SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
At the Applications of Computer Algebra Conference (ACA 2015), Bernhard Garn and Dimitris Simos give a talk about “Algebraic Modelling of Covering Arrays”. They present a novel approach to model Covering Arrays, which are at the center of their research field Combinatorial Testing. This theoretical result can be directly used… Read More
Katharina Krombholz is currently attending SOUPS 2015 (Symposium on usable privacy and security) in Ottawa, Canada. Today, she presented a position paper at the Workshop on Inclusive Privacy and Security and participated in a panel discussion on methods.
“Die OCG hat über die Arbeit des Österreichischen Integrationsfonds den ECDL Best Practice Award in der Kategorie “ECDL in Society” gewonnen. Das zeigt, dass Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen wie ECDL und ECDL Advanced für Personen mit Migrationshintergrund von grundlegender Bedeutung sind. Sich hier als OCG in Bezug auf IT aktiv, konstruktiv und unterstützend… Read More
RC4 is no longer considered secure, and should not be used anymore according to RFC7465 (RFC draft). New attacks can be used to decipher the communication content within days, like session cookies. The past weeks we have been busy scanning more than 2 million HTTPS servers… Read More
Katharina Krombholz im Standard über ihre Forschung zur Verbesserung der Benutzerfreundlichkeitvon Technologien. Den Artikel gibt es hier zu lesen. Read More
SBA Research, the Federal Ministry of the Interior, futurezone.at and the Kuratorium Sicheres Österreich are organising a competition for IT security Start-ups and ideas for cybersecurity solutions. The deadline for submissions (in German or English) is September 30, 2015. Competition entries are to be send to redaktion@futurezone.at. A jury… Read More
To clarify what we are scanning on the Internet, here are some details on the project and which tools we use. Most importantly: if you want your IP to be excluded from future scans, please send an email to abuse@sba-research.org. For quite some time now we scan Internet-wide for well-known… Read More
Katharina Krombholz, researcher at SBA Research, has been awarded as Fem Tech Expert of the month July by the Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology. The goal of this initiative is to promote successful female scientists in technical fields. See the interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgc9rN91TGM&feature=youtu.be… Read More
Antitza Dantcheva, post-doctoral fellow at the STARS team, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France, gives a guest talk about “Soft Biometrics: Applications in Security, Beauty Estimation and Healthcare”. Abstract Tuesday, 07.07.2015 , 14:00-15:00 This event is hosted by the Vienna ACM SIGSAC Chapter.
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. ∞