• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.41-47
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• 2006

Spyware is any technology that aids in gathering information about a person or organization with-out their knowledge. Software designed to serve advertising, known as adware, can usually be thought of as spyware as well because it almost invariably includes components for tracking and reporting user information. A piece of spyware and adware affect computers which can rapidly become infected with large numbers of spyware and adware components. Users frequently notice from un-wanted behavior and degradation of system performance, such as significant unwanted CPU activity, disk usage, and network traffic which thereby slows down legitimate uses of these resources. The presence of situation will continue because of rapid expansion of Internet usages. Therefore, security solutions, such as anti-adware and anti-spyware, for recovering these malfunction due to the malicious programs must be developed. However, studies on the malicious programs are still not sufficient. Accordingly, this paper has studied the malicious program techniques, based on the results of analysis of present adware and spyware techniques by employing collected samples, and presents efficient measures for blocking and remedying the malicious programs.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.433-441
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• 2021

Android applications are released across various categories, including productivity apps and games, and users are exposed to various applications and even malware depending on their usage patterns. On the other hand, most analysis engines train using existing datasets and do not reflect user patterns even if periodic updates are made. Thus, the detection rate for known malware is high, while types of malware such as adware are difficult to detect. In addition, existing engines incur increased service provider costs due to the cost of server farm, and the user layer suffers from problems where availability and real-timeness are not guaranteed. To address these problems, we propose an analysis system that performs on-device malware detection through transfer learning, which requires only one-time communication with the server. In addition, The system has a complete process on the device, including decompiler, which can distribute the load of the server system. As an evaluation result, it shows 90.3% accuracy without transfer learning, while the model transferred with adware catergories shows 95.1% of accuracy, which is 4.8% higher compare to original model.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.22 no.9
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• pp.358-368
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• 2022

Social media is a window for everyone, individuals, communities, and companies to spread ideas and promote trends and products. With these opportunities, challenges and problems related to security, privacy and rights arose. Also, the data accumulated from social media has become a fertile source for many analytics, inference, and experimentation with new technologies in the field of data science. In this chapter, emphasis will be given to methods of trend analysis, especially ensemble learning methods. Ensemble learning methods embrace the concept of cooperation between different learning methods rather than competition between them. Therefore, in this chapter, we will discuss the most important trends in ensemble learning and their applications in analysing social media data and anticipating the most important future trends.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.29 no.7
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• pp.1173-1183
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• 2016

In this paper, we proposed an information security risk index to diagnose users' malware infection situations (such as computer virus and adware) by gathering data from KT network systems. To develop the information security risk index, we used the analytic hierarchy process methodology and estimated the risk weights of malware code types using the judgments of experts. The control chart could be used effectively to forecast the information security risk for the proposed information security risk index data.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.94-99
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• 2016

Application layer attacks have for years posed an ever-serious threat to network security, since they always come after a technically legitimate connection has been established. In recent years, cyber criminals have turned to fully exploiting the web as a medium of communication to launch a variety of forbidden or illicit activities by spreading malicious automated software (auto-ware) such as adware, spyware, or bots. When this malicious auto-ware infects a network, it will act like a robot, mimic normal behavior of web access, and bypass the network firewall or intrusion detection system. Besides that, in a private and large network, with huge Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) traffic generated each day, communication behavior identification and classification of auto-ware is a challenge. In this paper, based on a previous study, analysis of auto-ware communication behavior, and with the addition of new features, a method for classification of HTTP auto-ware communication is proposed. For that, a Not Only Structured Query Language (NoSQL) database is applied to handle large volumes of unstructured HTTP requests captured every day. The method is tested with real HTTP traffic data collected through a proxy server of a private network, providing good results in the classification and detection of suspicious auto-ware web access.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.131-141
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• 2009

An increasing variety of malware, such as worms, spyware and adware, threatens both personal and business computing. Remotely controlled bot networks of compromised systems are growing quickly. This paper proposes an intrusion detection system based outflow traffic analysis. Many research efforts and commercial products have focused on preventing intrusion by filtering known exploits or unknown ones exploiting known vulnerabilities. Complementary to these solutions, the proposed IDS can detect intrusion of unknown new mal ware before their signatures are widely distributed. The proposed IDS is consists of a outflow detector, user monitor, process monitor and network monitor. To infer user intent, the proposed IDS correlates outbound connections with user-driven input at the process level under the assumption that user intent is implied by user-driven input. As a complement to existing prevention system, proposed IDS decreases the danger of information leak and protects computers and networks from more severe damage.