SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
“Measuring Cookies and Web Privacy in a Post-GDPR World” by Adrian Dabrowski, Georg Merzdovnik, Johanna Ullrich, Gerald Sendera and Edgar Weippl has been accepted at the 20th Passive and Active Measurements Conference (PAM). The paper investigates the impact of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on the use… Read More
SBA is partner of the Women&Code Hackathon 2019. The initiative launched by Barbara Ondrisek and Eva Lettner offers free programming courses for starters with the main objective to bring more women into IT. Read more… Read More
Manuel Leithner (MaTRIS Research Group) presented his paper titled “DOMdiff: Identification and Classification of Inter-DOM Modifications” (Joint work with Dimitris E. Simos) at the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2018 (WI2018), which took place in Santiago, Chile, from 2nd to 5th of December. The paper was published… Read More
Julia Pammer organized an interactive workshop for IoT4CPS at the ICT 2018: Imagine Digital. The 20 year anniversary brought the ICT conference back to Vienna where it premiered in 1998. With a confirmed number of over 6000 participants this year´s conference broke all previous records. Read More
The world´s largest blockchain center is currently emerging in Vienna. The ABC (Austrian Blockchain Center) will combine expertise in the areas of basic research and practical implementation. Read more The center will receive 17 mio. € in funding. Read more
“Echoes of the Past: Recovering Blockchain Metrics From Merged Mining”( N. Stifter, P. Schindler, A. Judmayer, A. Zamyatin, A. Kern, E. Weippl) will appear at FC19. Pre-print available here
The sec4dev conference + bootcamp submission deadline has officially been extended until December 14, 2018. Make sure to submit your talk or secure your Early Bird ticket! Conference 2019… Read More
SBA helps with the organization of the ROOTS Workshop co-located with DeepSec. The 2nd Reversing and Offensive-oriented Trends Symposium 2018 (ROOTS) takes place in the Imperial Riding School Vienna tomorrow. Roots DeepSec-Schedule
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. ∞