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The Importance of Ethical Hacking Tools and Techniques in Software Development Life Cycle

  • Syed Zain ul Hassan;Saleem Zubair Ahmad
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.169-175
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    • 2023
  • Ethical hackers are using different tools and techniques to encounter malicious cyber-attacks generated by bad hackers. During the software development process, development teams typically bypass or ignore the security parameters of the software. Whereas, with the advent of online web-based software, security is an essential part of the software development process for implementing secure software. Security features cannot be added as additional at the end of the software deployment process, but they need to be paid attention throughout the SDLC. In that view, this paper presents a new, Ethical Hacking - Software Development Life Cycle (EH-SDLC) introducing ethical hacking processes and phases to be followed during the SDLC. Adopting these techniques in SDLC ensures that consumers find the end-product safe, secure and stable. Having a team of penetration testers as part of the SDLC process will help you avoid incurring unnecessary costs that come up after the data breach. This research work aims to discuss different operating systems and tools in order to facilitate the secure execution of the penetration tests during SDLC. Thus, it helps to improve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the software products.

Building Data for Household Energy Usage profile (가구별 에너지 사용 패턴 및 프로파일 설계)

  • Lee, Seung-Han;Ko, Seok-Bai;Han, Sang-Soo;Son, Sung-Yong
    • The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.300-306
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, we suggest a usage profiles for electric home appliances. In Korea, it is published the records for total consumption of electricity in a house but the electric home appliance consumption records in a households are not. To build the data, we must collect the usage of every appliances in a house and the information of the household which live in the house. Unfortunately, it is hard to get the data because of the worry about the breach of privacy. In this paper, we make a scenarios on the electricity consumption pattern of a few households type. Based on the conjecture, we make the power consumption profiles for some home appliances. Comparison to the total electric consumption records for a house, we found our scenarios are quite reasonable.

A Web Link Architecture Based on XRI Providing Persistent Link (영속적 링크를 제공하는 XRI 기반의 웹 링크 구조)

  • Jung, Eui-Hyun;Kim, Weon;Park, Chan-Ki
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.247-253
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    • 2008
  • Web 2.0 and Semantic Web technology will be merged to be a next generation Web that leads presentation-oriented Web to data-centric Web. In the next generation Web. semantic processing. Web Platform, and data fusion are most important technology factors. Resolving the Link Rot is the one of the essential technologies to enable these features. The Link Rot causes not only simple annoyances to users but also more serious problems including data integrity. loss of knowledge. breach of service. and so forth. We have suggested a new XRI-based persistent Web link architecture to cure the Link Rot that has been considered as a deep-seated Problem of the Web. The Proposed architecture is based on the XRI suggested by OASIS and it is designed to support a persistent link by using URL rewriting. Since the architecture is designed as a server-side technology, it is superior to existing research especially in Interoperability. Transparency and Adoptability. In addition to this, the architecture provides a metadata identification to be used fer context-aware link resolution.

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Access Management Using Knowledge Based Multi Factor Authentication In Information Security

  • Iftikhar, Umar;Asrar, Kashif;Waqas, Maria;Ali, Syed Abbas
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.21 no.7
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    • pp.119-124
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    • 2021
  • Today, both sides of modern culture are decisively invaded by digitalization. Authentication is considered to be one of the main components in keeping this process secure. Cyber criminals are working hard in penetrating through the existing network channels to encounter malicious attacks. When it comes to enterprises, the company's information is a major asset. Question here arises is how to protect the vital information. This takes into account various aspects of a society often termed as hyper connected society including online communication, purchases, regulation of access rights and many more. In this research paper, we will discuss about the concepts of MFA and KBA, i.e., Multi-Factor Authentication and Knowledge Based Authentication. The purpose of MFA and KBA its utilization for human.to.everything..interactions, offering easy to be used and secured validation mechanism while having access to the service. In the research, we will also explore the existing yet evolving factor providers (sensors) used for authenticating a user. This is an important tool to protect data from malicious insiders and outsiders. Access Management main goal is to provide authorized users the right to use a service also preventing access to illegal users. Multiple techniques can be implemented to ensure access management. In this paper, we will discuss various techniques to ensure access management suitable for enterprises, primarily focusing/restricting our discussion to multifactor authentication. We will also highlight the role of knowledge-based authentication in multi factor authentication and how it can make enterprises data more secure from Cyber Attack. Lastly, we will also discuss about the future of MFA and KBA.

