• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.117-123
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• 2023

In the fintech environment, Smart phones are mainly used for various service. User authentication technology is required to use safe services. Authentication is performed by transmitting authentication information to the server when the PIN or password is entered and touch the button completing authentication. But A post-attack is possible because the smudge which is the trace of using screen remains instead of recording attack with a camera or SSA(Shoulder Surfing Attack). To prevent smudge attacks, users must erase their fingerprints after authentication. In this study, we proposed a technique to determine whether to erase fingerprints. The proposed method performed erasing fingerprint which is the trace of touching after entering PIN and designed the security keypads that processes instead of entering completion button automatically when determined whether the fingerprint has been erased or not. This method suggests action that must erase the fingerprint when entering password. By this method, A user must erase the fingerprint to complete service request and can block smudge attack.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2011.06d
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• pp.82-85
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• 2011

개인정보를 사용자 몰래 뒤에서 훔쳐보거나 불법 카메라를 이용하여 녹화하는 등의 방식으로 얻어내는 훔쳐보기 공격(Shoulder-surfing attack)은 최근 모바일 기기의 보급 속도가 빨라지고 휴대성이 증대되면서 점점 더 큰 보안 문제로 떠오르고 있다. 본 논문에서는 그래픽 패스워드(Graphic Password) 방식 중에 훔쳐보기 공격을 효율적으로 막을 수 있는 새로운 방안을 소개하려고 한다. 이 방식은 그래픽 패스워드에서 쓰이는 패스 이미지(Pass image)의 선택을 한붓그리기를 이용하여 입력하는 방식으로써 기존의 방식들에 비해서 훔쳐보기 공격에 특화되어 좀 더 안전한 수준의 보안을 제공한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06c
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• pp.312-313
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• 2012

요즈음 스마트폰의 사용이 증가함에 따라 스마트폰 보안이 매우 중요한 주제가 되었다. 이 논문에서는 여러 가지 공격에 안전한 스마트폰의 회전식 그래픽 패스워드를 제안한다. 제안된 그래픽 패스워드 방식은 사용자의 편의성을 증대시키고 스머지(Smudge) 공격, 무작위 공격, 훔쳐보기 공격 등에 안전하기 때문에 스마트폰의 보안성을 높일 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.04a
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• pp.654-657
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• 2012

스마트폰이 널리 보급되면서 사진, 금융정보 같은 중요한 정보를 저장하고 이를 활용한 다양한 서비스가 제공되고 있으며, 이러한 중요정보를 보호하기 위해 사용자인증의 중요성이 증대되고 있다. 하지만 일반적으로 많이 사용하는 4자리 PIN(Personal Identification Number)은 무작위 대입 공격 및 어깨너머 훔쳐보기 공격에 취약하다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 다양한 인증 기술들이 개발되고 있다. 본 논문은 지뢰찾기 게임을 이용하여 어깨너머 훔쳐보기 공격에 안전한 새로운 패스워드 기반 사용자 인증방식을 제안한다. 제안기술은 사용자가 쉽게 패스워드를 기억할 수 있으며 실제 패스워드를 직접 입력하는 것이 아닌 패스워드를 이용한 계산된 값을 입력하는 방식을 통해 어깨너머 훔쳐보기 공격에 안전성을 보장한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2024.05a
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• pp.856-858
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• 2024

VR 기술의 발전은 다양한 분야에서 사용자에게 몰입감 있는 가상 현실 경험을 제공하지만, VR기기 내부에 사용자의 생체 데이터 및 금융정보와 같은 민감한 정보들이 저장되어 새로운 보안 문제를 야기하고 있다. 이에 따라 PIN, 패스워드 등과 같은 기존의 인증 방식이 VR 기기에 적용되고 있지만 이들은 shoulder-surfing attack 공격 취약하며 VR 환경에서 사용하기에 불편한 인터페이스를 가지고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이상 탐지 모델을 활용하여 외부 추론 공격에 강인하며 VR 환경에 적합한 사용자 행위 기반의 VR기기 사용자 인증 모델을 구현한다. 특정 task를 수행하는 동안 사용자의 행위 데이터를 수집 및 feature 데이터를 추출하고, 정상으로 라벨링 된 사용자의 데이터로 이상 탐지 머신러닝 모델들을 학습 후 정상 데이터와 비정상 데이터를 이용하여 인증 모델의 성능을 평가하였다. OC-SVM이 87.72%의 F1-score로 세 모델 중 가장 높은 성능을 보임을 확인하였으며, 향후 인증 모델 성능 향상을 위한 계획을 제시하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.12 no.9
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• pp.4560-4575
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• 2018

