• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.969-974
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• 2014

CC (Common Criteria) requires collecting vulnerability information and analyzing them by using penetration testing for evaluating IT security products. Under the time limited circumstance, developers cannot help but apply vulnerability analysis at random to the products. Without the systematic vulnerability analysis, it is inevitable to get the diverse vulnerability analysis results depending on competence in vulnerability analysis of developers. It causes that the security quality of the products are different despite of the same level of security assurance. It is even worse for the other IT products that are not obliged to get the CC evaluation to be applied the vulnerability analysis. This study describes not only how to apply vulnerability taxonomy to IT security vulnerability but also how to manage security quality of IT security products practically.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.180-187
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• 2020

Security threats are increasing with interest due to the mass spread of smart devices, and vulnerabilities in developed applications are being exposed while mobile malicious codes are spreading. The government and companies provide various applications for the public, and for reliability and security of applications, security checks are required during application development. In this paper, among the security threats that can occur in the mobile service environment, we set up the vulnerability analysis items to respond to security threats when developing Android-based applications. Based on the set analysis items, vulnerability analysis was performed by examining three applications of public institutions and private companies currently operating as mobile applications. As a result of application security checks used by three public institutions and companies, authority management and open module stability management were well managed. However, it was confirmed that many security vulnerabilities were found in input value verification, outside transmit data management, and data management. It is believed that it will contribute to improving the safety of mobile applications through the case of vulnerability analysis for Android application security.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.4531-4544
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• 2021

Because the traditional network information security vulnerability risk assessment method does not set the weight, it is easy for security personnel to fail to evaluate the value of information security vulnerability risk according to the calculation value of network centrality, resulting in poor evaluation effect. Therefore, based on the network security data element feature system, this study designed a quantitative assessment method of network information security vulnerability detection risk under single transmission state. In the case of single transmission state, the multi-dimensional analysis of network information security vulnerability is carried out by using the analysis model. On this basis, the weight is set, and the intrinsic attribute value of information security vulnerability is quantified by using the qualitative method. In order to comprehensively evaluate information security vulnerability, the efficacy coefficient method is used to transform information security vulnerability associated risk, and the information security vulnerability risk value is obtained, so as to realize the quantitative evaluation of network information security vulnerability detection under single transmission state. The calculated values of network centrality of the traditional method and the proposed method are tested respectively, and the evaluation of the two methods is evaluated according to the calculated results. The experimental results show that the proposed method can be used to calculate the network centrality value in the complex information security vulnerability space network, and the output evaluation result has a high signal-to-noise ratio, and the evaluation effect is obviously better than the traditional method.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.541-547
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• 2019

Recent developments in hacking technology are continuing to increase the number of new security vulnerabilities. Approximately 80,000 new vulnerabilities have been registered in the Common Vulnerability Enumeration (CVE) database, which is a representative vulnerability database, from 2010 to 2015, and the trend is gradually increasing in recent years. While security vulnerabilities are growing at a rapid pace, responses to security vulnerabilities are slow to respond because they rely on manual analysis. To solve this problem, there is a need for a technology that can automatically detect and patch security vulnerabilities and respond to security vulnerabilities in advance. In this paper, we propose the technology to extract the features of the vulnerability-discovery target binary through complexity analysis, and select a vulnerability-discovery strategy suitable for the feature and automatically explore the vulnerability. The proposed technology was compared to the AFL, ANGR, and Driller tools, with about 6% improvement in code coverage, about 2.4 times increase in crash count, and about 11% improvement in crash incidence.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.147-155
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• 2010

It has been widely addressed that static analysis techniques can play important role in identifying potential security vulnerability reside in source code. This paper proposes the design and application of security metrics that use both vulnerability information extracted from the static analysis, and significant factors of information that software handles. The security metrics are useful for both developers and evaluators in that the metrics help them identity source code vulnerability in early stage of development. By effectively utilizing the security metrics, evaluators can check the level of source code security, and confirm the final code depending on the characteristics of the source code and the security level of information required.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 1995.11a
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• pp.51-58
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• 1995