Secure Query Processing against Encrypted XML Data Using Query-Aware Decryption (질의-인식 복호화를 사용한 암호화된 XML데이타에 대한 안전한 질의 처리)

  • Lee Jae-Gil;Whang Kyu-Young
    • Journal of KIISE:Databases
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.243-253
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    • 2005
  • Dissemination of XML data on the internet could breach the privacy of data providers unless access to the disseminated XML data is carefully controlled. Recently, the methods using encryption have been proposed for such access control. However, in these methods, the performance of processing queries has not been addressed. A query processor cannot identify the contents of encrypted XML data unless the data are decrypted. This limitation incurs overhead of decrypting the parts of the XML data that would not contribute to the query result. In this paper, we propose the notion of query-aware decryption for efficient processing of queries against encrypted XML data. Query-aware decryption allows us to decrypt only those parts that would contribute to the query result. For this purpose, we disseminate an encrypted XML index along with the encrypted XML data. This index, when decrypted, informs us where the query results are located in the encrypted XML data, thus preventing unnecessary decryption for other parts of the data. Since the size of this index is much smaller than that of the encrypted XML data, the cost of decrypting this index is negligible compared with that for unnecessary decryption of the data itself. The experimental results show that our method improves the performance of query processing by up to 6 times compared with those of existing methods. Finally, we formally prove that dissemination of the encrypted XML index does not compromise security.

A Study on Countermeasures for Personal Data Breach and Security Threats of Social Network Game (소셜 네트워크 게임(SNG) 서비스의 개인정보 유출 및 보안위협 대응방안에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Sang Won;Kim, Huy Kang;Kim, Eun Jin
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.77-88
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    • 2015
  • As the smart phone market is drastically expanding, there is a steady growth of recent vicious activities such as data manipulation, billing fraud, identity theft, and leakage of personal information that are security threats to Social Network Games(SNG). Due to the threats, Strong development standard is required for security enhancement of SNG. Nonetheless, short life-spans, additional expenses, and the necessities to provide a sound game service hinders developers from reaching their security goals. Therefore, this research investigates the weak points of SNG through memory manipulation experiments based on the currently provided SNG services. In addition, the research presents counter measures and security enforcements that are light in service load and simplistic which can be applied in the developing process.

An Algorithm for Improving the Accuracy of Privacy-Preserving Technique Based on Random Substitutions (랜덤대치 기반 프라이버시 보호 기법의 정확성 개선 알고리즘)

  • Kang, Ju-Sung;Lee, Chang-Woo;Hong, Do-Won
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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    • v.16C no.5
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    • pp.563-574
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    • 2009
  • The merits of random substitutions are various applicability and security guarantee on the view point of privacy breach. However there is no research to improve the accuracy of random substitutions. In this paper we propose an algorithm for improving the accuracy of random substitutions by an advanced theoretical analysis about the standard errors. We examine that random substitutions have an unpractical accuracy level and our improved algorithm meets the theoretical results by some experiments for data sets having uniform and normal distributions. By our proposed algorithm, it is possible to upgrade the accuracy level under the same security level as the original method. The additional cost of computation for our algorithm is still acceptable and practical.

Development of a Malicious URL Machine Learning Detection Model Reflecting the Main Feature of URLs (URL 주요특징을 고려한 악성URL 머신러닝 탐지모델 개발)

  • Kim, Youngjun;Lee, Jaewoo
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.26 no.12
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    • pp.1786-1793
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    • 2022
  • Cyber-attacks such as smishing and hacking mail exploiting COVID-19, political and social issues, have recently been continuous. Machine learning and deep learning technology research are conducted to prevent any damage due to cyber-attacks inducing malicious links to breach personal data. It has been concluded as a lack of basis to judge the attacks to be malicious in previous studies since the features of data set were excessively simple. In this paper, nine main features of three types, "URL Days", "URL Word", and "URL Abnormal", were proposed in addition to lexical features of URL which have been reflected in previous research. F1-Score and accuracy index were measured through four different types of machine learning algorithms. An improvement of 0.9% in a result and the highest value, 98.5%, were examined in F1-Score and accuracy through comparatively analyzing an existing research. These outcomes proved the main features contribute to elevating the values in both accuracy and performance.

