SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
„Our KIRAS-project “Darknet Analysis” is currently featured with an article in the newspaper “derStandard”, as well as in “derStandard.at”: http://derstandard.at/2000062980138-629/Wenn-die-Daten-von-Unschuldigen-im-Darknet-landen“
The paper “Grid Shock: Coordinated Load-Change Attacks on Power Grids” by Adrian Dabrowski, Johanna Ullrich, and Edgar Weippl was accepted for publication at the 2017 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 33). Our work analyzes whether large-scale botnets are able to modulate electric power consumption in a coordinate way… Read More
The paper “Merged Mining: Curse or Cure?” by Aljosha Judmayer, Alexei Zamyatin, Nicholas Stifter, Artemios G. Voyiatzis, and Edgar Weippl was accepted for publication at the 1st International Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology (CBT’17), held in conjunction with ESORICS 2017. Abstract: Merged mining refers to… Read More
Numerous members of SBA Research are currently at the SHA2017 hackercamp in the Netherlands. Martin Schmiedecker will present “An academic’s view to incident response” (Details here). Abstract: A timely reaction to security incidents is without doubts important. And while the techniques of digital forensics can come pretty close… Read More
For the platform Blockchain Austria, a few well-known experts from different areas were found as partners. For example, Blockchainhub Graz, the research center SBA Research and the law firm Stadler Völkel are involved. Some proposals are presentend in a “9 point plan for Austria”. Read More
Adrian Dabrowski is attending Black Hat USA 2017 security conference, which takes place from July 22 – 27, 2017 in Las Vegas, NV, USA. More than 15.000 people are attending the 20th edition of the conference. Read More
Johanna Ullrich is attending the Meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF99) in Prague at the moment. On Wednesday, she gave a talk presenting her survey on IPv6 security and privacy vulnerabilties. The survey can be found here. Read More
Letitia Kernschmidt spent last semester at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). She took several courses and enjoyed in particular the course on Information Security Policy and Management. It focused on the non-technical aspects of information security such as product liability laws, cyber-insurance, data- breach notification laws, and regulations about minimum security… 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. ∞