SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Sebastian Schrittwieser, who worked for SBA Research until 2013, received a scientific recognition award by the federal state of Lower Austria for his work and dissertation on code obfuscation. The full article can be found here. (in german)
Secure Connected Trustable Things” (SCOTT) brings together 57 partners from 12 countries (EU and Brazil) and from academia and industry alike. The SCOTT consortium will work in the next three years to extend the Internet of Things for wirelessly connected smart sensors and actuators to be used in building and… Read More
The (ISC)² & ISACA Austrian Chapters jointly organized the one-day event “Cyber Sicherheit zeigt Zähne – Trends | Regularien | Vorgaben | Entwicklungen 2017+”, which took place on October 12, 2017 in the beautiful rooms of the Kunsthistorisches Musem Wien. Stefan Jakoubi, SBA Research and Jimmy Heschl, Red Bull moderated… Read More
Today, Tomasz Miksa gave a talk on “Machine-actionable Data Management Plans (DMPs)” at the general assembly of the e-Infrastructures Austria+ project. The talk presented benefits of the next generation machine-actionable Data Management Plans to stakeholders involved in the research data life-cycle: infrastructure operators, repository managers, researchers, funders, and policy makers. Read More
The election for the Austrian IEEE Chapter Systems, Men, and Cybernetics is finished and we are proud to announce that Peter Kieseberg and Edgar Weippl of SBA will continue their work as chair and first vice-chair respectively. For more information and interest in joining the chapter, please contact pkieseberg@sba-research.org.
Philipp Reisinger will talk about “The Defender’s Dilemma” at the JT Computer Business Breakfast taking place at the FH Burgenland in Eisenstadt today. For more information please see here.
On October 9th and 10th, 25 researchers collaborating in the MyHealthMyData project meet at SBA Research to discuss issues of secure and privacy-preserving data sharing in e-Health applications. MyHealthMyData implements a new way to share private information and empower their primary owners, the patients. The project uses novel approaches… Read More
Today, Peter Kieseberg presented our work „Real-time Forensics through Endpoint Visibility“ at the „9th EAI International Conference on Digital Forensics & Cyber Crime“ (ICDF2C2017) in Prague.
Today Philipp Reisinger will talk about “The Defender’s Dilemma” at the Austrian IT Security day in Klagenfurt. The IT Security day takes place in conjunction with IT Carinthia Further information can be found here.
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. ∞