New Security Approaches for SSL/TLS Attacks Resistance in Practice (SSL/TLS 공격에 대한 신규 대응 방안)

  • Phuc, Tran Song Dat;Lee, Changhoon
    • The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.169-185
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    • 2017
  • Juliano Rizzo and Thai Duong, the authors of the BEAST attack [11, 12] on SSL, have proposed a new attack named CRIME [13] which is Compression Ratio Info-leak Made Easy. The CRIME exploits how data compression and encryption interact to discover secret information about the underlying encrypted data. Repeating this method allows an attacker to eventually decrypt the data and recover HTTP session cookies. This security weakness targets in SPDY and SSL/TLS compression. The attack becomes effective because the attacker is enable to choose different input data and observe the length of the encrypted data that comes out. Since Transport Layer Security (TLS) ensures integrity of data transmitted between two parties (server and client) and provides strong authentication for both parties, in the last few years, it has a wide range of attacks on SSL/TLS which have exploited various features in the TLS mechanism. In this paper, we will discuss about the CRIME and other versions of SSL/TLS attacks along with countermeasures, implementations. We also present direction for SSL/TLS attacks resistance in practice.

The Impact of CPO Characteristics on Organizational Privacy Performance (개인정보보호책임자의 특성이 개인정보보호 성과에 미치는 영향)

  • Wee, Jiyoung;Jang, Jaeyoung;Kim, Beomsoo
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.93-112
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    • 2014
  • As personal data breach reared up as a problem domestically and globally, organizations appointing chief privacy officers (CPOs) are increasing. Related Korean laws, 'Personal Data Protection Act' and 'the Act on Promotion of Information and Communication Network Utilization and Information Protection, etc.' require personal data processing organizations to appoint CPOs. Research on the characteristics and role of CPO is called for because of the importance of CPO being emphasized. There are many researches on top management's role and their impact on organizational performance using the Upper Echelon theory. This study investigates what influence the characteristics of CPO gives on the organizational privacy performance. CPO's definition varies depending on industry, organization size, required responsibility and power. This study defines CPO as 'a person who takes responsibility for all the duties on handling the organization's privacy,' This research assumes that CPO characteristics such as role, personality and background knowledge have an influence on the organizational privacy performance. This study applies the part relevant to the upper echelon's characteristics and performance of the executives (CEOs, CIOs etc.) for CPO. First, following Mintzberg and other managerial role classification, information, strategic, and diplomacy roles are defined as the role of CPO. Second, the "Big Five" taxonomy on individual's personality was suggested in 1990. Among these five personalities, extraversion and conscientiousness are drawn as the personality characteristics of CPO. Third, advance study suggests complex knowledge of technology, law and business is necessary for CPO. Technical, legal, and business background knowledge are drawn as the background knowledge of CPO. To test this model empirically, 120 samples of data collected from CPOs of domestic organizations are used. Factor analysis is carried out and convergent validity and discriminant validity were verified using SPSS and Smart PLS, and the causal relationships between the CPO's role, personality, background knowledge and the organizational privacy performance are analyzed as well. The result of the analysis shows that CPO's diplomacy role and strategic role have significant impacts on organizational privacy performance. This reveals that CPO's active communication with other organizations is needed. Differentiated privacy policy or strategy of organizations is also important. Legal background knowledge and technical background knowledge were also found to be significant determinants to organizational privacy performance. In addition, CPOs conscientiousness has a positive impact on organizational privacy performance. The practical implication of this study is as follows: First, the research can be a yardstick for judgment when companies select CPOs and vest authority in them. Second, not only companies but also CPOs can judge what ability they should concentrate on for development of their career relevant to their job through results of this research. Cultural social value, citizen's consensus on the right to privacy, expected CPO's role will change in process of time. In future study, long-term time-series analysis based research can reveal these changes and can also offer practical implications for government and private organization's policy making on information privacy.