• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
• /
• v.25 no.3
• /
• pp.65-72
• /
• 2020

With the development of information technology and the growth of the scale of system and network, cyber threats and crimes continue to increase. To cope with these threats, cybersecurity training based on actual attacks and defenses is required. However, cybersecurity training requires expert analysis and attack performance, which is inefficient in terms of cost and time. In this paper, we propose a cyber attack simulator that automatically executes attack techniques. This simulator generates attack scenarios by combining attack techniques modeled to be implemented and executes the attack by sequentially executing the derived scenarios. In order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed attack simulator, we experimented by setting an example attack goal and scenarios in a real environment. The attack simulator successfully performed five attack techniques to gain administrator privileges.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
• /
• 2007.11b
• /
• pp.294-295
• /
• 2007

The importance of security is increased in power industry. Recently Power IT networks are attacked in cyber space and demage of attack become increased. For solving the problems, many research studies for network security enhancement are globally carried out in the world. In this paper, we introduce recent cyber attack cases, efforts for enhancing cyber safeness and put into perspective of potential security areas for power IT areas.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
• /
• 2020.07a
• /
• pp.111-114
• /
• 2020

우리나라에 대한 사이버 공격의 배후로 추정되는 북한의 사이버조직에 우리는 얼마나 알고 있을까? 사이버 공간의 특성상 공격 흔적이 남지 않기에 언론사들은 북한의 사이버조직과 관련하여 일관된 정보를 거의 제공하지 못하고 있다. 따라서 갈수록 진화하는 북한의 사이버 공격에 효과적으로 대비하기 위해 본 논문에서는 비록 인터넷에 공개된 자료(논문, 기사 등)라 할지라도 이를 통해서 북한 사이버조직 현황 및 주요 공격사례를 중심으로 관련 정보를 살펴보고자 한다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
• /
• v.49 no.3
• /
• pp.484-494
• /
• 2017

In industrial plants such as nuclear power plants, system operations are performed by embedded controllers orchestrated by Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) software. A targeted attack (also termed a control aware attack) on the controller/SCADA software can lead a control system to operate in an unsafe mode or sometimes to complete shutdown of the plant. Such malware attacks can result in tremendous cost to the organization for recovery, cleanup, and maintenance activity. SCADA systems in operational mode generate huge log files. These files are useful in analysis of the plant behavior and diagnostics during an ongoing attack. However, they are bulky and difficult for manual inspection. Data mining techniques such as least squares approximation and computational methods can be used in the analysis of logs and to take proactive actions when required. This paper explores methodologies and algorithms so as to develop an effective monitoring scheme against control aware cyber attacks. It also explains soft computation techniques such as the computational geometric method and least squares approximation that can be effective in monitor design. This paper provides insights into diagnostic monitoring of its effectiveness by attack simulations on a four-tank model and using computation techniques to diagnose it. Cyber security of instrumentation and control systems used in nuclear power plants is of paramount importance and hence could be a possible target of such applications.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
• /
• v.4 no.2
• /
• pp.39-47
• /
• 2008

As internet is spreaded widely, the number of cyber terror using hacking and virus is increased. Also the international cyber terror to the national key organizations go on increasing. If the national key organizations is attacked by the attack, the national paper, document and records are exposed to the other nations. The national paper, document and records can give damage to the nation. Especially, the unknown attack can give much damage to the nation. Therefore, this paper suggested a countermeasures on the cyber terror for the national key organizations provided the inner of the organization is safe. The uneffective item and invasion privacy item are included among the countermeasures. However the countermeasures can protect only one cyber terror to the national key organizations.

