SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Dr. Eyal Kolman, Principal research scientist, CTO RSA Israel | RSA, The Security Division of EMC, gives a talk about “Machine Learning in security applications ”. Abstract Wednesday, June 18, 2014 10:30 -11:30… Read More
Prof. Dr. Thorsten Holz, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, gives a talk about “Improving the Security of Mobile Apps”. Abstract Friday, June 13, 2014 10:30 -11:30… Read More
Katharina Krombholz and Martina Lindorfer of SBA Research organize a TechNIKE workshop on “Security on the Internet: Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagramm & Co” at the TU Wien. The aim is to enthuse girls aged between 10 and 14 years for technology. This is an initiative of the TU Wien (project genderfair)… Read More
Prof. Peter Scheuermann, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University, USA and visiting professor at SBA Research gives a talk about “User Mobility Patterns: A Gold Mine for Intrusion Detection of Mobile Devices”. (Abstract) Wednesday, June 04, 2014 10:00 – 11:00
Adrian Dabrowski and Alexej Strelzow are accepted at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo for an internship. Alexej Strelzow will participate in the research area of Artificial Intelligence/Web Informatics which is headed by Prof. Hideaki Takeda. Alexej’s research focus will be Semantic Web and Linked (Open) Data. Adrian Dabrowski… Read More
The IMPACT 2014 was a great success: exciting expert lectures, posters and lightning talks on our latest research as well as plenty to eat and drink. The program, slides and some pictures are available here. We thank you for your participation!… Read More
Wie die Analyse von SBA Research zur Behebung der Heartbleed Sicherheitslücke in Österreich zeigen konnte, traf in etwa jeder dritte Administrator falsche Maßnahmen und die betroffenen Seiten blieben nach wie vor angreifbar. Diese Nachricht wurde nun auch von computerwelt.at, orf.at und derstandard.at sowie anderen Onlinemedien aufgegriffen. Die betreffenden Beiträge finden… 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. ∞