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Study on Remote Data Acquisition Methods Using OAuth Protocol of Android Operating System (안드로이드 환경의 OAuth 프로토콜을 이용한 원격지 데이터 수집 방법 연구)

  • Nam, Gi-hoon;Gong, Seong-hyeon;Seok, Byoung-jin;Lee, Changhoon
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.111-122
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    • 2018
  • Using OAuth protocol, third-party applications on the Android operating system use user's credentials or access tokens that have access authority on user's resources to gain user's account and personal information from account information providers. These credentials and token information are stored in the device by the OAuth data management method provided by the Android operating system. If this information is leaked, the attacker can use the leaked credential and token data to get user's personal data without login. This feature enables the digital forensic investigator to collect data directly from the remote server of the services used by the target of investigation in terms of collecting evidence data. Evidence data collected at a remote location can be a basis for secondary warranties and provide evidence which can be very important evidence when an attacker attempts to destroy evidence, such as the removal of an application from an Android device. In this paper, we analyze the management status of OAuth tokens in various Android operating system and device environment, and show how to collect data of various third party applications using it. This paper introduces a method of expanding the scope of data acquisition by collecting remote data of the services used by the subject of investigation from the viewpoint of digital forensics.

Hacking and Security of Encrypted Access Points in Wireless Network

  • Kwon, Se-Hwan;Park, Dea-Woo
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.156-161
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    • 2012
  • An increasing number of people who use a smart phone or tablet PC are accessing wireless networks in public facilities including cafes and shopping centers. For example, iPhones and Android Phones have been available since 2010. However, security incidents may occur through all sorts of malicious code infection of users' personal information during the use of an insecure wireless network. In this paper, we will describe the Wi-Fi protected access (WPA) and WPA2 encryption systems used to access a wireless network from a smart phone and tablet PC, and demonstrate the access point (AP) hacking process in a wireless network to which a password is applied on the basis of the analyzed WPA and WPA2 passwords. We will analyze the method of successful AP hacking and propose an approach to enhancing wireless LAN security. This study will contribute to enhancing the security and stability of wireless networks.

A Test Scenario Generation Technique based on Task Information for Interaction Testing among Android Components (안드로이드 컴포넌트 상호작용 테스팅을 위한 태스크 정보기반 테스트 시나리오 생성 기법)

  • Baek, Tae-San;Lee, Woo Jin
    • Journal of KIISE
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    • v.44 no.6
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    • pp.595-600
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    • 2017
  • Android applications are composed of one or more components. The components within an application or several applications may interact with each other primarily through intents. Such interactions may cause security and reliability issues such as broadcast theft, activity hijacking, and intent spoofing. These problems need to be resolved through testing techniques using various interaction test scenarios before an application gets launched. However, with the existing test scenario generation approach, some infeasible test scenarios may be generated since they do not consider the re-execution order based on activity setting when pressing the back button. This paper proposes a test case generation technique which removes infeasible interaction paths by utilizing the activity stack information.

Android-based Implementation of Remote Monitoring System for Industrial Gas Turbines (안드로이드 기반 산업용 가스터빈 원격 모니터링 시스템 구현)

  • Choi, Joon-Hyuck;Lee, Dong-Ik
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.369-376
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    • 2018
  • This paper presents an android-based implementation of real-time remote monitoring system for industrial gas turbines. The use of remote monitoring techniques can be beneficial in terms of not only the reduction of monitoring cost but also the earlier detection of abnormal status. In order to achieve the ability of protecting sensitive information from unauthorized persons, the proposed system supports secure transmissions using the RSA(Rivest Shamir Adleman) algorithm. In the event of abnormal situation on the gas turbine, the remote monitoring system generates an alarm to attract the user's attention by exploiting a push-message technique. The proposed system has been verified through a series of experiments with an experimental setup including a virtual data generator.

A Consecutive Motion and Situation Recognition Mechanism to Detect a Vulnerable Condition Based on Android Smartphone

  • Choi, Hoan-Suk;Lee, Gyu Myoung;Rhee, Woo-Seop
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.1-17
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    • 2020
  • Human motion recognition is essential for user-centric services such as surveillance-based security, elderly condition monitoring, exercise tracking, daily calories expend analysis, etc. It is typically based on the movement data analysis such as the acceleration and angular velocity of a target user. The existing motion recognition studies are only intended to measure the basic information (e.g., user's stride, number of steps, speed) or to recognize single motion (e.g., sitting, running, walking). Thus, a new mechanism is required to identify the transition of single motions for assessing a user's consecutive motion more accurately as well as recognizing the user's body and surrounding situations arising from the motion. Thus, in this paper, we collect the human movement data through Android smartphones in real time for five targeting single motions and propose a mechanism to recognize a consecutive motion including transitions among various motions and an occurred situation, with the state transition model to check if a vulnerable (life-threatening) condition, especially for the elderly, has occurred or not. Through implementation and experiments, we demonstrate that the proposed mechanism recognizes a consecutive motion and a user's situation accurately and quickly. As a result of the recognition experiment about mix sequence likened to daily motion, the proposed adoptive weighting method showed 4% (Holding time=15 sec), 88% (30 sec), 6.5% (60 sec) improvements compared to static method.

