SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications (JoWUA) Guest Editorial Board – Edgar Weippl, Simon Tjoa, Gerald Quirchmayr, and A Min Tjoa Guest Editorial Assistant of JoWUA Yvonne Poul. Time Schedule Paper submission due: October 31, 2012 First-round acceptance notification: November 30, 2012 Revision: December… Read More
After a successful 1st Young Researcher’s Day in March 2012, we now start in round two! Ingrid Schaumüller-Bichl and Edgar Weippl cordially invite to the 2nd Young Researcher’s Day which will take place during the OCG working group „IT Security“ on 29/11/2012. The basic idea behind this event is the… Read More
Am 06.11.2012 lädt die Innovationsplattform Digital Networked Data, bei der SBA Research als Mitglied tätig ist, zu einer Veranstaltung zum Thema “Transformation von Rechenzentren”. Nähere Infos zum Programm finden Sie hier: Transformation von Rechenzentren.
Wir freuen uns, dass wieder 2 Femtech-Praktika genehmigt wurden. Beim letzten Mal konnten wir uns beiden Praktikantinnen (Heidi Hobel und Katharina Krombholz) in ein fixes Dienstverhältnis als Forscherinnen übernehmen.
Heute fand das erste Kamingespräch bei SBA Research zum Thema “Innovative Cloudlösungen” statt. Ziel dieser neuen, sehr klein gehaltenen Veranstaltungsreihe ist es, bestehende Partner untereinander noch besser zu vernetzen, um neue Ideen, Konzepte und Projekte zu generieren und die Netzwerke der Partner zu erweitern. Zu diesem ersten Kamingespräch durften wir… Read More
Privacy and Security issues in Published or Outsourced Databases by Dimitris Sacharidis The concept of k-anonymity has received considerable attention due to the need of several organizations to release microdata without revealing the identity of individuals. Standard anonymization techniques assume the existence of a public database that a… 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. ∞