SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Ein Team von SBA Sicherheitsforschern analysiert derzeit detailliert und umfassend für verschiedene Zielgruppen (Administratoren, User etc.) die Bedrohungslage und Konsequenzen, die von der als Heartbleed am 7. April bekanntgewordenen Schwachstelle ausgehen. Nach unserer Einschätzung sind diese wesentlich ernster, als bisher medial kommuniziert wurde. Details dazu werden von uns laufend… Read More
SBA Research ist auch dieses Jahr wieder am Security Forum 2014, der jährlichen IKT-Sicherheitskonferenz des Hagenberger Kreis, mit einem Messestand sowie einem Vortrag am ersten Konferenztag vertreten. Dimitris Simos spricht am ersten Konferenztag, dem 09.04.2014 von 10.10 Uhr – 11.00 Uhr, über “The Mathematics behind an Automated Penetration Testing Framework”. Weitere Infos… Read More
In the general meeting on 7 May 2013, Markus Klemen, CEO of SBA Research, was elected Vice President (Institutional Members) of the Austrian Computer Society. Furthermore, Prof. Stefanie Rinderle-Ma and KommR Hans-Jürgen Pollirer were elected resp. confirmed as Vice Presidents. More information about the Austrian Computer Society can be found… Read More
Unsere Social Snapshot Framework wurde in der Wintersemesterausgabe 2012 von DURST (Studentemagazin des Falters) vorgestellt. Der Artikel ist in der Online Ausgabe von DURST verfügbar, zum Artikel (“Was darf deine App von dir wissen?” Seite 9).
An interview concerning social network security. Ö1 aired the interview in their daily journals on June 8th 2012. Listen to the interview here: OE1_Journal120608_Huber
Markus Huber participated in a panel discussion on data-mining (more). The event was organized by TCC10 as their annual key-event. The event was also featured on IT-Press.
Pavol Zavarsky is holding a scientific talk at SBA Research about an overview of selected topics and research opportunities in information system security The focus of the presentation will be on two research-intensive fields of information security: (1) detection of web application vulnerabilities, and (2) methods of detecting malware that… Read More
Together with sipgate and ISMK Stralsund, Gabriel Gegenhuber, researcher at SBA Research and University of Vienna, and Michael Pucher, researcher at SBA research, discovered and investigated a vulnerability in the Voice of LTE (VoLTE) stack that is broadly used within MediaTek-based smartphones. ∞
In the Mediatek modem, there is a possible system crash due to a missing bounds check. This could lead to remote denial of service, if a UE has connected to a rogue base station controlled by the attacker, with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. ∞