SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
SBA Research nimmt am nächsten Innovationsgespräch der Stadt Wien zum Thema „IT-Security und Datenschutz“ am 19. April 2012 teil! Neben spannenden Vorträgen werden wir auch als Speeddating-Kandidaten vor Ort sein um in Einzelgesprächen inhaltliche Details zu vertiefen! Das genaue Programm: http://bit.ly/ypkezU Die offizielle Einladung: ZIT – Die Technologieagentur der Stadt Wien GmbH und… Read More
Am 21.3.2012 findet in der Industriellenvereinigung am Schwarzenbergplatz das Management Forum zum Thema “Mittelfristige Prognose der österreichischen Wirtschaft bis 2016” statt. Markus Klemen wird als Teilnehmer der Podiumsdiskussion vertreten sein. Programm und Anmeldung
SBA Research is holding the current workshop for the international DIAMONDS project in Vienna (http://www.itea2-diamonds.org/index.html). This meeting brings together specialists from all over europe to discuss current developments on the security testing sector.
“Arguably, one of the major shortcomings of many organizations today is an inherent division between the security team and the network and system administration staff. To bridge this gap, and also to enable administrators in smaller companies to perform their duties in a more security-oriented fashion, Timothy “Thor” Mullen’s Microsoft… Read More
International Journal of Secure Software Engineering (IJSSE), Special Issue Call for Papers “Lessons learned in engineering secure & dependable Web applications” Special Issue Editors: Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF ICT, Norway Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria Riccardo Scandariato, KU Leuven, Belgium Cfp… Read More
Dynamix: A Community-centric, Plug-and-Play Context Framework Mobile users increasingly expect software applications to adapt fluidly across a broad range of everyday situations, environments and hardware platforms. Although contextual information is widely recognized as an essential foundation of self-adapting software, existing context modeling and management techniques presuppose significant domain expertise in… 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. ∞