SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
The Call for Papers for CCS 2016 is out. Submission Deadline: May 23, 2016 23:59 UTC-11 The 23rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security will be held from October 24 – 28, 2016 at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria and is organized by SBA Research. Read More
The time has come to become a TLS-Hipster. Thomas Konrad gave a talk on how to get the knack of managing your SSL/TLS landscape. Free certificates from Let´s Encrypt, OCSP Stapling, HTTP Public Key Pinning, HSTS and detailed instructions on how to finally configure your TLS in the right way. Compatibility included. Martin… Read More
Our Tutorial ‘Cryptographic Currencies Crash Course‘ (Aljosha Judmayer, Edgar Weippl) has been accepted at WWW2016. We also have a workshop on empirical research methods at the conference.
EURASIP Journal on Information Security welcomes submissions to the new special issue on ARES 2015 / Cyber-Physical Systems In this special issue we want to explore security aspects of cyberphysical systems (CPS). We invite submission that address security issues of CPS and look at some specific topics related to… Read More
Artemios Voyiatzis has been nominated as a MC Member to the COST Action RECODIS and Stefan Brunthaler has been nominated as a MC Member to the COST Action EUTYPES. Peter Kieseberg has been nominated as MC Substitute to both Actions. COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology)
SBA Research welcomes and supports the initiative of the European Commission and the recommendations given in „The European Charter for Researchers“ and „The Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers“. Although SBA Research already has many of these recommendations in place, we will promote further implementations to support the work of… Read More
The ERCIM News No. 104 has just been published at http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en104/ SBA Research contributed with two articles: Women in IT Security Research: The Case of SBA Research by Veronika Nowak Trust for the Doctor in the Loop… Read More
Prof. Dr. Joachim Posegga, Chair of IT Security, University of Passau, Germany gives a guest talk about “Alice in the Sky – On Security of Air Traffic Control Communication”. Abstract Thursday, 14.01.2016, 15.00-16.45 This event is hosted by the Vienna ACM SIGSAC Chapter. Read More
Numerous members of SBA Research are currently at the Chaos Communication Congress (32c3) in Hamburg. If you happen to be there and spot one of us, approach us – we love to chat! Here are some pictures from derstandard.at and some more (random) pictures on flickr. This… 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. ∞