• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.2149-2170
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• 2017

Application-layer Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack is one of the leading security problems in the Internet. In recent years, the attack strategies of application-layer DDoS have rapidly developed. This paper introduces a new attack strategy named Path Vulnerabilities-Based (PVB) attack. In this attack strategy, an attacker first analyzes the contents of web pages and subsequently measures the actual response time of each webpage to build a web-resource-weighted-directed graph. The attacker uses a Top M Longest Path algorithm to find M DDoS vulnerable paths that consume considerable resources when sequentially accessing the pages following any of those paths. A detection mechanism for such attack is also proposed and discussed. A finite-state machine is used to model the dynamical processes for the state of the user's session and monitor the PVB attacks. Numerical results based on real-traffic simulations reveal the efficiency of the attack strategy and the detection mechanism.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.814-816
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• 2002

최근 급증하고 있는 인터넷 사용자들을 위한 인터 서비스 업체들의 증가와 더불어 악의적인 공격자의공격 또한 증가하고 있다. 이러한 공격으로 인한 인터넷 업체들에게 치명적일 수 있는 신용에 대한 불신임과 서비스의 불안정이라는 피해는 기업의 이미지를 실추시키는 등 막대한 영향을 끼칠 수도 있다. 이러한 악의적인 공격 형태 중 가장 최근 가장 빈번하게 그리고 큰 피해를 주는 공격형태가 DoS(Denial-of-Service)[1]공격이다. 그러나 DoS공격에 대한 적당한 대응방법이 아직까지 미비한 상태이고, 공격에 대응하여 방어한다고 해도 그 진원지를 찾아내지 못한다면 추후 동일한 공격자(attack)에 의해 재차 공격을 받을 가능성을 배제할 수 없는 실정이다. 이에 본 논문은 DoS공격에 대한 적당한 대응하는 하나의 방법으로 공격 경로(attack path)를 찾아내고 더 나아가 공격 진원지(attack origin)의 MAC address를 알아냄으로써 공격의 진원지를 찾아내는 방법을 제안한다.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.125-132
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• 2013

In this paper, We send DDoS(Distributed Denial of Service) attack traffic to real homepages in real networks. We analyze the results of DDoS attack and propose mitigation method against DDoS Attacks. In order to analyze the results of DDoS Attacks, We group three defense level by administrative subjects: Top level defense, Middle level defense, Bottom level defense. Also We group four attack methods by feature. We describe the results that average of attack success rate on defense level and average of attack success rate on attack categories about 48ea homepages and 2ea exceptional cases. Finally, We propose mitigation method against DDoS attack.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.1B
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• pp.8-19
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose the NCP (Network Control Platform)-based defense mechanism against DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks in order to guarantee the transmission of normal traffic and prevent the flood of abnormal traffic. We also define defense modules, the threshold and packet drop-rate used for the response against DDoS attacks. NCP analyzes whether DDoS attacks are occurred or not based on the flow and queue information collected from SR (Source Router) and VR (Victim Router). Attack packets are dopped according to drop rate decided from NCP. The performance is simulated using OPNET and evaluated in terms of the queue size of both SR and VR, the transmitted volumes of legitimate and attack packets at SR.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.2651-2673
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• 2019

In order to detect Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, victim-side detection methods are used popularly such as static threshold-based method and machine learning-based method. However, as DoS attacking methods become more sophisticated, these methods reveal some natural disadvantages such as the late detection and the difficulty of tracing back attackers. Recently, in order to mitigate these drawbacks, source-side DoS detection methods have been researched. But, the source-side DoS detection methods have limitations if the volume of attack traffic is relatively very small and it is blended into legitimate traffic. Especially, with the subtle attack traffic, DoS detection methods may suffer from high false positive, considering legitimate traffic as attack traffic. In this paper, we propose an effective source-side DoS detection method with traffic seasonality aware adaptive threshold. The threshold of detecting DoS attack is adjusted adaptively to the fluctuated legitimate traffic in order to detect subtle attack traffic. Moreover, by understanding the seasonality of legitimate traffic, the threshold can be updated more carefully even though subtle attack happens and it helps to achieve low false positive. The extensive evaluation with the real traffic logs presents that the proposed method achieves very high detection rate over 90% with low false positive rate down to 5%.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.344-365
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• 2020

