SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
ARES 2015 was held from 24 – 28 August 2015 in Toulouse, France. Thanks to 140 participants from 34 countries for participating! @ Conference @ Conference Keynote Peter Eckersley Keynote Rainer Böhme Mayor’s Reception Mayor’s Reception… Read More
Sebastian Gabmeyer, Business Informatics Group, TU Wien gives a talk about “Implementing Reliable Software with Model-Driven Development” Abstract Tuesday, 08.09.2015 , 17:00-18:00 This event is hosted by the IEEE CS/SMCS Austria Chapter. Read More
The paper “Privacy is Not an Option: Attacking the IPv6 Privacy Extension” by Johanna Ullrich, Edgar Weippl (both SBA Research) has been accepted for publication in the 18th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID). RAID 2015 takes place from November, 2nd – 4th, 2015 in Kyoto,… Read More
First day of ARES Conference, which is held from 24 – 28 August 2015 at the Université Paul Sabatier, organized by SBA Research. We are welcoming 150 participants from more than 35 countries. Read More
Members of SBA are at the CCC Camp in Mildenberg, Germany which takes place in an old brick factory from August 13-17, 2015. Despite attending talks on new attacks they will participate in the CTF and present some of their work in workshops & lightning talks. Read More
The video presentation of the Security Afterworks Summer Special: Hacking Team Hacked? is now available on YouTube. The summer special took place on August 6, 2015 at SBA Research. More Information… Read More
The paper “Exciting FPGA Cryptographic Trojans using Combinatorial Testing” by Paris Kitsos (TEI of Western Greece and Industrial Systems Institute/RC ‘Athena’), Dimitris. E. Simos (SBA Research), Jose Torres-Jimenez (CINVESTAV-Tamaulipas) and Artemios G. Voyiatzis (SBA Research and Industrial Systems Institute/RC ‘Athena’) has been accepted for publication in the 26th IEEE International… Read More
On August 4th, 2015 Bernhard Garn presents the paper “Attack Pattern-Based Combinatorial Testing with Constraints for Web Security Testing” at the IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security 2015 (QRS 2015) . The paper is a joint work between the Graz University of Technology (J. Bozic and F. Wotawa) and SBA… Read More
Aaron Zauner presented our preliminary results on the usage of TLS in the email ecosystem at the IETF meeting last week. As part of our project TLSiP we are actively scanning the Internet (/0) for TLS configurations as well as its problems with it. As expected,… Read More
After a fruitful semester at SBA Research during his sabbatical leave between February and July 2015, Artemios G. Voyiatzis will be joining SBA Research on August 2015 and further develop our research programme. Artemios, a designated ACM Senior Member (2015), also joins the Vienna ACM SIGSAC Chapter. With Artemios… 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. ∞