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A Software Vulnerability Analysis System using Learning for Source Code Weakness History (소스코드의 취약점 이력 학습을 이용한 소프트웨어 보안 취약점 분석 시스템)

  • Lee, Kwang-Hyoung;Park, Jae-Pyo
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.18 no.11
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    • pp.46-52
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    • 2017
  • Along with the expansion of areas in which ICT and Internet of Things (IoT) devices are utilized, open source software has recently expanded its scope of applications to include computers, smart phones, and IoT devices. Hence, as the scope of open source software applications has varied, there have been increasing malicious attempts to attack the weaknesses of open source software. In order to address this issue, various secure coding programs have been developed. Nevertheless, numerous vulnerabilities are still left unhandled. This paper provides some methods to handle newly raised weaknesses based on the analysis of histories and patterns of previous open source vulnerabilities. Through this study, we have designed a weaknesses analysis system that utilizes weakness histories and pattern learning, and we tested the performance of the system by implementing a prototype model. For five vulnerability categories, the average vulnerability detection time was shortened by about 1.61 sec, and the average detection accuracy was improved by 44%. This paper can provide help for researchers studying the areas of weaknesses analysis and for developers utilizing secure coding for weaknesses analysis.

Analysis of an Intrinsic Vulnerability on Keyboard Security (키보드 보안의 근본적인 취약점 분석)

  • Yim, Kang-Bin;Bae, Kwang-Jin
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.89-95
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    • 2008
  • This paper analyzes the intrinsic vulnerability problems of the authentication system for Internet commerce based on the ID and password strings gathered from the computer keyboard. Through the found vulnerability, it is easy to sniff user passwords as well as any other keyboard inputs even when each of the existing keyboard protection softwares is running. We propose several countermeasures against the possible attacks to the vulnerability at both points of the hardware and the software concerns. The more secure environment for Internet commerce is highly required by implementing the proposed countermeasures.

Forgery Detection Mechanism with Abnormal Structure Analysis on Office Open XML based MS-Word File

  • Lee, HanSeong;Lee, Hyung-Woo
    • International journal of advanced smart convergence
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.47-57
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    • 2019
  • We examine the weaknesses of the existing OOXML-based MS-Word file structure, and analyze how data concealment and forgery are performed in MS-Word digital documents. In case of forgery by including hidden information in MS-Word digital document, there is no difference in opening the file with the MS-Word Processor. However, the computer system may be malfunctioned by malware or shell code hidden in the digital document. If a malicious image file or ZIP file is hidden in the document by using the structural vulnerability of the MS-Word document, it may be infected by ransomware that encrypts the entire file on the disk even if the MS-Word file is normally executed. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze forgery and alteration of digital document through internal structure analysis of MS-Word file. In this paper, we designed and implemented a mechanism to detect this efficiently and automatic detection software, and presented a method to proactively respond to attacks such as ransomware exploiting MS-Word security vulnerabilities.

Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of RC Frame Structures Using 3D Analytical Models (3차원 해석 모델을 이용한 RC 프레임 구조물의 지진 취약도 평가)

  • Moon, Do-Soo;Lee, Young-Joo;Lee, Sangmok
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.17 no.9
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    • pp.724-731
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    • 2016
  • As the structural damage caused by earthquakes has been gradually increasing, estimating the seismic fragility of structures has become essential for earthquake preparation. Seismic fragility curves are widely used as a probabilistic indicator of structural safety against earthquakes, and many researchers have made efforts to develop them in a more accurate and effective manner. However, most of the previous research studies used simplified 2D analytical models when deriving fragility curves, mainly to reduce the numerical simulation time; however, in many cases 2D models are inadequate to accurately evaluate the seismic behavior of a structure and its seismic vulnerability. Thus, this study provides a way to derive more accurate, but still effective, seismic fragility curves by using 3D analytical models. In this method, the reliability analysis software, FERUM, is integrated with the structural analysis software, ZEUS-NL, enabling the automatic exchange of data between these two software packages, and the first order reliability method (FORM), which is not a sampling-based method, is utilized to calculate the structural failure probabilities. These tools make it possible to conduct structural reliability analyses effectively even with 3D models. By using the proposed method, this study conducted a seismic vulnerability assessment of RC frame structures with their 3D analytical models.

An Analysis of the Importance among the Items in the Secure Coding used by the AHP Method (AHP기법을 이용한 시큐어 코딩의 항목 간 중요도 분석)

  • Kim, Chi-Su
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.257-262
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    • 2015
  • The ministry of security and public administration provide the secure coding guide that can remove the vulnerability of applications and defend cyber attack from the coding step because cyber attack like the hacking about 75% abusing the vulnerability of applications. In this paper we find the oder of priority and did the criticality analysis used by AHP about 7 items in the secure coding which the ministry of security and public administration provide. The result is decided that 'exception handling' is the most important item. There is no secure coding items in software supervision currently, therefore the result of the research will make good use audit standards in the process of the software development.

