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Key Distribution Process for Encryption of SCADA Communication using Game Theory applied Multiagent System

  • Kim, Hak-Man;Kang, Dong-Joo
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.23 no.11
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    • pp.34-43
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    • 2009
  • SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) system has been used for remote measurement and control on the critical infrastructures as well as modem industrial facilities. As cyber attacks increase on communication networks, SCADA network has been also exposed to cyber security problems. Especially, SCADA systems of energy industry such as electric power, gas and oil are vulnerable to targeted cyber attack and terrorism Recently, many research efforts to solve the problems have made progress on SCADA network security. In this paper, flexible key distribution concept is proposed for improving the security of SCADA network using Multiagent System (MAS).

A Study on Estimation Method of Outage Cost caused by Vulnerabilities of SCADA System (SCADA 시스템의 보안취약성을 고려한 정전비용 산정기법에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Balho-H.;Kang, Dong-Joo
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.25 no.6
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    • pp.90-99
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    • 2011
  • As power industry evolves into Smart Grid scheme, previously closed power systems are being integrated into public communication networks. It increases the controllability and efficiency of the system, but also accompanies many cyber threats having existed in the Internet to the SCADA system. Therefore it is required to apply security countermeasures to the Smart Grid, which brings about investment costs. There have been few approaches to assess risks from cyber attack especially in electric power industry. So this paper proposes a methodology to assess quantitative impacts of various types of cyber attacks to a power system, and also shows the feasibility of the method through a case study.

Cyber-Resilience-based Virtual Honeypot Service: Framework Sketch and Feasibility Verification (사이버 탄력성 기반 가상 허니팟 서비스 프레임워크 구상 및 가능성 검증)

  • Cha, Byung Rae;Park, Sun;Kim, Jong Won
    • Smart Media Journal
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.65-76
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    • 2016
  • Cloud Computing has recently begun to emerge as a new attack target. The malice DDoS attacks are ongoing to delay and disturb the various services of the Cloud Computing. In this paper, we propose the Hornet-Cloud using security Honeypot technique and resources of Cloud Computing, define and design the concept of security functions about active low-interaction framework by cyber resilience simply. In addition, for virtual honeypot service, we simulated and vitrified the possibility of functions of the low-interaction vHoneypot using cyber resilience.

Cyberattack Tracing System Operational Architecture (사이버공격 추적시스템 운용아키텍처)

  • Ahn, Jae-hong
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.179-187
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    • 2023
  • APT cyber attacks have been a problem for over a past decade, but still remain a challenge today as attackers use more sophisticated techniques and the number of objects to be protected increases. 'Cyberattack Tracing System' allows analysts to find undetected attack codes that penetrated and hid in enterprises, and to investigate their lateral movement propagation activities. The enterprise is characterized by multiple networks and mass hosts (PCs/servers). This paper presents a data processing procedure that collects event data, generates a temporally and spatially extended provenance graph and cyberattack tracing paths. In each data process procedure phases, system design considerations are suggested. With reflecting the data processing procedure and the characteristics of enterprise environment, an operational architecture for CyberAttack Tracing System is presented. The operational architecture will be lead to the detailed design of the system.

A Survey for Vulnerability Attack and Defense Method of Satellite-Link Based Communication System

  • Isaac Sim;Jinwoo Jeong;Sangbom Yun;Yunsik Lim;Junghyun Seo
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.128-133
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    • 2023
  • Satellite based communication is networks in which users in a wide area can access without wired-based ground infrastructure. In particular, the need is emerging due to the recent Ukraine-Russia war. Satellite network systems acquire data that is difficult to observe on Earth as well as communication networks and are also used for research and development, which allows additional data to be produced. However, due to the nature of communication networks existing in outer space, certain vulnerabilities are revealed, and attacks based on them can be exposed. In this paper, we analyze vulnerabilities that may arise due to the nature of satellite communication networks and describes current research, countermeasures, and future research directions.

A Method for Preemptive Intrusion Detection and Protection Against DDoS Attacks (DDoS 공격에 대한 선제적 침입 탐지·차단 방안)

  • Kim, Dae Hwan;Lee, Soo Jin
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.157-167
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    • 2016
  • Task environment for enterprises and public institutions are moving into cyberspace-based environment and structing the LTE wireless network. The applications "App" operated in the LTE wireless network are mostly being developed with Android-based. But Android-based malwares are surging and they are the potential DDoS attacks. DDoS attack is a major information security threat and a means of cyber attacks. DDoS attacks are difficult to detect in advance and to defense effectively. To this end, a DMZ is set up in front of a network infrastructure and a particular server for defensive information security. Because There is the proliferation of mobile devices and apps, and the activation of android diversify DDoS attack methods. a DMZ is a limit to detect and to protect against DDoS attacks. This paper proposes an information security method to detect and Protect DDoS attacks from the terminal phase using a Preemptive military strategy concept. and then DDoS attack detection and protection app is implemented and proved its effectiveness by reducing web service request and memory usage. DDoS attack detection and protecting will ensure the efficiency of the mobile network resources. This method is necessary for a continuous usage of a wireless network environment for the national security and disaster control.

