• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권9호
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• pp.3322-3347
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• 2021

Cloud Storage is the primary component of many businesses on cloud. Majority of the enterprises today are adopting a multicloud strategy to keep away from vendor lock-in and to optimize cost. Auditing schemes are used to ascertain the integrity of cloud data. Of these schemes, only the Provable Data Possession schemes (PDP) are resilient to key-exposure. These PDP schemes are devised using Public Key Infrastructure (PKI-) based cryptography, Identity-based cryptography, etc. PKI-based systems suffer from certificate-related communication/computational complexities. The Identity-based schemes deal with the exposure of only the auditing secret key (audit key). But with the exposure of both the audit key and the secret key used to update the audit key, the auditing process itself becomes a complete failure. So, an Identity-based PDP scheme with Parallel Key-Insulation is proposed for multiple cloud storage. It reduces the risk of exposure of both the audit key and the secret key used to update the audit key. It preserves the data privacy from the Third Party Auditor, secure against malicious Cloud Service Providers and facilitates batch auditing. The resilience to key-exposure is proved using the CDH assumption. Compared to the existing Identity-based multicloud schemes, it is efficient in integrity verification.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제21권9호
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• pp.203-211
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• 2021

Image tampering detection and localization have become an active area of research in the field of digital image forensics in recent times. This is due to the widespread of malicious image tampering. This study presents a new method for image tampering detection and localization that combines the advantages of dilated convolution, residual network, and UNET Architecture. Using the UNET architecture as a backbone, we built the proposed network from two kinds of residual units, one for the encoder path and the other for the decoder path. The residual units help to speed up the training process and facilitate information propagation between the lower layers and the higher layers which are often difficult to train. To capture global image tampering artifacts and reduce the computational burden of the proposed method, we enlarge the receptive field size of the convolutional kernels by adopting dilated convolutions in the residual units used in building the proposed network. In contrast to existing deep learning methods, having a large number of layers, many network parameters, and often difficult to train, the proposed method can achieve excellent performance with a fewer number of parameters and less computational cost. To test the performance of the proposed method, we evaluate its performance in the context of four benchmark image forensics datasets. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms existing methods and could be potentially used to enhance image tampering detection and localization.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제42권6호
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• pp.976-986
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• 2020

Internet of Things (IoT) is considered the future network to support wireless communications. To realize an IoT network, sufficient spectrum should be allocated for the rapidly increasing IoT devices. Through cognitive radio, unlicensed IoT devices exploit cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) to opportunistically access a licensed spectrum without causing harmful interference to licensed primary users (PUs), thereby effectively improving the spectrum utilization. However, an open access cognitive IoT allows abnormal IoT devices to undermine the CSS process. Herein, we first establish a hard-combining attack model according to the malicious behavior of falsifying sensing data. Subsequently, we propose a weighted sequential hypothesis test (WSHT) to increase the PU detection accuracy and decrease the sampling number, which comprises the data transmission status-trust evaluation mechanism, sensing data availability, and sequential hypothesis test. Finally, simulation results show that when various attacks are encountered, the requirements of the WSHT are less than those of the conventional WSHT for a better detection performance.

• 정보보호학회논문지
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.3-13
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• 2006

초고속 인터넷 망의 확충으로 인터넷을 이용한 정보전달이 보편화되고, 전자우편은 많은 양의 자료를 빠르고 편리하게 송수신 할 수 있는 가장 보편적인 통신 수단이 되었다. 하지만 정크메일의 수신빈도와 그로 인한 피해가 갈수록 높아져 그 문제가 심각한 수준에 이르게 되었다. 더구나 근래의 정크메일은 시스템을 공격하기 위한 바이러스나 해킹 도구를 전파하는 수단으로 이용되어 컴퓨터 침해 사고의 심각한 원인으로 지적되고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 실제 상황에서 유입되는 정크메일의 로그 분석을 통하여 그 특징을 분석한 후 FQDN 확인과 개인별 격리처리를 이용한 차단 시스템을 구현하였고 성능을 평가하였다.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제20권7호
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• pp.107-117
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• 2022

