SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Adrian Dabrowski gives a talk at the “Telco Security Day” on March 18th. Sebastian Schrittwieser and Peter Frühwirt give a talk on Security Obsucrity, powered by HTTPS on March 20th in the main track at Troopers14. Read more. Troopers14 is the seventh edition of the IT-Security Conference,… Read More
On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, the Minister of Technology, Doris Bures, invited Katharina Krombholz, IT security researcher at SBA Research, to the BMVIT for a photo shooting. Katharina Krombholz started her career in research with a funded FEMtech internship and was subsequently offered a full-time employment at… Read More
The CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional) has been rated #1 (1, 2) in the list of skill certifications that will increase in value during the first half of 2014. The CSSLP certifies your application security competency within the software development lifecycle and helps you prove your proficiency… Read More
Guest talk by Stefan Mangard (TU Graz) Protecting Embedded Systems against Side-channel and Fault Attacks During the last 15 years there has been a kind of an arms race between attacks and countermeasures on embedded systems. In particular the process in attack setups/techniques for side-channel and fault attacks… Read More
Aljosha Judmayer und Martin Mulazzani erklären in einem aktuellen Artikel in der Wiener Zeitung die technischen Hintergründe und Probleme zum Thema Bitcoins. Den ganzen Artikel finden Sie hier. … Read More
Stefan Jakoubi und Andreas Tomek sprechen als Experten bei der Veranstaltung “Weltkonzern als Krisenfeuerwehr: Risikomanagement – Special / Cyber Risks” , organisiert von der AON Austria, zu dem Thema: “Cyber Risks – Wieviel Sicherheit braucht meine Firma? & “Live Hacking”. Veranstaltungsprogramm und Details zur Anmeldung finden Sie hier.
Edgar Weippl gives a lecture series at NII, Tokyo on Recent Trends in Cyber Security. Edgar Weippl explains the Dining Cryprographers’ Problem. 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. ∞