Providing security has been always on priority in all areas of computing and communication, and for the systems that are low on computing power, implementing appropriate and efficient security mechanism has been a continuous challenge for the researchers. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system is such an environment, which requires the design and implementation of efficient security mechanism. Earlier, the security protocols for RFID based on hash functions and symmetric key cryptography have been proposed. But, due to high strength and requirement of less key size in elliptic curve cryptography, the focus of researchers has been on designing efficient security protocol for RFID based on elliptic curves. In this paper, an efficient elliptic curve signcryption based security protocol for RFID has been proposed, which provides mutual authentication, confidentiality, non-repudiation, integrity, availability, forward security, anonymity, and scalability. Moreover, the proposed protocol successfully provides resistance from replay attack, impersonation attack, location tracking attack, de-synchronization attack, denial of service attack, man-in-the-middle attack, cloning attack, and key-compromise attack. Results have revealed that the proposed protocol is efficient than the other related protocols as it takes less computational time and storage cost, especially for the tag, making it ideal to be used for RFID systems.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.45-53
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• 2006

It has been proposed that several RFID authentication protocols based on hash chain. Status based authentication protocol and challenge-response based authentication protocol are secured against location tracking attacks, spoofing attacks, replay attacks, traffic analysis attacks but are vulnerable to Dos attacks. RFID authentication protocol with strong resistance against traceability and denial of service attack is secured against location tracking attack, spoofing attacks, replay attacks, DoS attacks but are vulnerable to traffic analysis attacks. The present study suggests a more secure and lightweight RFID authentication protocol which is combining the advantages of hash-chain authentication protocol and RFID authentication protocol with strong resistance against traceability and denial of service attack. The results of the secure analysts for a proposed protocol are illustrated that it is secured against location tracking attacks, spoofing attacks, replay attacks, traffic analysis attacks, Dos attacks and is a lightweight operation between server and tag.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.659-666
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• 2012

Recently, cloud computing service has become a rising issue in terms of utilizing sources more efficiently and saving costs. However, the service still has some limitations to be popularized because it lacks the verification towards security safety. In particular, the possibility to induce Denial of service is increasing as it is used as Zombie PC with exposure to security weakness of Guest OS's. This paper suggests how cloud system, which is implemented by Xen, detects intrusion caused by Denial of service using hypercall. Through the experiment, the method suggested by K-means and EM shows that two data, collected for 2 mins, 5 mins, 10mins and 20mins each, are distinguished 90% when collected for 2mins and 5mins while collected over 10mins are distinguished 100% successfully.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.431-434
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• 2011

Password-based user-authentication schemes have been widely used when users access a server to avail internet services. Multiserver password-authentication schemes enable remote users to obtain service from multiple servers without separately registering with each server. In 2008, Jia-Lun Tsai proposed an improved and efficient password-authenticated key agreement scheme for a multiserver architecture based on Chang-Lee's scheme proposed in 2004. However, we found that Tsai's scheme does not provide forward secrecy and is weak to insider impersonation and denial of service attacks. In this article, we describe the drawbacks of Tsai's scheme and provide a countermeasure to satisfy the forward secrecy property.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2013

The cloud computing is technology which gives flexible and solid infrastructure to IT environment. With this technology multiple computing environment can be consolidated in to a single server so that maximize system resource utilization. Better processing power can be achieved with less system resource. IT manager can cope with increasing unnecessary cost for additional server and management cost as well. This means a enterprise is able to provide services with better quality and create new services with surplus resource. The time required for recovery from system failure will be reduced from days to minutes. Enhanced availability and continuity of enterprise business minimize the codt and the risk produced by service discontinuity. In this paper, we propose framework architecture that is strong against denial-of-service attack.