Studying the Park-Ang damage index of reinforced concrete structures based on equivalent sinusoidal waves

  • Mazloom, Moosa;Pourhaji, Pardis;Shahveisi, Masoud;Jafari, Seyed Hassan
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.72 no.1
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    • pp.83-97
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    • 2019
  • In this research, the vulnerability of some reinforced concrete frames with different stories are studied based on the Park-Ang Damage Index. The damages of the frames are investigated under various earthquakes with nonlinear dynamic analysis in IDARC software. By examining the most important characteristics of earthquake parameters, the damage index and vulnerability of these frames are investigated in this software. The intensity of Erias, velocity spectral intensity (VSI) and peak ground velocity (PGV) had the highest correlation, and root mean square of displacement ($D_{rms}$) had the lowest correlation coefficient among the parameters. Then, the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm was used, and the sinusoidal waves were equivalent to the used earthquakes according to the most influential parameters above. The damage index equivalent to these waves is estimated using nonlinear dynamics analysis. The comparison between the damages caused by earthquakes and equivalent sinusoidal waves is done too. The generations of sinusoidal waves equivalent to different earthquakes are generalized in some reinforced concrete frames. The equivalent sinusoidal wave method was exact enough because the greatest difference between the results of the main and artificial accelerator damage index was about 5 percent. Also sinusoidal waves were more consistent with the damage indices of the structures compared to the earthquake parameters.

A Design of Smart Fuzzing System Based on Hybrid Analysis (하이브리드 분석 기반의 스마트 퍼징 시스템 설계)

  • Kim, Mansik;Kang, Jungho;Jun, Moon-seog
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.175-180
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    • 2017
  • In accordance with the development of IT industry worldwide, software industry has also grown tremendously, and it is exerting influence on the general society starting from daily life to financial organizations and public institutions. However, various security threats that can inflict serious threat to provided services in proportion to the growing software industry, have also greatly increased. In this thesis, we suggest a smart fuzzing system combined with black box and white box testing that can effectively detectxdistinguish software vulnerability which take up a large portion of the security incidents in application programs.

Analysis on Vulnerability of ID/PW Management Solution and Proposal of the Evaluation Criteria (아이디/패스워드 통합 관리 제품의 취약성 분석 및 평가기준 제안)

  • Han, Jeong-Hoon;Lee, Byung-Hee;Hong, Su-Min;Kim, Seung-Hyun;Won, Dong-Ho;Kim, Seung-Joo
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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    • v.15C no.2
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    • pp.125-132
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    • 2008
  • As the development of Internet technology, the number of IDs managed by each individuals has been increased. And many software development institutes have developed ID/PW management solutions to facilitate secure and convenient management of ID/PW. However, these solutions also can be vulnerable in case of administrator's password exposure. Thus, we need to derive security requirements from the vulnerability analysis of these solutions, also we need evaluation criteria for secure ID/PW management solution development. In this paper, we analyze the vulnerability of ID/PW management solution and propose the evaluation criteria for secure ID/PW management solution.

Measure of Effectiveness Analysis of Passive SONAR System for Detection (수동소나시스템에서 탐지효과도 분석)

  • Cho, Jung-Hong;Kim, Jea-Soo
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.272-287
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    • 2012
  • The optimal use of sonar systems for detection is a practical problem in a given ocean environment. In order to quantify the mission achievability in general, measure of effectiveness(MOE) is defined for specific missions. In this paper, using the specific MOE for detection, which is represented as cumulative detection probability(CDP), an integrated software package named as Optimal Acoustic Search Path Planning(OASPP) is developed. For a given ocean environment and sonar systems, the discrete observations for detection probability(PD) are used to calculate CDP incorporating sonar and environmental parameters. Also, counter-detection probability is considered for vulnerability analysis for a given scenario. Through modeling and simulation for a simple case for which an intuitive solution is known, the developed code is verified.

Static Analysis Tools Against Cross-site Scripting Vulnerabilities in Web Applications : An Analysis

  • Talib, Nurul Atiqah Abu;Doh, Kyung-Goo
    • Journal of Software Assessment and Valuation
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.125-142
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    • 2021
  • Reports of rampant cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities raise growing concerns on the effectiveness of current Static Analysis Security Testing (SAST) tools as an internet security device. Attentive to these concerns, this study aims to examine seven open-source SAST tools in order to account for their capabilities in detecting XSS vulnerabilities in PHP applications and to determine their performance in terms of effectiveness and analysis runtime. The representative tools - categorized as either text-based or graph-based analysis tools - were all test-run using real-world PHP applications with known XSS vulnerabilities. The collected vulnerability detection reports of each tool were analyzed with the aid of PhpStorm's data flow analyzer. It is observed that the detection rates of the tools calculated from the total vulnerabilities in the applications can be as high as 0.968 and as low as 0.006. Furthermore, the tools took an average of less than a minute to complete an analysis. Notably, their runtime is independent of their analysis type.