicious application is also increasing as Android platform is vulnerable to private information leakage in nature. Most of these malicious applications are easily distributed to general users through open market or internet and an attacker inserts malicious code into malicious app which could be harmful tool to steal private data and banking data such as SMS, contacts list, and public key certificate to a remote server. To cope with these security threats more actively, it is necessary to develop countermeasure system that enables to detect security vulnerability existing in mobile device and take an appropriate action to protect the system against malicious attacks. In this sense, this paper aggregates diverse system events from multiple mobile devices and also implements a system to detect attacks by malicious application.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.122-129
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• 2024

Though programming education has been stressed recently, the elementary, middle, and high school students are having trouble in programming education. Most programming environments for them are based on block coding, which hinders them from moving to text coding. The traditional PC environment has also troubles such as maintenance problems. In this situation, mobile applications can be considered as alternative programming environments. This paper addresses the design and implementation of coding applications for mobile devices. As a prototype, a Scheme interpreter mobile app is proposed, where Scheme is used for programming courses at MIT since it supports multi-paradigm programming. The implementation has the advantage of not consuming the network bandwidth since it is designed as a standalone application. According to the benchmark result, the execution time on Android devices, relative to that on a desktop, was 131% for the Derivative and 157% for the Tak. Further, the maximum execution times for the benchmark programs on the Android device were 19.8ms for the Derivative and 131.15ms for the Tak benchmark. This confirms that when selecting an Android device for programming education purposes, there are no significant constraints for training.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.947-948
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• 2015

IOT(Internet of things) is a technology to embed various sensors and communication features on diverse things such as home appliances, mobile devices, wearable computers and connect to the Internet and through this technology, the status of things connected to the network can be analyzed and controlled with various data. On the other hand, this paper suggests to develop a merchandise management app using Android-based barcode to systematically manage expiry date of various goods that we purchase in our daily life. Therefore, individual goods are recognized with mobile-based barcode and divided under each category. By additionally supporting the notification service to let us know about expire date, goods can be efficiently managed.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.617-624
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• 2014

Smart phone usage has increased exponentially and open source based Android OS occupy significant market share. However, various malicious applications that use the characteristic of Android threaten users. In this paper, we construct an efficient malicious application detector by using the principle component analysis and the incremental k nearest neighbor algorithm, which consider an required permission, of Android applications. The cross validation is exploited in order to find a critical parameter of the algorithm. For the performance evaluation of our approach, we simulate a real data set of Contagio Mobile.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.91-99
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• 2016

A security system in Android OS adopts sandbox and an permission model. In particular, the permission model operates the confirmation of installation time and all-or-nothing policy. Accordingly, the Android OS requires a user agreement for permission when installing an application, however there is very low level of user awareness for the permission. In this paper, the current status of permission requirement within mobile apps will be discovered, and the key inspection list with an appropriate method, when a mobile service provider autonomously inspects the violation of least privilege around financial companies, and its usefulness will be explored.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2022.11a
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• pp.902-904
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• 2022

스마트폰 사용자 수가 증가함에 따라 스미싱, 몸캠피싱, 메신저 피싱과 같은 정보통신망을 이용한 범죄가 큰 폭으로 증가하고 있다. 이러한 범죄 피해는 다양한 연령층에서 발생하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 국내 모바일 운영체제 점유율이 가장 높은 안드로이드 운영체제를 대상으로 하는 패킹된 악성 앱 언패킹을 수행하고 시그니처 기반 탐지 도구인 Yara 를 통해 악성 앱에 사용된 패커를 식별하는 통합 악성 앱 언패킹 시스템을 제공하여 악성 앱을 이용한 범죄 대응에 도움을 줄 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.17-24
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• 2022

Mobile malicious apps are increasing rapidly, and Android, which accounts for most of the global mobile OS market, is becoming a major target of mobile cyber security threats. Therefore, in order to cope with rapidly evolving malicious apps, there is a need for detection techniques of malicious apps using machine learning, one of artificial intelligence implementation technologies. In this paper, we propose a selected feature method using feature selection and feature extraction that can improve the detection performance of malicious apps. In the feature selection process, the detection performance improved according to the number of features, and the API showed relatively better detection performance than the permission. Also combining the two characteristics showed high precision of over 93% on average, confirming that the appropriate combination of characteristics could improve the detection performance.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.159-168
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• 2017

Smartphone malware has increased because Smartphone users has increased and smartphones are widely used in everyday life. Since 2012, Android has been the most mobile operating system. Owing to the open nature of Android, countless malware are in Android markets that seriously threaten Android security. Most of Android malware detection program does not detect malware to which bypass techniques apply and also does not detect unknown malware. In this paper, we propose lightweight method for detection of Android malware using static analysis and deep learning techniques. For experiments we crawl 7,000 apps from the Google Play Store and collect 6,120 malwares. The result show that proposed method can achieve 98.05% detection accuracy. Also, proposed method can detect about unknown malware families with good performance. On smartphones, the method requires 10 seconds for an analysis on average.