SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Sebastian Schrittwieser’s Josef Ressel Center for Unified Threat Intelligence on Targeted Attacks (TARGET) successfully passed the mid-term evaluation and SBA Research hopes to join the research project in the next few months. Congratulation to the excellent presentations!… Read More
Zeeshan Ali Khan, an ERCIM Postdoc Fellow with the Department of Telematics of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), gave a talk on “Trust Management for securing the IoT networks”. Abstract This event is hosted by the Vienna ACM SIGSAC Chapter. Read More
In the context of the ERCIM Research Exchange Programme, SBA Research is hosting between February 23 and March 1, 2017 Dr. Zeeshan Ali Khan. Zeeshan is an ERCIM Postdoc Fellow with the Department of Telematics of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) working under the… Read More
At the ICISSP 2017 conference Edgar Weippl is on Steve Furnell’s panel discussing the future of research in cyber security with Elisa Bertino. Later today, Edgar teaches a tutorial on Research Ethics and Research Methods in Applied Information Security Research. Read More
Artemios G. Voyiatzis from SBA Research represents Austria in the Management Committee (MC) and the Working Group (WG) meetings of the COST Action RECODIS on February 13-14, 2017 in Wroclaw, Poland. The objective of the COST Action “Resilient Communication Services Protecting End-user Applications from Disaster-based Failures” (RECODIS) is to… Read More
Our journal article “Network-Based Secret Communication in Clouds: A Survey” from Johanna Ullrich, Tanja Zseby, Joachim Fabini and Edgar Weippl has been published in the high-impact journal IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. It is now available online. You can find a preprint here. Read More
Last week, project TRUC was officially started, with the first lectures happening at SBA. Focus of this FFG “Qualifizierungsnetz” will be to teach partner companies the state-of-the-art regarding cybersecurity, and defense-in-depth, to enable them towards developing secure software for e.g. Industrie 4.0 or cyber-physical systems. German abstract: Trusted Code (TRUC)… Read More
Today, Martin Schmiedecker presents at the HackPra lecture at RUB, Bochum. He joins an impressive list of previous speakers, among others Mario Heiderich, Stefan Esser, Ange Albertini or Felix ‘FX’ Lindner. Title: Turning Incident Response to Eleven Abstract: We’ve all been there – this one course at… Read More
Dimitris Simos highlight the great need to ensure an attack-free environment of software implementations by giving a talk about “Improving the Quality Assurance of Secure Software through Combinatorial Methods” at the Faculty of Informatics at TU Wien. The Abstract can be found… 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. ∞