SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Edgar Weippl was invited as a guest at the Barbara Karlich Show, talking about security & privacy! https://buff.ly/2orx8H9 (Talk Edgar Weippl ~30 minutes)… Read More
Andreas Boll and Tobias Fink (WE_OWN_YOU) secured the third place (local) and 15th place (overall) at the hack.lu.CTF. Many thanks to the CTF team and most importantly the CTF LVA students from TU Wien. Hack.lu is an open convention/conference where people can discuss about computer security, privacy, information technology… Read More
Research Data Alliance 14th Plenary in Finland brings together data experts in research, industry and policy-making from all around the world and from all disciplines under the theme Data Makes the Difference. Tomasz Miksa chaired a session of the DMP Common Standards working group. He… Read More
Stefan Jakoubi gives a talk at the annual IT-LAW.AT symposium on November 28, 2019. This year´s event will circle around trade secrets vs. transparency, security, espionage and GDPR. Read more
Edgar Weippl gave a presentation on Security in Distributed Systems at the technology workshop for the financial industry “Empowered Edge für Banken und Versicherungen”. Read more
Let’s work together to improve cyber security in the European Union! Concordia partners, both from industry and academia, put together their offer for courses aimed at developing cybersecurity skills. “Towards a European Education Ecosystem for Cybersecurity” Concordia at a glance. Read More
Tomasz Miksa gave a keynote on “Engaging researchers with research data management through machine-actionable Data Management Plans” during the “Pomorska Konferencja Open Science (PKOS)” in Gdańsk, Poland. In his talk he discussed challenges in rolling out systems supporting open science and explained why machine-actionable Data Management Plans play… Read More
A group of dedicated young researchers presented their work in the course of the ICT Security Conference on October 1-2, 2019. Katharina Pfeffer (SBA) introduced her research in the area of Usable Security. The conference counting a total of 2500 attendees once more showed that cyber attacks present a… Read More
The 2nd Conference on Urban Resilience, organized by the Czech Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics Institute (CIIRC), targeted the interdisciplinary approach of fostering technological innovation in an emerging field such as Resilience. In regard to the specific focus on increasing the urban capabilities to tackle present and… 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. ∞