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Research on Security Threats Emerging from Blockchain-based Services

  • Yoo, Soonduck
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2021
  • The purpose of the study is to contribute to the positive development of blockchain technology by providing data to examine security vulnerabilities and threats to blockchain-based services and review countermeasures. The findings of this study are as follows. Threats to the security of blockchain-based services can be classified into application security threats, smart contract security threats, and network (P2P) security threats. First, application security threats include wallet theft (e-wallet stealing), double spending (double payment attack), and cryptojacking (mining malware infection). Second, smart contract security threats are divided into reentrancy attacks, replay attacks, and balance increasing attacks. Third, network (P2P) security threats are divided into the 51% control attack, Sybil attack, balance attack, eclipse attack (spread false information attack), selfish mining (selfish mining monopoly), block withholding attack, DDoS attack (distributed service denial attack) and DNS/BGP hijacks. Through this study, it is possible to discuss the future plans of the blockchain technology-based ecosystem through understanding the functional characteristics of transparency or some privacy that can be obtained within the blockchain. It also supports effective coping with various security threats.

A Study on the Mobile Application Security Threats and Vulnerability Analysis Cases

  • Kim, Hee Wan
    • 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.

Problem Analysis and Countermeasures Research through Security Threat Cases of Physical Security Control Systems (물리보안 관제시스템의 보안위협 사례를 통한 취약점 분석 및 대응방안 연구)

  • Ko, Yun Seong;Park, Kwang Hyuk;Kim, Chang Soo
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.51-59
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    • 2016
  • Physical security protecting people from physical threats, such as a person or vehicle, has received a great attention. However, it has many risks of hacking and other security threats because it is highly dependent on automated management systems. In addition, a representative system of physical security, a CCTV control system has a high risk of hacking, such as video interceptions or video modulation. So physical security needs urgent security measures in accordance with these threats. In this paper, we examine the case of security threats that have occurred in the past, prevent those from threatening the physical security, and analyze the security problem with the threats. Then we study the countermeasures to prevent these security threats based on the problems found in each case. Finally we study for the method to apply these countermeasures.

Security of Web Applications: Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Protection Methods

  • Mohammed, Asma;Alkhathami, Jamilah;Alsuwat, Hatim;Alsuwat, Emad
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.21 no.8
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    • pp.167-176
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    • 2021
  • This is the world of computer science and innovations. In this modern era, every day new apps, webs and software are being introduced. As well as new apps and software are being introduced, similarly threats and vulnerable security matters are also increasing. Web apps are software that can be used by customers for numerous useful tasks, and because of the developer experience of good programming standards, web applications that can be used by an attacker also have multiple sides. Web applications Security is expected to protect the content of critical web and to ensure secure data transmission. Application safety must therefore be enforced across all infrastructure, including the web application itself, that supports the web applications. Many organizations currently have a type of web application protection scheme or attempt to build/develop, but the bulk of these schemes are incapable of generating value consistently and effectively, and therefore do not improve developers' attitude in building/designing stable Web applications. This article aims to analyze the attacks on the website and address security scanners of web applications to help us resolve web application security challenges.

Mitigating Threats and Security Metrics in Cloud Computing

  • Kar, Jayaprakash;Mishra, Manoj Ranjan
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.226-233
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    • 2016
  • Cloud computing is a distributed computing model that has lot of drawbacks and faces difficulties. Many new innovative and emerging techniques take advantage of its features. In this paper, we explore the security threats to and Risk Assessments for cloud computing, attack mitigation frameworks, and the risk-based dynamic access control for cloud computing. Common security threats to cloud computing have been explored and these threats are addressed through acceptable measures via governance and effective risk management using a tailored Security Risk Approach. Most existing Threat and Risk Assessment (TRA) schemes for cloud services use a converse thinking approach to develop theoretical solutions for minimizing the risk of security breaches at a minimal cost. In our study, we propose an improved Attack-Defense Tree mechanism designated as iADTree, for solving the TRA problem in cloud computing environments.

Android Application Analysis Method for Malicious Activity Detection (안드로이드 앱 악성행위 탐지를 위한 분석 기법 연구)

  • Sim, Won-Tae;Kim, Jong-Myoung;Ryou, Jae-Cheol;Noh, Bong-Nam
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.213-219
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    • 2011
  • Due to the rapid growth of smartphone market, the security threats are also increased. One of the smartphone security threats is that w1Verified applications are distributed on the smartphone market. In the case of Andoroid market, Google have no Application Approval Process that can detect malicious android application so many malicious android applications are distributed in the Android market. To reduce this security threat, it is essential the skill to detect the malicious activities of application. In this paper, we propose the android application analysis method for malicious activity detection and we introduce the implementation of our method which can automatically analyze the android application.

Vulnerability Analysis using the Web Vulnerability Scanner (Web Vulnerability Scanner를 이용한 취약성 분석)

  • Jang, Hee-Seon
    • 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.

A Study on the Security Checklist Improvements to improve the Security in the Mobile Applications Development (모바일 어플리케이션 개발에서의 보안성 향상을 위한 보안 점검항목 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Shin, Jun-Yuop;Kim, Dong-Soo;Han, Ki-Jun;Kim, Hee-Wan
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.12 no.8
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    • pp.113-127
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    • 2014
  • The use of mobile devices offers a variety of services to the individuals and companies. On the other hand, security threats and new mobile security threats that exist in IT infrastructure to build the environment for mobile services are present at the same time. Services such as mobile and vaccine management services, such as MDM (Mobile Device Management) has attracted a great deal of interest in order to minimize the threat of security in mobile environment. These solutions can not protect an application that was developed for the mobile service from the threat of vulnerability of mobile application itself. Under these circumstances, in this paper, we proposed mobile application security checklists based on application security review items in order to prevent security accidents that can occur in a mobile service environment. We collected and analyzed Android applications, we performed a total inspection of the applications for verification of the effectiveness of the check items. And we checked that the check items through a survey of experts suitability was verified.

A Study on the Key Distribution Protocol for Secure P2P information Security Service (안전한 P2P 정보보호 서비스를 위한 키 분배 프로토콜에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Jun Seok
    • Journal of Industrial Convergence
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.57-72
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    • 2008
  • In this study, general outline of P2P(peer to peer) application was analyzed dealing with security attacks and threats on the P2P environment. Information security service was studied to provide secure P2P service under the information threats. This study proposes two methods to provide secure information security service. One is a method to use personal firewall software on the peer. The other is a method to use key distribution protocol for confidentiality and integrity.

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