SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Special Issue: ARES 2012 7th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security; Information Security Technical Report, Elsevier, Volume 17, Issue 4, Pages 129-252 (May 2013), edited by Shujun Li and Edgar Weippl is online.
Katharina Krombholz und Adrian Dabrowski setzen die Tradition der Zusammenarbeit mit dem National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokio fort. Sebastian Schrittwieser besuchte 2011 das Institut im Herzen Tokios, Martina Lindorfer war Anfang 2013 dort und Edgar Weippl hielt im Februar 2013 eine Gastvortragsreihe. Katharina Krombholz ist von März 2013… Read More
We were at IEEE S&P last week. Sebastian presented his paper “Ethics in Security Research: Which lines should not be crossed?” at the Cyber-security Research Ethics Dialog & Strategy Workshop (CREDS 2013) and Martin presented “Fast and Reliable Browser Identification with JavaScript Engine Fingerprinting” at Web 2.0 Security &… Read More
Im Rahmen der 3. KIRAS Fachtagung präsentiert Heidi Hobel heute am 22.5.2013 im Austria Trend Hotel Park Royal Palace Vienna ein Poster zum Projekt „Malware in Silicon – Studie zu Schadroutinen in Hardware-Komponenten“. Im Rahmen dieser Studie wurde eine Analyse der heutigen Hardware-Produktionsprozesse durchgeführt sowie mögliche Bedrohungsmodelle und Gegenmaßnahmen… Read More
Im Rahmen der Veranstaltung “Wirtschaftsimpulse durch Forschung” sprechen Christian Platzer, Peter Frühwirt und Edgar Weippl über Sicherheitsaspekte bei Big Data und Cloud-Computing (Details…)
Sebastian Schrittwieser presented our paper on malware obfuscation through covert computation at AsiaCCS 2013 in Hangzhou, China. Sebastian Schrittwieser and Stefan Katzenbeisser and Peter Kieseberg and Markus Huber and Manuel Leithner and Martin Mulazzani and Edgar R. Weippl, “Covert Computation – Hiding Code in Code for Obfuscation Purposes,” in Proceedings… Read More
SBA Research was instrumental in the founding of the (ISC)² Austrian Chapter which will be used as an exchange and networking platform for Austrian IT security experts. (press release) (website (ISC)2 Austria Chapter) The foundation of the (ISC)2 Austria Chapters in the media:… 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. ∞