• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.51-56
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• 2017

With the rapid increase in the number of mobile terminals, demand for wireless technologies has sharply increased these days. While wireless communication provides advantages such as ease of deployment, mobility of terminals, continuity of session, and almost comparable transmission bandwidth to the wired communication, it has vulnerability to malicious radio attacks such as eavesdropping, denial of service, session hijacking, and jamming. Among a variety of methods of preventing wireless attacks, the MTD(Moving Target Defense) is the technique for improving the security capability of the defense system by constantly changing the ability of the system to be attacked. In this paper, in order to develop a resilient software defined radio communication testbed system, we present a novel MTD approach to change dynamically and randomly the radio parameters such as modulation scheme, operating frequency, packet size. The probability of successful attack on the developed MTD-based SDR communication system has been analysed in a mathematical way and verified through simulation.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.137-142
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• 2014

Industrial control system (ICS) is a computer based system which are typically used in nation-wide critical infra-structure facilities such as electrical, gas, water, wastewater, oil and transportation. In addition, ICS is essentially used in industrial application domain to effectively monitor and control the remotely scattered systems. The highly developed information technology (IT) and related network techniques are continually adapted into domains of industrial control system. However, industrial control system is confronted significant side-effects, which ICS is exposed to prevalent cyber threats typically found in IT environments. Therefore, cyber security vulnerabilities and possibilities of cyber incidents are dramatically increased in industrial control system. The vulnerabilities that may be found in typical ICS are grouped into Policy and Procedure, Platform, and Network categories to assist in determining optimal mitigation strategies. The order of these vulnerabilities does not necessarily reflect any priority in terms of likelihood of occurrence or severity of impact. Firstly, corporate security policy can reduce vulnerabilities by mandating conduct such as password usage and maintenance or requirements for connecting modems to ICS. Secondly, platfom vulnerabilities can be mitigated through various security controls, such as OS and application patching, physical access control, and security software. Thirdly, network vulnerabilities can be eliminated or mitigated through various security controls, such as defense-in-depth network design, encrypting network communication, restricting network traffic flows, and providing physical access control for network components.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38C no.4
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• pp.335-343
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• 2013

If the SW weaknesses, which are the main cause of cyber breaches, are analyzed and removed in the SW development stages, the cyber breaches can be prevented effectively. In case of Domestic, removing SW weaknesses by applying Secure SDLC(SW Development Life Cycle) has become mandatory. In order to analyze and remove the SW weaknesses effectively, reliable SW weakness diagnostic tools are required. Therefore, we propose the functional requirements of diagnostic tool which is suitable for the domestic environment and the evaluation methodology which can assure the reliability of the diagnostic tools. Then, to analyze the effectiveness of the proposed evaluation framework, both demonstration results and process are presented.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2010.06d
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• pp.106-109
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• 2010

컴퓨터의 대중화와 네트워크의 발달로 인해 우리 사회는 컴퓨터와 통신이 없이는 생각조차 할 수 없는 시대에 살고 있으며, 또한 많은 정보시스템들을 일상생활 속에서 접하고 살고 있다. 하지만 소프트웨어들의 보안 취약점으로 인해 개인뿐만 아니라 기업은 물론이고 국가에 이르기까지 그 위험성은 모두 열거할 수 없을 정도이며 그에 따른 정보보호의 중요성이 더욱 강조가 되고 있으며, 어느 시스템도 이러한 정보보호에서 자유로울 수 없다. 이러한 보안적 및 오류의 위험은 현재 개발되고 있는 소프트웨어 뿐만 아니라, 정상적으로 운영되고 있는 시스템도 예외가 될 수 없다. 이러한 보안취약점 및 오류의 위험은 소프트웨어 개발시 방어적 프로그램(Defensive Programming)을 포함하는 시큐어 코딩(Secure Coding)기법을 적용하여 보다 안정적인 프로그램을 개발 할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 소프트웨어의 잠재적인 오류를 발생할 수 있는 요소와 보안 취약점으로 인하여 생길 수 있는 요소들을 살펴보고 실제 java로 개발되어 운영되고 있는 시스템들의 보안 취약점을 분석하였다.

• Informatization Policy
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.82-104
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• 2024

Smart home services are growing rapidly as the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) opens the era of the so-called "Connected Living." Although personal information leaks through smart home cameras are increasing, however, users-while concerned-tend to take passive measures to protect their personal information. This study theoretically explained and verified how to design effective software update notification messages for smart home cameras to ensure that users comply with the recommended security behavior (i.e., update installation). In a survey experiment participated in by 120 actual users, the effectiveness of both emotional appeals (i.e., security breach warning images for fear appeals) and rational appeals (i.e., loss-framed messages emphasizing the negative consequences of not installing the updates) were confirmed. The results of this study provide theoretical interpretations and practical guidelines on the message design features that are effective for threat appraisals (i.e., severity, vulnerability) of smart home camera users and their protection motivation.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.14 no.10
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• pp.1335-1347
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• 2011

The dissemination and use of mobile applications have been rapidly expanding these days. And in such a situation, the security of mobile applications has emerged as a new issue. Although the safety of general software such as desktop and enterprise software is systematically achieved from the development phase to the verification phase through secure coding, there have been not sufficient studies on the safety of mobile applications yet. This paper deals with deriving weakness enumeration specialized in mobile applications and implementing a tool that can automatically analyze the derived weakness. Deriving the weakness enumeration can be achieved based on CWE(Common Weakness Enumeration) and CERT(Computer Emergency Response Team) relating to the event-driven method that is generally used in developing mobile applications. The analysis tool uses the dynamic tests to check whether there are specified vulnerabilities in the source code of mobile applications. Moreover, the derived vulnerability could be used as a guidebook for programmers to develop mobile applications.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.55-62
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• 2018

