SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Tomasz Miksa and Bernhard Gößwein presented their paper on Data identification and process monitoring for reproducible earth observation research at the 15th IEEE eScience conference in San Diego. Earth observation researchers use specialised computing services for satellite image processing offered by various data… Read More
SBA Research organizes jointly with the FH Upper Austria and the Austrian Computer Society the Young Researchers’ Day, co-located with the IKT Sicherheitskonferenz 2019. The Young Researchers’ Day brings together information security graduates from several Austrian institutions. For… Read More
The special issue on Security and Privacy in Smart Cyber-physical Systems was published in the latest edition of the Computer & Security Journal. Details
The cyber security guideline for production plants was established by members of the platform industry 4.0 expert group “Security and safety”. We are content to have had the opportunity to provide expertise from a security research point of view.
Philipp Reisinger gives a talk on the mitigation of cyber security risks in a connected world at the “logical thinkers club” on September 25, 2019. Logical Thinkers Club
20 hand picked computer science students joined the “Ethical Hacking-Boot-camp” hosted by the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences from September 4-6, 2019. The workshop was organized by the IT Security Hub Austria, SBA Research and the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, represented among others by Mr. FH-Prof. Univ.-Doz. Read More
As an educational outreach event organized by TU Wien, Princeton University, and SBA Research, the 1st International Summer School on Security & Privacy for Blockchains and Distributed Ledger Technologies took place between September 2-5, 2019. Held in Vienna, Austria in its first year, it was organized as a mix of… Read More
This year´s ARES & CD-MAKE conference took place at the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK from August 26-29, 2019. On campus accommodation provided a great possibility for 230 participants from 33 countries to discuss the various aspects of security from early morning until late evening. For the third year… 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. ∞