• Journal of Information Technology Services
• /
• v.15 no.1
• /
• pp.67-79
• /
• 2016

This study aims to present the necessary elements that should be part of South Korea's National Defense Strategy against the recent North Korean cyber-attacks. The elements proposed in this study also reflect the recent trend of cyber-attack incidents that are happening in the Unites States and other countries and have been classified into the three levels of cyber incidents: cyberwarfare, cyberterrorism and cybercrime. As such, the elements proposed are presented in accordance with this classification system. In order to properly take into account the recent trend of cyber-attacks perpetrated by North Korea, this paper analyzed the characteristics of recent North Korean cyber-attacks as well as the countermeasures and responses of South Korea. Moreover, by making use of case studies of cyber-attack incidents by foreign nations that threaten national security, the response measures at a national level can be deduced and applied as in this study. Thus, the authors of this study hope that the newly proposed elements here within will help to strengthen the level of Korea's cyber security against foreign attacks, specifically that of North Korea such as the KHNP hacking incidents and so on. It is hoped that further damage such as leakage of confidential information, invasion of privacy and physical intimidation can be mitigated.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
• /
• v.53 no.10
• /
• pp.3319-3326
• /
• 2021

As a form of industrial control systems (ICS), nuclear instrumentation and control (I&C) systems have been digitalized increasingly. This has raised in turn cyber security concerns. Cyber security for ICS is important because cyber-attacks against ICS can cause not only equipment damage and loss of production but also personal and public safety hazards unlike in general IT environments. Numerous risk analyses have been carried out to enhance the safety of ICS and recently, many studies related to the cyber security of ICS are being conducted. Many existing risk analyses and cyber security studies have considered safety and cyber security separately. However, both safety and cyber security perspectives should be considered when analyzing risks for complex and critical ICS facilities such as nuclear power plants (NPPs). In this paper, the STPA-SafeSec methodology is selected to consider both safety and security perspectives when performing a risk analysis for NPPs in order to assess impacts on the safety by cyber-attacks against the digital I&C systems. The STPA-SafeSec methodology was applied to a test-bed system that simulates a condensate water (CD) system in an NPP. The process of the application up to the development of mitigation strategies is described in detail.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
• /
• 2004.05b
• /
• pp.776-779
• /
• 2004

With the rapid progress of information technique, it is getting more difficult to protect information systems from cyber terrorism, because of bugs and vulnerabilities of software and the properties of cyberspace such as anonymity. furthermore cyber terror techniques are highly developed and complicated and their use for a malicious intent and a military purpose are increasing recently. Therefore a study of warfare attack technology on the cyber space is necessary for establishing trusted society and further national security. Specially, worms/viruses are becoming a more common occurrence on the cyber space. Also, The worm caused a great deal of damage to the large number of networks around the world in a very short period of time. Therefore, we will describe worms/viruses in the warfare attack technique in this paper.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
• /
• v.15 no.2
• /
• pp.226-233
• /
• 2012

Recently, Like we saw with 3.4 DDoS Cyber Terror, a behavior of cyber terror becomes increasingly more complicated, sophisticated and larger, and there has been largely damage on industry, the general economy. For responding cyber terrors which occur in the future, we should recognize security holes of system which isn't exposed yet before attacker in advance as we anticipate and implement new technique of cyber attack which not exist hitherto. We design and implement a new technique of cyber attack; it seems to us that a server denies agent' service by altering value of registry in windows system. Network connections of agent are restricted to the new technique we suggest as the a value of registry is changed to a less value than a necessary value and there has happened packet loss by attacker.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
• /
• v.2 no.12
• /
• pp.561-568
• /
• 2013

Instrumentation and control system in nuclear power plant performs protecting, controling and monitoring safety operation of Nuclear Power Plant. As cyber attack to the control equipment of instrumentation and control system can cause reactor shutdown and radiation release, it is required to design the instrumentation and control system considering cyber security in accordance with regulatory guides and industrial standards. In this paper, we proposed a design method of uni-directional communication structure which is required in the design of defense-in-depth model according to regulatory guides and industrial standards and we implemented a communication board with the proposed method. This communication board was tested in various test environments and test items and we concluded it can provide uni-directional communication structure required to design of defense-in-depth model against cyber attack by analyzing the results. The proposed method and implemented communication board were applied in the design of SMART (system-integrated modular advanced reactor) I&C (instrumentation and control) systems.