Purpose: The scope of forensic investigations serves to identify malicious activities, including leakage of crucial corporate information. The investigations also identify security lapses in available networks. The purpose of the present study is to explore how to block distribution channels to protect illegal leakage in supply chain through digital forensic method. Research design, data and methodology: The present study conducted the qualitative textual analysis and its data collection process entails five steps: identifying and collecting data, determining coding categories, coding the content, checking validity and reliability, and analyzing and presenting the results. This methodology is a significant research method due to its high quality of previous resources. Results: Applying previous literature analysis to the results of this study, the author figured out that there are four solutions as an evidences to block distribution channels, preventing illegal leakage regarding company information. The following subtitles show clear solutions: (1) Communicate with Stakeholders, (2) Preventing and addressing illegal leakage, (3) Victims of Data Breach, (4) Focusing Solely on Technical Teams. Conclusion: There are difficult scenarios that continue to introduce difficult questions surrounding engagement with digital evidence. Consequently, it is important to enhance data handling to provide answers for organizations that suffer due to illegal leakages of sensitive information.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권12호
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• pp.4308-4325
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• 2021

The importance and necessity of artificial intelligence, particularly machine learning, has recently been emphasized. In fact, artificial intelligence, such as intelligent surveillance cameras and other security systems, is used to solve various problems or provide convenience, providing solutions to problems that humans traditionally had to manually deal with one at a time. Among them, information security is one of the domains where the use of artificial intelligence is especially needed because the frequency of occurrence and processing capacity of dangerous codes exceeds the capabilities of humans. Therefore, this study intends to examine the definition of artificial intelligence and machine learning, its execution method, process, learning algorithm, and cases of utilization in various domains, particularly the cases and contents of artificial intelligence technology used in the field of information security. Based on this, this study proposes a method to apply machine learning technology to the method of classifying and detecting malware that has rapidly increased in recent years. The proposed methodology converts software programs containing malicious codes into images and creates training data suitable for machine learning by preparing data and augmenting the dataset. The model trained using the images created in this manner is expected to be effective in classifying and detecting malware.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권8호
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• pp.2101-2123
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• 2023

Recent studies have shown that the neural network-based binary code similarity detection technology performs well in vulnerability mining, plagiarism detection, and malicious code analysis. However, existing cross-architecture methods still suffer from insufficient feature characterization and low discrimination accuracy. To address these issues, this paper proposes a cross-architecture binary function similarity detection method based on composite feature model (SDCFM). Firstly, the binary function is converted into vector representation according to the proposed composite feature model, which is composed of instruction statistical features, control flow graph structural features, and application program interface calling behavioral features. Then, the composite features are embedded by the proposed hierarchical embedding network based on a graph neural network. In which, the block-level features and the function-level features are processed separately and finally fused into the embedding. In addition, to make the trained model more accurate and stable, our method utilizes the embeddings of predecessor nodes to modify the node embedding in the iterative updating process of the graph neural network. To assess the effectiveness of composite feature model, we contrast SDCFM with the state of art method on benchmark datasets. The experimental results show that SDCFM has good performance both on the area under the curve in the binary function similarity detection task and the vulnerable candidate function ranking in vulnerability search task.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.1466-1488
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• 2022

Recently, the importance and necessity of artificial intelligence (AI), especially machine learning, has been emphasized. In fact, studies are actively underway to solve complex and challenging problems through the use of AI systems, such as intelligent CCTVs, intelligent AI security systems, and AI surgical robots. Information security that involves analysis and response to security vulnerabilities of software is no exception to this and is recognized as one of the fields wherein significant results are expected when AI is applied. This is because the frequency of malware incidents is gradually increasing, and the available security technologies are limited with regard to the use of software security experts or source code analysis tools. We conducted a study on MalDC, a technique that converts malware into images using machine learning, MalDC showed good performance and was able to analyze and classify different types of malware. MalDC applies a preprocessing step to minimize the noise generated in the image conversion process and employs an image augmentation technique to reinforce the insufficient dataset, thus improving the accuracy of the malware classification. To verify the feasibility of our method, we tested the malware classification technique used by MalDC on a dataset provided by Microsoft and malware data collected by the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA). Consequently, an accuracy of 97% was achieved.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.25-36
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• 2023

