SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
For decades, AI systems have been used to defend against cyberattacks. However, modern AI, particularly generative AI, not only strengthens defense mechanisms but also introduces new attack methods. A study conducted by SBA Research on behalf of RTR examined the latest advancements in cybersecurity from both offensive (Red Team) and… Read More
On January 20th, the OCG Annual Opening 2025 brought together industry leaders and experts to discuss the crucial topic of information and cybersecurity. The event provided valuable insights into protecting businesses from cyber threats and meeting the requirements of the EU Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2). OCG President… Read More
The 20th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES) will take place in Ghent, Belgium and is co-organized by University of Ghent and SBA Research. As always, ARES will feature a varied set of workshops and the EU Symposium – maintaining its strong tradition while also evolving… Read More
New paper “Conceptual service architecture to synchronise research data management services using machine-actionable data management plans” by Tomasz Miksa, senior researcher at SBA Research and senior scientist at TU Wien, was recently accepted for the ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems Journal. Read More
In December, our colleague Gabriel Gegenhuber, researcher at SBA Research and University of Vienna, and Adrian Dabrowski (FH Campus Wien) held a talk together on WiFi Calling: Revealing Downgrade Attacks and Not-so-private private Keys at Black Hat Europe 2024. Read More
On December 13th, SBA Research employees gathered at the Kardinal König Haus in Vienna for a one-day strategy seminar. The event began with an overview from our management team, reflecting on SBA Research’s journey and highlighting the center’s evolution over time. Presentations from all research groups,… Read More
We are proud to share that Shecurity has been honored with the Women in Tech Community Initiative of the Year award for 2024 in December! ... Read More
On December 9, 2024, the “𝗱𝗶𝗲 𝗜𝗧-𝗧𝗮𝗴“, inspiring women from the IT field dedicated their time to meet with thousands of enthusiastic high and middle school students across Austria. At SBA Research, we are incredibly proud to have supported this one-of-a-kind initiative from its early days,… Read More
At the 35th International Conference on Principles of Diagnosis and Resilient Systems (DX’24), an event co-organized by TU Graz and Ben Gurion University, and sponsored by AIJ, Dimitris Simos gave a keynote titled “Combinatorial Methods beyond Testing: Optimizing Disaster Scenarios to Strengthen Disaster Preparedness and Resilience”. In his keynote, Dimitris… 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. ∞