The MTD-based approach changes various operating parameters dynamically so that the vulnerability of the system can be protected from the malicious attack. In this paper, random/serial scanning/jamming attack success probabilities have been mathematically analyzed and verified through simulation to improve the security of the wireless communication systems in which the MTD-SDR technologies are applied. As a result, for random scanning attacks, attack success probability increases as the change period of transmission channel increases, while for random jamming attacks there is no change. The attack success probability patterns for serial attacks are similar to those of random attacks, but when the change period of transmission channel approaches to the total number of transmission channels, the success probability of serial attack is getting greater than that of random attack, up to twice in jamming attacks and up to 36% in scanning attacks.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.487-495
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• 2015

Since most of information is computerized nowadays, it is extremely important to promote the security of the computerized information. However, the software itself can threaten the safety of information through many abusive methods enabled by coding mistakes. Even though the Secure Coding Guide has been proposed to promote the safety of information by fundamentally blocking the hacking methods, it is still hard to apply the techniques on other programming languages because the proposed coding guide is mainly written for C and Java programmers. In this paper, we reclassified the coding rules of the Secure Coding Guide to extend its applicability to programming languages in general. The specific coding guide adopted in this paper is the C Secure Coding Guide, announced by the Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs of Korea. According to the classification, we applied the rules of programming in Sprout, which is a newly proposed Korean programming language. The number of vulnerability rules that should be checked was decreased in Sprout by 52% compared to C.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.15A no.1
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• pp.45-52
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• 2008

In this paper we define a vulnerable code to symbolic link exploit and propose a technique to detect this using program analysis. The existing methods to solve symbolic link exploit is for protecting it, on accessing a temporary file they should perform an investigation whether the file is attacked by symbolic link exploit. If programmers miss the investigation, the program may be revealed to symbolic link exploit. Because our technique detects all the vulnerable codes to symbolic link exploit, it helps programmers keep the program safety. Our technique add two type qualifiers to the existing type system to analyze vulnerable codes to symbolic link exploit, it detects the vulnerable codes using type checking including the added type qualifiers. Our technique detects all the vulnerable codes to symbolic link exploit automatically, it has the advantage of saving costs of modifying and of overviewing all codes because programmers apply the methods protecting symbolic link exploit to only the detected codes as vulnerable. We experiment our analyzer with widely used programs. In our experiments only a portion of all the function fopen() is analyzed as the vulnerabilities to symbolic link exploit. It shows that our technique is useful to diminish modifying codes.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.79-90
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• 2014

User authentication based on ID and PW has been widely used. As the Internet has become a growing part of people' lives, input times of ID/PW have been increased for a variety of services. People have already learned enough to perform the authentication procedure and have entered ID/PW while ones are unconscious. This is referred to as the adaptive unconscious, a set of mental processes incoming information and producing judgements and behaviors without our conscious awareness and within a second. Most people have joined up for various websites with a small number of IDs/PWs, because they relied on their memory for managing IDs/PWs. Human memory decays with the passing of time and knowledges in human memory tend to interfere with each other. For that reason, there is the potential for people to enter an invalid ID/PW. Therefore, these characteristics above mentioned regarding of user authentication with ID/PW can lead to human vulnerabilities: people use a few PWs for various websites, manage IDs/PWs depending on their memory, and enter ID/PW unconsciously. Based on the vulnerability of human factors, a variety of information leakage attacks such as phishing and pharming attacks have been increasing exponentially. In the past, information leakage attacks exploited vulnerabilities of hardware, operating system, software and so on. However, most of current attacks tend to exploit the vulnerabilities of the human factors. These attacks based on the vulnerability of the human factor are called social-engineering attacks. Recently, malicious social-engineering technique such as phishing and pharming attacks is one of the biggest security problems. Phishing is an attack of attempting to obtain valuable information such as ID/PW and pharming is an attack intended to steal personal data by redirecting a website's traffic to a fraudulent copy of a legitimate website. Screens of fraudulent copies used for both phishing and pharming attacks are almost identical to those of legitimate websites, and even the pharming can include the deceptive URL address. Therefore, without the supports of prevention and detection techniques such as vaccines and reputation system, it is difficult for users to determine intuitively whether the site is the phishing and pharming sites or legitimate site. The previous researches in terms of phishing and pharming attacks have mainly studied on technical solutions. In this paper, we focus on human behaviour when users are confronted by phishing and pharming attacks without knowing them. We conducted an attack experiment in order to find out how many IDs/PWs are leaked from pharming and phishing attack. We firstly configured the experimental settings in the same condition of phishing and pharming attacks and build a phishing site for the experiment. We then recruited 64 voluntary participants and asked them to log in our experimental site. For each participant, we conducted a questionnaire survey with regard to the experiment. Through the attack experiment and survey, we observed whether their password are leaked out when logging in the experimental phishing site, and how many different passwords are leaked among the total number of passwords of each participant. Consequently, we found out that most participants unconsciously logged in the site and the ID/PW management dependent on human memory caused the leakage of multiple passwords. The user should actively utilize repudiation systems and the service provider with online site should support prevention techniques that the user can intuitively determined whether the site is phishing.