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SBA Research @ e-day 2016

Markus Klemen @ e-day 2016 SBA Research contributed two talks to this years’ e-day of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce. Markus Klemen talked about loyalty and motivation of employees with regard to ethical issues and psychological considerations. Peter Kieseberg described current social engineering tricks and attack vectors. Peter… Read More

SBA Security Advisory – KNX management software ETS – remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2015-8299)

The vulnerability is caused by a buffer overflow in a memcpy operation when parsing specailly crafted KNXnet/IP packets in the Group messages monitor (aka. Falcon). An according proof-of-concept exploit which was tested on an affected ETS version installed on a Windows XP SP3 can be found below. The proof-of-concept exploit generates the UDP packet which triggers the vulnerability and should at least crash the application (it requires python and scapy to run). Read More
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Markus Klemen zum Thema Secure E-Government am VIS!T Symposium

Markus Klemen erläutert am heutigen VISI!T Symposium (Verwaltung integriert sichere Informationstechnologie) die Herausforderungen der aktuell laufenden KIRAS Studie zum Entwurf eines Zertifizierungsstandards für E-Government. Der Grundgedanke des Symposiums “Verwaltung integriert sichere Informationstechnologie” (ViS!T) ist die multilaterale Diskussion des Themas IT-Sicherheit (in Strategien, IT-Vorhaben, Projekten) in den vier deutschsprachigen europäischen Staaten Deutschland,… Read More

Edgar Weippl has been reelected Chair of IFIP Working Group 8.4

Edgar Weippl has been reelected Chair of IFIP Working Group 8.4. Established in 2001, the working group provides a reference point and a focus for multi-disciplinary research and practice in E-Business Information Systems. The intention is to extend the IFIP community’s focus on E-Business to recognize, acknowledge and facilitate research… Read More

Markus Huber hält einen Vortrag auf dem IKT-Forum der FH Salzburg

Das diesjährige IKT-Forum geht den Umwälzungen, die Wistleblower Edward Snowden mit seinen Enthüllungen über Prism, Tempora & Co ins Rollen gebracht hat, nach. Der Schutz der eigenen Daten und die Vermeidung des digitalen Fußabdrucks ist nicht nur ein Grundrecht sondern auch eine Herausforderung für jeden Nutzer von Internettechnologien. SBA Research… Read More