The importance of the risk analysis tool has been recognized and its use also has been emphasized by a number of researchers recently The methodology were examined but neither algorithms nor practical applications have been implemented or practiced in Korea. In this paper, the architecture of the Buddy System, one of the automated risk assessment tools. is analyzed in depth to provide the algorithmic understanding and to promote the development of the risk analysis methodology. The Buddy System mainly uses three main factors of vulnerability, threat and countermeasures as a nucleus of the qualatative analysis with the modified loss expectancy value. These factors are identified and assessed by the separation of duties between the end user and security analyst. The Buddy System uses five axioms as its bases of assessment algorithm and the assessed vulnerability level is strictly within these axioms. Since the In-place countermeasures reduce the vulnerability level up to a certain level. the security analyst may use "what if " model to examine the impact of additional countermeasures by proposing each to reduce the vulnerability level further to within the acceptable range. The emphasis on the qualitative approach on vulnerability leveling is very well balanced with the quantitative analysis that the system performance is prominent.prominent.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.259-266
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• 2021

Security vulnerabilities have been reported in major design software systems such as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, which are recognized as de facto standard design tools in most of the design industries. Companies need to evaluate and manage their risk levels posed by those vulnerabilities, so that they could mitigate the potential security bridges in advance. In general, security vulnerabilities are discovered throughout their life cycles repeatedly if software systems are continually used. Hence, in this study, we empirically analyze risk levels for the three major graphical design software systems, namely Photoshop, Illustrator and GIMP with respect to a software vulnerability discovery model. The analysis reveals that the Alhazmi-Malaiya Logistic model tends to describe the vulnerability discovery patterns significantly. This indicates that the vulnerability discovery model makes it possible to predict vulnerability discovery in advance for the software systems. Also, we found that none of the examined vulnerabilities requires even a single authentication step for successful attacks, which suggests that adding an authentication process in software systems dramatically reduce the probability of exploitations. The analysis also discloses that, for all the three software systems, the predictions with evenly distributed and daily based datasets perform better than the estimations with the datasets of vulnerability reporting dates only. The observed outcome from the analysis allows software development managers to prepare proactively for a hostile environment by deploying necessary resources before the expected time of vulnerability discovery. In addition, it can periodically remind designers who use the software systems to be aware of security risk, related to their digital work environments.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.1539-1552
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• 2018

The necessity of establishing a more secure cyber security system is emerging to protect NPP against cyber attacks as nuclear facilities become increasingly reliant on digital system. Proper security measures should be established through periodic analysis and evaluation of vulnerabilities. However, as Nuclear facilities has safety characteristics as their top priority and it requires a lot of time and cost to construct regarding the activities for vulnerability analysis, it is difficult to apply the existing vulnerability analysis environment and analysis tools. In this study, We propose a analytical vulnerability assessment method to overcome the limitations of existing vulnerability analysis methods through analysis the existing vulnerability analysis methods and the issues to be considered when applying the vulnerability analysis method.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.71-76
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• 2012

As the use of Mashups, web3.0, JavaScript and AJAX(Asynchronous JavaScript XML) widely increases, the new security threats for web vulnerability also increases when the web application services are provided. In order to previously diagnose the vulnerability and prepare the threats, in this paper, the classification of security threats and requirements are presented, and the web vulnerability is analyzed for the domestic web sites using WVS(Web Vulnerability Scanner) automatic evaluation tool. From the results of vulnerability such as XSS(Cross Site Scripting) and SQL Injection, the total alerts are distributed from 0 to 31,177, mean of 411, and standard deviation of 2,563. The results also show that the web sites of 22.5% for total web sites has web vulnerability, and the previous defenses for the security threats are required.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.89-99
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• 2020

Cloud computing is rapidly increasing for achieving comfortable computing. Cloud computing has essentially security vulnerability of software and hardware. For achieving secure cloud computing, the vulnerabilities of cloud computing could be analyzed in a various and systematic approach from perspective of the service designer, service operator, the designer of cloud security and certifiers of cloud systems. The paper investigates the vulnerabilities and security controls from the perspective of administration, and systems. For achieving the secure operation of cloud computing, this paper analyzes technological security vulnerability, operational weakness and the security issues in an enterprise. Based on analysis, the paper suggests secure establishments for cloud computing.