A study on macro detection using information of touch events in Android mobile game environment (안드로이드 모바일 게임 환경에서의 터치 이벤트 정보를 이용한 매크로 탐지 기법 연구)

  • Kim, Jeong-hyeon;Lee, Sang-jin
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.25 no.5
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    • pp.1123-1129
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    • 2015
  • Macro(automatic hunting) of mobile game is a program that touch the screen by defined rules like a game bot in PC online games, and it is used by make various ways like android application or windows application program. This gives honest users deprivation and make to lose their interest. Finally they would leave the game and gradually game life would be shorten. Although many studies to prevent these problems in PC online game are conducted, applying mobile game to PC's way is difficult because mobile games are limited to use the network and device performance is different with PC. In this paper, we propose a framework for macro detection by using the touch event information. A touch event on the mobile game is a necessary control command to the game. Because macro touches the screen with the same pattern, there is a difference between normal user's behavior and macro's operation. In mobile games that casual games are mostly, Touch event is the best difference that identify normal user against macro for a short period of time. As a result of detecting macros used in real mobile game by using the proposed framework it showed 100% accuracy and 0% false positive rate.

Signal and Telegram Security Messenger Digital Forensic Analysis study in Android Environment (안드로이드 환경에서 Signal과 Telegram 보안 메신저 디지털 포렌식분석 연구)

  • Jae-Min Kwon;Won-Hyung Park;Youn-sung Choi
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.13-20
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    • 2023
  • This study conducted a digital forensic analysis of Signal and Telegram, two secure messengers widely used in the Android environment. As mobile messengers currently play an important role in daily life, data management and security within these apps have become very important issues. Signal and Telegram, among others, are secure messengers that are highly reliable among users, and they safely protect users' personal information based on encryption technology. However, much research is still needed on how to analyze these encrypted data. In order to solve these problems, in this study, an in-depth analysis was conducted on the message encryption of Signal and Telegram and the database structure and encryption method in Android devices. In the case of Signal, we were able to successfully decrypt encrypted messages that are difficult to access from the outside due to complex algorithms and confirm the contents. In addition, the database structure of the two messenger apps was analyzed in detail and the information was organized into a folder structure and file format that could be used at any time. It is expected that more accurate and detailed digital forensic analysis will be possible in the future by applying more advanced technology and methodology based on the analyzed information. It is expected that this research will help increase understanding of secure messengers such as Signal and Telegram, which will open up possibilities for use in various aspects such as personal information protection and crime prevention.

One Time Password-Based SEED Algorithm for IoT Systems (IoT 시스템을 위한 시간 동기화 방식 기반 SEED 알고리즘)

  • Lee, Sung-Won;Park, Seung-Min;Sim, Kwee-Bo
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.22 no.9
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    • pp.766-772
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    • 2016
  • Recent advances in networking and computers, especially internet of things (IoT) technologies, have improved the quality of home life and industrial sites. However, the security vulnerability of IoT technologies causes life-threatening issues and information leakage concerns. Studies regarding security algorithms are being conducted. In this paper, we proposed SEED algorithms based on one time passwords (OTPs). The specified server sent time data to the client every 10 seconds. The client changed the security key using time data and generated a ciphertext by combining the changed security key and the matrix. We applied the SEED algorithms with enhanced security to Linux-based embedded boards and android smart phones, then conducted a door lock control experiment (door lock & unlock). In this process, the power consumed for decryption was measured. The power consumption of the OTP-based algorithm was measured as 0.405-0.465W. The OTP-based algorithm didn't show any difference from the existing SEED algorithms, but showed a better performance than the existing algorithms.

Analysis of Global Research Trend on Information Security (정보보안에 대한 연구 트렌드 분석)

  • Kim, Won-pil
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.1110-1116
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    • 2015
  • This paper analyzes global research trend on information security. All technical fields based on information requires security so that discovering technologies (technical terms) which are developing newly or dramatically is able to guide the future direction of the field of information security. In this paper, the ultimate of this research is to figure out the technologies related to information security and to forecast the future through understanding their trends. The paper, as a beginning for the analysis on macroscopic viewpoint, contains measurement of yearly relatedness between technical terms from 2001 to 2014 by using temporal co-occurrence and interpretation of its meaning through comparing the relatedness with trends of top-related technical terms. And to conclude, we could find that Android platform, Big data, Internet of things, Mobile technologies, and Cloud computing are emerging technologies on information security.

A Study of Attack Scenario using Android Vulnerabilities (안드로이드 취약점을 이용한 공격 시나리오 연구)

  • Park, Jae-kyung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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    • 2015.01a
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    • pp.267-269
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    • 2015
  • 본 논문에서는 고성능 컴퓨팅 시스템의 성능 향상을 위한 효율적인 동적 작업부하 균등화 정책을 제안한다. 이 정책은 시스템 자원인 CPU와 메모리를 효율적으로 사용하여 고성능 컴퓨팅 시스템의 처리량을 최대화하고, 각 작업의 수행시간을 최소화한다. 또한 이 정책은 수행중인 작업의 메모리 요구량과 각 노드의 부하 상태를 파악하여 작업을 동적으로 할당한다. 이때 작업을 할당 받은 노드가 과부하 상태가 되면 다른 노드로 작업을 이주시켜 각 노드의 작업부하를 균등하게 유지함으로써 작업의 대기시간을 줄이고, 각 작업의 수행시간을 단축한다. 본 논문에서는 시뮬레이션을 통하여 제안하는 동적 작업부하 균등화 정책이 기존의 메모리 기반의 작업부하 균등화 정책에 비해 고성능 컴퓨팅 시스템의 성능 향상 면에서 우수함을 보인다.

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