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2023-09-08
Yu, Gang, Li, Zhenyu.  2022.  Analysis of Current situation and Countermeasures of Performance Evaluation of Volunteers in Large-scale Games Based on Mobile Internet. 2022 8th Annual International Conference on Network and Information Systems for Computers (ICNISC). :88–91.
Using the methods of literature and interview, this paper analyzes the current situation of performance evaluation of volunteers in large-scale games based on mobile Internet, By analyzing the popularity of mobile Internet, the convenience of performance evaluation, the security and privacy of performance evaluation, this paper demonstrates the necessity of performance evaluation of volunteers in large-scale games based on mobile Internet, This paper puts forward the Countermeasures of performance evaluation of volunteers in large-scale games based on mobile Internet.
2023-09-01
Küçük, Düzgün, Yakut, Ömer Faruk, Cevız, Barış, Çakar, Emre, Ertam, Fatih.  2022.  Data Manipulation and Digital Forensics Analysis on WhatsApp Application. 2022 15th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptography (ISCTURKEY). :19—24.
WhatsApp is one of the rare applications that has managed to become one of the most popular instant messaging applications all over the world. While inherently designed for simple and fast communication, privacy features such as end-to-end encryption have made confidential communication easy for criminals aiming to commit illegal acts. However, as it meets many daily communication and communication needs, it has a great potential to be digital evidence in interpersonal disputes. In this study, in parallel with the potential of WhatsApp application to contain digital evidence, the abuse of this situation and the manipulation method of multimedia files, which may cause wrong decisions by the judicial authorities, are discussed. The dangerous side of this method, which makes the analysis difficult, is that it can be applied by anyone without the need for high-level root authority or any other application on these devices. In addition, it is difficult to detect as no changes can be made in the database during the analysis phase. In this study, a controlled experimental environment was prepared on the example scenario, the manipulation was carried out and the prepared system analysis was included. The results obtained showed that the evidence at the forensic analysis stage is open to misinterpretation.
2023-02-03
Skaug, Kirsten Lunde, Smebye, Elise Breivik, Tola, Besmir, Jiang, Yuming.  2022.  Keeping Connected in Internet-Isolated Locations. 2022 Seventh International Conference On Mobile And Secure Services (MobiSecServ). :1–7.
In many scenarios, Internet connectivity may not be available. In such situations, device-to-device (D2D) communication may be utilized to establish a peer-to-peer (P2P) network among mobile users in the vicinity. However, this raises a fundamental question as is how to ensure secure communication in such an infrastructure-less network. In this paper, we present an approach that enables connectivity between mobile devices in the vicinity and supports secure communication between users in Internet-isolated locations. Specifically, the proposed solution uses Wi-Fi Aware for establishing a P2P network and the mTLS (mutual Transport Layer Security) protocol to provide mutually authenticated and encrypted message transfer. Besides, a novel decentralized peer authentication (DPA) scheme compatible with Wi-Fi Aware and TLS is proposed, which enables peers to verify other peers to join the network. A proof-of-concept instant messaging application has been developed to test the proposed DPA scheme and to evaluate the performance of the proposed overall approach. Experimental results, which validate the proposed solution, are presented with findings and limitations discussed.
ISSN: 2640-558X
2022-01-10
Govender, Castello, van Niekerk, Brett.  2021.  Secure Key Exchange by NFC for Instant Messaging. 2021 Conference on Information Communications Technology and Society (ICTAS). :27–33.
This study offers an alternative to current implementations of key exchange by utilizing NFC technologies within android mobile devices. Supporting key exchange protocols along with cryptographic algorithms are offered, which meet current security standards whilst maintaining a short key length for optimal transfer between devices. Peer-to-peer and Host Card Emulation operational modes are observed to determine the best suited approach for key exchange. The proposed model offers end to end encryption between Client-Client as opposed to the usual Client-Server encryption offered by most Instant Messaging applications.
2021-01-28
Segoro, M. B., Putro, P. A. Wibowo.  2020.  Implementation of Two Factor Authentication (2FA) and Hybrid Encryption to Reduce the Impact of Account Theft on Android-Based Instant Messaging (IM) Applications. 2020 International Workshop on Big Data and Information Security (IWBIS). :115—120.

Instant messaging is an application that is widely used to communicate. Based on the wearesocial.com report, three of the five most used social media platforms are chat or instant messaging. Instant messaging was chosen for communication because it has security features in log in using a One Time Password (OTP) code, end-to-end encryption, and even two-factor authentication. However, instant messaging applications still have a vulnerability to account theft. This account theft occurs when the user loses his cellphone. Account theft can happen when a cellphone is locked or not. As a result of this account theft, thieves can read confidential messages and send fake news on behalf of the victim. In this research, instant messaging application security will be applied using hybrid encryption and two-factor authentication, which are made interrelated. Both methods will be implemented in 2 implementation designs. The implementation design is securing login and securing sending and receiving messages. For login security, QR Code implementation is sent via email. In sending and receiving messages, the message decryption process will be carried out when the user is authenticated using a fingerprint. Hybrid encryption as message security uses RSA 2048 and AES 128. Of the ten attempts to steal accounts that have been conducted, it is shown that the implementation design is proven to reduce the impact of account theft.

2019-12-16
Zhu, Yan, Yang, Shuai, Chu, William Cheng-Chung, Feng, Rongquan.  2019.  FlashGhost: Data Sanitization with Privacy Protection Based on Frequent Colliding Hash Table. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC). :90–99.

Today's extensive use of Internet creates huge volumes of data by users in both client and server sides. Normally users don't want to store all the data in local as well as keep archive in the server. For some unwanted data, such as trash, cache and private data, needs to be deleted periodically. Explicit deletion could be applied to the local data, while it is a troublesome job. But there is no transparency to users on the personal data stored in the server. Since we have no knowledge of whether they're cached, copied and archived by the third parties, or sold by the service provider. Our research seeks to provide an automatic data sanitization system to make data could be self-destructing. Specifically, we give data a life cycle, which would be erased automatically when at the end of its life, and the destroyed data cannot be recovered by any effort. In this paper, we present FlashGhost, which is a system that meets this challenge through a novel integration of cryptography techniques with the frequent colliding hash table. In this system, data will be unreadable and rendered unrecoverable by overwriting multiple times after its validity period has expired. Besides, the system reliability is enhanced by threshold cryptography. We also present a mathematical model and verify it by a number of experiments, which demonstrate theoretically and experimentally our system is practical to use and meet the data auto-sanitization goal described above.

2019-01-31
Zhang, H., Chen, L., Liu, Q..  2018.  Digital Forensic Analysis of Instant Messaging Applications on Android Smartphones. 2018 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC). :647–651.

In this paper, we discuss the digital forensic procedure and techniques for analyzing the local artifacts from four popular Instant Messaging applications in Android. As part of our findings, the user chat messages details and contacts were investigated for each application. By using two smartphones with different brands and the latest Android operating systems as experimental objects, we conducted digital investigations in a forensically sound manner. We summarize our findings regarding the different Instant Messaging chat modes and the corresponding encryption status of artifacts for each of the four applications. Our findings can be helpful to many mobile forensic investigations. Additionally, these findings may present values to Android system developers, Android mobile app developers, mobile security researchers as well as mobile users.