SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
“Die Wächter über Datenströme und Web- attacken sind am Institut für Rechnergestützte Automation der TU Wien daheim. Jetzt haben sie einen der wichtigsten Hackerwettbewerbe weltweit gewonnen. Mit im Team: Martina Lindorfer aus Linz” (OÖN)… Read More
Kai Zhang (Computer & Information Sciences, Temple University), Topic: Matrix approximation. Nov 28, 3pm, SBA Title: Large Scale Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Learning Abstract Clustering is a fundamental data explorative step in pattern recognition and machine learning. This talk involves two types of clustering paradigms, the mixture models and graph-based… Read More
“We have subjected the cloud solution from A1 to an architecture analysis and can confirm that the data in the A1 Austria Cloud are stored only on servers that are operated in Austria,” confirms Markus Klemen, CEO of Secure Business Austria Research. (mehr…)
“Oft sind es erstaunlich simple Sicherheitslücken, die im Internet für Datenklau-Attacken ausgenützt werden.” (Gastkommentar Edgar Weippl, Wiener Zeitung)
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. ∞