SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Die aktuelle Ausgabe der Zeitschrift Öffentliche Sicherheit enthält einen Artikel zum IKT-Sicherheitsseminar, wo Markus Klemen einen Vortrag zum Thema Soziale Netzwerke gehalten hat. Read More
The key researcher Stefan Katzenbeisser gave a talk at 28C3 (derStandard.at, heise.de, futurezone.at, diePresse.com, reuters.com, telegraph.co.uk, bbc.co.uk)
Ein Praktikumsantrag im Rahmen des Femtech-Programms (http://www.ffg.at/femtech-praktika) wurde angenommen. Katharina Krombholz wird im Jänner ein Praktikum und eine Diplomarbeit zum Sicherheit in Sozialen Netzwerken beginnen und bestehende Forschungsarbeiten unterstützen.
Johann Steszgal (ETSI ITS WG5) gives a lecture on Security Issues of IPv6 Communications in Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems for students of our class Organizational Aspects of Security.
Our researchers plan future research in cooperation with NII: Dr. N. Sonehara, Information and Society Research Director at NII and Project Reader at ROIS/TRIC. Dr. Y. Ichifuji, ROIS/TRIC Dr. I. Echizen, Associate Professor at NII. Dr. S. Wohlgemuth, Associate Professor at NII and ROIS/TRIC … Read More
Starting at 3pm Dr. N. Sonehara, “Data-centric Socio-Informatics Supporting Public Policy Decision Making, NII and ROIS/TRIC. Dr. Y. Ichifuji, “Web Data Driven Information Circulation and Its application of Resilience Evaluation”, ROIS/TRIC Dr. I. Echizen, “Multimedia Location Privacy Control Mechanism”, NII Dr. S. Wohlgemuth, “Resilient Social System Design… Read More
Sigrun Goluch: The development of homomorphic cryptography From RSA to Gentry’s privacy homomorphism Ever since the discovery of public-key cryptography by Diffie and Hellman in 1976, the necessity for total privacy of digital data has become stronger and stronger, especially since the internet has become an indispensable part of both… 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. ∞