SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Tomasz Miksa presented recent developments of the Research Data Alliance working group on common standards for machine-actionable data management plans during a conference on “Engaging Researchers in Good Data Management” that was organised jointly by the University of Cambridge, SPARC Europe, and JISC. To learn more on the… Read More
The Seventh International Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Computer and Information Sciences (MACIS 2017) was held at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien, from November 15-17, 2017. After an oldtimer tramtour the participants around general… Read More
Edgar Weippl gives next week a keynote at “Industry 4.0 – Current Trends and Strategies” (Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) in co-operation with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and ASEA-UNINET)
Edgar Weippl attended the Senter Conference and at WG meeting on digital forensics. SBA Research will continue supporting the Senter initiative and will help establishing a permanent umbrella organization for the European Network of Centres of Excellence in Cybercrime. Read More
Today Alexei Zamyatin defended his Master’s thesis “Merged Mining: Analysis of Effects and Implications” and Philipp Schindler his Master’s thesis “Randomness for Blockchains Generating Publicly-Verifiable and Bias-Resistant Randomness in Decentralized Systems” successfully. Congratulations!… Read More
At the 13th Haifa Verification Conference [HVC], Bernhard Garn was presenting a tool demo [KERIS] for the accepted paper “KERIS: A CT Tool of the Linux Kernel with Dynamic Memory Analysis Capabilities” (Bernhard Garn, Fabian Würfl, and Dimitris E. Simos). HVC is organized by IBM Research… Read More
Today at the 13th Haifa Verification Conference [HVC] Dimitris Simos is invited to give a tutorial on Combinatorial Security Testing. HVC is organized by IBM Research Haifa. … Read More
Researchers present their research at ITSecX in St.Pölten. Wilfried Mayer will talk about our recent Usenix Paper on the usability of deploying and hardening HTTPS. Lisa Leonhartsberger will present her recent findings on secure authentication and authorization in cross-platform mobile app development. Alexandra Mai will give a talk on… 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. ∞