SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
We took the second place with the project Secure 2.0 (FIT-IT) in this year’s FIT-IT awards. Secure 2.0 ———– Secure 2.0 project aims to secure the Information Sharing on social networks for individuals by proposing an innovative machine learning technique for analysis of big social data. Read More
Our paper “Ontological mapping of information security best-practice guidelines” has been accepted at the 12th International Conference on Business Information Systems.
15th of January 2009 10:00 at Secure Business Austria: “Understanding the perpetration of employee computer crime in the organizational context” 16th of January 2009 15:00 at Secure Business Austria: “Motivations for employee computer crime in the organizational context”
Our paper “Formalizing Information Security Knowledge” has been accepted at the ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security 2009 (Project Details).
Our paper “Automated Risk and Utility Management” has been accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations 2009.
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. ∞