SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Philipp Reisinger talks about “Two Worlds and one Reality – Approaching Security and Risk in the real and the virtual World” at tomorrow´s Fachkonferenz Security at Novomatic Forum. Details and Registration
Accompanied by bright sunshine an adventurous group of SBA hikers set off to discover the surroundings of Vienna on April 24. Rest at Habsburgwarte… Read More
Philipp Reisinger talks about “Two Worlds and one Reality – Approaching Security and Risk in the real and the virtual World” at tomorrow´s Arrow DDos Day in the Suite Hotel Kahlenberg. Register for free: Details and Agenda Arrow DDoS Day 2018… Read More
Long-term vision is the design and evaluation of methods and mechanisms for mitigating security risks both in the PSE and operation phases as foundation for secure production systems according to the Industrie 4.0 vision. With SQI we will enable the secure design, maintenance, and use of the digital data models for production systems and their components.
Die Presse, oe-journal, economy-austria, APA, science.apa, DerStandard. Read More
As an ambassador for Young Science, Katharina Krombholz visits elementary schools all over Austria to give insights into how the internet works. Informing children about related dangers and ways to protect themselves is a special concern of the ambassador program. More information … Read More
Dimitris Simos chairs the Seventh International Workshop on Combinatorial Testing (IWCT 2018) on April 13, 2018. Kristoffer Kleine presents the paper “CAmetrics: A Tool for Advanced Combinatorial Analysis and Measurement of Test Sets” (joint work with Manuel Leithner and Dimitris E. Simos). IWCT 2018 takes place in Västerås, Sweden and… Read More
Our Decentralized Systems Group and Edgar Weippl organized together with Foteini Baldimtsi (George Mason University – Fairfax, US), Stefan Katzenbeisser (TU Darmstadt, DE) and Volkmar Lotz (SAP Labs France – Mougins, FR) the Dagstuhl Seminar on Blockchains, Smart… 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. ∞