오늘날 AI(Artificial Intelligence) 기술은 보안 분야를 비롯하여 다양한 분야에 도입됨에 따라 기술의 발전이 가속화되고 있다. 하지만 AI 기술의 발전과 더불어 악성 행위 탐지를 교묘하게 우회하는 공격 기법들도 함께 발전되고 있다. 이러한 공격 기법 중 AI 모델의 분류 과정에서 입력값의 미세한 조정을 통해 오 분류와 신뢰도 하락을 유도하는 Adversarial attack이 등장하였다. 앞으로 등장할 공격들은 공격자가 새로이 공격을 생성하는 것이 아닌, Adversarial attack처럼 기존에 생성된 공격에 약간의 변형을 주어 AI 모델의 탐지체계를 회피하는 방식이다. 이러한 악성코드의 변종에도 대응이 가능한 견고한 모델을 만들어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 AI 모델의 Robustness 향상을 위한 효율적인 Adversarial attack 생성 기법으로 2가지 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법은 XAI 기법을 활용한 XAI based attack 기법과 모델의 결정 경계 탐색을 통한 Reference based attack이다. 이후 성능 검증을 위해 악성코드 데이터 셋을 통해 분류 모델을 구축하여 기존의 Adversarial attack 중 하나인 PGD attack과의 성능 비교를 하였다. 생성 속도 측면에서 기존 20분이 소요되는 PGD attack에 비하여 XAI based attack과 Reference based attack이 각각 0.35초, 0.47초 소요되어 매우 빠른 속도를 보이며, 특히 Reference based attack의 경우 생성률이 97.7%로 기존 PGD attack의 생성률인 75.5%에 비해 높은 성공률을 보이는 것을 확인하였다. 따라서 제안한 기법을 통해 더욱 효율적인 Adversarial attack이 가능하며, 이후 견고한 AI 모델을 구축하기 위한 연구에 기여 할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• 융합보안논문지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.161-168
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• 2022

코로나 바이러스 출현 이후, 비대면 서비스가 활성화되면서, 사물인터넷(IoT)의 센싱 정보를 블록체인 기술로 담아 무결성을 보장하는 서비스가 확대되고 있다. 예를 들면, CCTV 등을 이용한 안전, 치안 등의 영역에서는 실시간으로 안전하게 펌웨어가 업데이트되고 악의적 침입이 없었음을 확인하는 과정이 요구된다. 기존의 안전한 보안 처리 절차에서는 공무를 수행하는 담당자가 USB 등을 휴대하고 직접 펌웨어를 업데이트 하는 경우가 많았다. 그러나 하이퍼레저 등프라이빗 블록체인 기술을 활용할 경우, 사물인터넷 환경의 편리성 및 업무 효율성의 증대와 안전을 기대할 수 있다. 이 글은 비대면 환경하에서 펌웨어 업데이트, 기기변경 등 사물인터넷의 취약점을 예방하는 방안을 시나리오적으로 기술하였다. 특히 해킹이나 정보유출 등 악의적인 보안위험에 노출되기 쉬운 사물인터넷에 최적인 블록체인 기법을 소개하였다. 이 글에서는 점차 확대되고 있는 사물인터넷 환경하에서 블록체인기술을 적용한 운영을 통해 무결성을 담보한 보안관리의 필요성 및 체제를 제안하였다. 이를 활용할 경우 추후 사물인터넷 환경의 보안 강화를 위한 가이드라인 등에 블록체인 기법을 어떻게 적용할지에 대한 통찰력을 얻을 것으로 기대된다.