SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Johanna Ullrich finally got her PhD officially awarded sub auspiciis Praesidentis in presence of the Austrian president Dr. Alexander Van der Bellen. This type of promotion is the highest honor for achievement, and the laureates receive a gold ring from the president. The tradition dates back to the 17th… Read More
Marc Juarez from KU Leuven gave a guest lecture at TU Wien (in this years “Privacy Enhancing Technologies” course). He spoke about “Website Fingerprinting Attacks and Defenses in the Wild” on December 1st 2017.
Together with TU Wien, SBA Research is exhibiting at the leading industry fair for industrial production systems SPS IPC Drives, taking place from November 28-30, 2017 in Nürnberg, Germany. Under the slogan “IT-Security & Quality for Industry 4.0” SBA Research is presenting its concepts and strategies for effective protection… Read More
Last week Andreas Ekelhart (SBA) and Elmar Kiesling (TU Wien) received a scientific promotion for their research on Semantic Processing of Security Event Streams.
Tomasz Miksa and Kevin Ashley from the Digital Curation Centre in the UK organised a workshop on Research Data Lifecycle and Machine-actionable Data Management Plans that was held at the University of Vienna on the 22nd of November. Representatives of major Austrian universities and funding institutions worked together to… Read More
Edgar Weippl gives a keynote on Security in Production Systems Engineering in Hanoi, Vietnam. The workshop is organized by DAAD and ASEA-UNINET. Read More
Shimon Machida, Adrian Dabrowski, Edgar Weippl, and Isao Echizen. PrivacyTag: A community-based method for protecting privacy of photographed subjects in online social networks. In 16th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e- Business, e-Services and e-Society, pages 261–275. Springer LNCS, 11 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68557-1 24, best paper award. The paper… 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. ∞