Since smartphone contains various personal data, security is one of the important aspects in smartphone technologies. Up to now, various authentication techniques have been proposed to protect smartphones. The pattern lock on the Android system is one of the most widely used authentication methods for low-cost devices but it is known to be vulnerable to smudge attack or shoulder surfing attack. LG's smartphone uses its own technique, which is called "Knock Code." The knock code completes the authentication by touching the user defined area in turn on the screen. In this paper, we propose the new, enhanced version of knock code by adding the sliding operation and by using flexible area recognition. We conducted security analysis, which shows that under the same password size, the search space is overwhelmingly larger than the original algorithm. Also, by using the sliding operation, the proposed scheme shows resilience against smudge attacks. We implemented the prototype of our scheme. Experimental results show that compared with the original Knock Code and Android pattern lock, our scheme is more convenient while providing better security.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.38-45
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• 2022

Due to the development of fintech technology, financial transactions using smart phones are being activated. The password for user authentication during financial transactions is entered through the virtual keypad displayed on the screen of the smart phone. When the password is entered, the attacker can find out the password by capturing it with a high-resolution camera or spying over the shoulder. A virtual keypad with security applied to prevent such an attack is difficult to input on a small touch-screen, and there is still a vulnerability in peeping attacks. In this paper, the entire keypad is divided into several groups and displayed on a small screen, touching the group to which the character to be input belongs, and then touching the corresponding character within the group. The proposed method selects the group to which the character to be input belongs, and displays the keypad in the group on a small screen with no more than 10 keypads, so that the size of the keypad can be enlarged more than twice compared to the existing method, and the location is randomly placed, hence location of the touch attacks can be blocked.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.10 no.8
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• pp.144-151
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• 2020

User-authentication process is necessary in Fintech Service. Especially, authentication on smartphones are carried out through PIN which is inputted through virtual keypads on touch screen. Attacker can analogize password by watching touched letter and position over the shoulder or using high definition cameras. To prevent password spill, various research of virtual keypad techniques are ongoing. It is hard to design secure keypad which assures safety by fluctuative keypad and enhance convenience at once. Also, to reconfirm user whether password is wrongly pressed, the inputted information is shown on screen. This makes the password easily exposed through high definition cameras or Google Class during recording. This research analyzed QWERTY based secure keypad's merits and demerits. And through these features, creating Tetris shaped keypad and piece them together on Android environment, and showing inputted words as Tetris shape to users through smart-screen is suggested for the ways to prevent password spill by recording.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.17 no.9
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• pp.65-73
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• 2012

The traditional text-based password is vulnerable guessing, dictionary attacks, keyloggers, social engineering, stole view, etc. these vulnerability effect more serious problem in a mobile environment. In this study, By using the pattern number to enter the password of an existing four-digit numeric password, User easily use to new password system. The technology on pattern based numerical password authorization proposed in this paper would intensify the security of password which holds existing 10 numbers of cases by authorizing a user and would not invade convenience of use by providing high security and making users memorize only four numbers like old method. Making users not have inconvenience and raising complexity, it would have a strength to an shoulder surfing attack of an attacker. So I study password system that represents the shape-based of number. I propose the new password system to prevent peeking attacks and Brute-force attack, and this proposal is to review the security and usability.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.915-922
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• 2017

The rapid increase in users of mobile smart devices has greatly expanded their range of activities. Compare to conventional mobile devices, smart devices have higher security requirements because they manage and use various kind of confidential information of the owners. However, the cation schemes provided by conventional smart devices are vulnerable to recent attacks such as shoulder surfing, recording, and smudge attacks, which are the social engineering attacks among the types of security attacks targeting the smart devices. In this paper, we propose a novel authentication method that is robust against social engineering attacks but sufficiently considering user's convenience. The proposed method is robust by using combination of a graphical authentication method and a text-based authentication method. Furthermore, our method is easier to memorize the password compare to the conventional graphical authentication methods.