Recent Emerging Security Threats and Countermeasure Concepts in Mobile User Authentication

Dongmin Choi² and Ilyong Chung ²⁺

¹Division of Undeclared Majors, Chosun University, Gwangju, Korea
jdmcc@chosun.ac.kr

²Department of Computer Engineering, Chosun University, Gwangju, Korea
iyc@chosun.ac.kr

Abstract

Over the past decades, mobile security threats have continued to change according to the mobile environment, which includes technical support such as mobile device specifications and network infrastructure. The current focus on security threats has not been on program defects in mobile devices but on errors made by human users (i.e., human or user errors). To prevent the damage from emerging threats, researchers have continued to propose alternative solutions. In this paper, we introduce several existing solutions corresponding to recent emerging security threats and briefly discuss the revealed problems and countermeasures.

Keywords: Mobile Security, Authentication, Graphical Password, Pattern Password, Keystroke Dynamics.

+: Corresponding author: Ilyong Chung
Department of Computer Engineering, Chosun University, Seoseok-dong, Dong-gu, Gwangju, 501759, Korea
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IT Convergence Practice (INPRA), Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 10-17, March 2016 [pdf]