Automated Cyber Threat Emulation Based on ATT&CK for Cyber Security Training

  • Kim, Donghwa;Kim, Yonghyun;Ahn, Myung-Kil;Lee, Heejo
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.25 no.9
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    • pp.71-80
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    • 2020
  • As societies become hyperconnected, we need more cyber security experts. To this end, in this paper, based on the analysis results of the real world cyber attacks and the MITRE ATT&CK framework, we developed CyTEA that can model cyber threats and generate simulated cyber threats in a cyber security training system. In order to confirm whether the simulated cyber threat has the effectiveness of the actual cyber threat level, the simulation level was examined based on procedural, environmental, and consequential similarities. in addition, it was confirmed that the actual defense training using cyber simulation threats is the same as the expected defense training when using real cyber threats in the cyber security training system.

A New Bot Disinfection Method Based on DNS Sinkhole (DNS 싱크홀에 기반한 새로운 악성봇 치료 기법)

  • Kim, Young-Baek;Youm, Heung-Youl
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.18 no.6A
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    • pp.107-114
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    • 2008
  • The Bot is a kind of worm/virus that can be used to launch the distributed denial-of-service(DDoS) attacks or send massive amount of spam e-mails, etc. A lot of organizations make an effort to counter the Botnet's attacks. In Korea, we use DNS sinkhole system to protect from the Botnet's attack, while in Japan "so called" CCC(Cyber Clean Center) has been developed to protect from the Botnet's attacks. But in case of DNS sinkhole system, there is a problem since it cannot cure the Bot infected PCs themselves and in case of CCC there is a problem since only 30% of users with the Botnet-infected PCs can cooperate to cure themself. In this paper we propose a new method that prevent the Botnet's attacks and cure the Bot-infected PCs at the same time.

Intelligent & Predictive Security Deployment in IOT Environments

  • Abdul ghani, ansari;Irfana, Memon;Fayyaz, Ahmed;Majid Hussain, Memon;Kelash, Kanwar;fareed, Jokhio
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.12
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    • pp.185-196
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    • 2022
  • The Internet of Things (IoT) has become more and more widespread in recent years, thus attackers are placing greater emphasis on IoT environments. The IoT connects a large number of smart devices via wired and wireless networks that incorporate sensors or actuators in order to produce and share meaningful information. Attackers employed IoT devices as bots to assault the target server; however, because of their resource limitations, these devices are easily infected with IoT malware. The Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is one of the many security problems that might arise in an IoT context. DDOS attempt involves flooding a target server with irrelevant requests in an effort to disrupt it fully or partially. This worst practice blocks the legitimate user requests from being processed. We explored an intelligent intrusion detection system (IIDS) using a particular sort of machine learning, such as Artificial Neural Networks, (ANN) in order to handle and mitigate this type of cyber-attacks. In this research paper Feed-Forward Neural Network (FNN) is tested for detecting the DDOS attacks using a modified version of the KDD Cup 99 dataset. The aim of this paper is to determine the performance of the most effective and efficient Back-propagation algorithms among several algorithms and check the potential capability of ANN- based network model as a classifier to counteract the cyber-attacks in IoT environments. We have found that except Gradient Descent with Momentum Algorithm, the success rate obtained by the other three optimized and effective Back- Propagation algorithms is above 99.00%. The experimental findings showed that the accuracy rate of the proposed method using ANN is satisfactory.

An Experimental Environment for Simulation of Stealthy Deception Attack in CPS Using PLCitM (PLC in the Middle) (중간자 PLC를 이용한 CPS 은닉형 공격 실험환경 구축 방안)

  • Chang, Yeop;Lee, Woomyo;shin, Hyeok-Ki;Kim, Sinkyu
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.123-133
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    • 2018
  • Cyber-Physical System (CPS) is a system in which a physical system and a cyber system are strongly integrated. In order to operate the target physical system stably, the CPS constantly monitors the physical system through the sensor and performs control using the actuator according to the current state. If a malicious attacker performs a forgery attack on the measured values of the sensors in order to conceal their attacks, the cyber system operated based on the collected data can not recognize the current operation status of the physical system. This causes the delay of the response of the automation system and the operator, and then more damage will occur. To protect the CPS from increasingly sophisticated and targeted attacks, countermeasures must be developed that can detect stealthy deception attacks. However, in the CPS environment composed of various heterogeneous devices, the process of analyzing and demonstrating the vulnerability to actual field devices requires a lot of time. Therefore, in this study, we propose a method of constructing the experiment environment of the PLCitM (PLC in the middle) which can verify the performance of the techniques to detect the CPS stealthy deception attack and present the experimental results.