SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
SBA Research is participating in the “Lange Nacht der Forschung”, the biggest research event in Austria, which takes place for the 6th time this year and is held all over Austria. Venue is the Austrian Computer Society (OCG), 5pm – 11pm. The participation is free of charge. SBA Research presents:… Read More
On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, the Minister of Technology, Doris Bures, invited Katharina Krombholz, IT security researcher at SBA Research, to the BMVIT for a photo shooting. Katharina Krombholz started her career in research with a funded FEMtech internship and was subsequently offered a full-time employment at… Read More
Since December 2013, the University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten is a new scientific partner of SBA Research. Alongside the Technical Universities of Vienna and Graz as well as the University of Vienna and the Vienna University of Economics and Business, the FH St. Pölten is not only our fifth… Read More
Adrian Dabrowski presents his award-winning research on the subject of security in locking systems (FAZ, Wired, heise, Futurezone, derStandard.at, weiterer Artikel derStandard.at, Golem, Golem-Update). Here is the video of his presentation. Haya Shulman takes part in a panel. SBA at 30C3 … Read More
During this year’s MoMM conference in Vienna, Prof. Leon S.L.Wang, Prof. i-Hsien Ting und Prof. Wen-Yang Lin (National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan) as well as Prof. Hung-Yu Kao (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan) visited SBA Research. During the site visit future cooperation in the fields of social networking, security and… Read More
On 28/11/2013, during “EPILOG Wintersemester 2013” at the Technical University of Vienna, Adrian Dabrowski was awarded the “Diploma Thesis Award sponsored by IEEE Austria Section” for his thesis “Security Analysis of Metropolitan Locking Systems Using the Example of the City of Vienna”. Read More
Edgar Weippl gave the opening keynote at this year’s SIN conference in Turkey on “Social Engineering Attacks on the Knowledge Worker and the Digital Native”. Together with Bart Preneel and Josef Pieprzyk, Edgar was on a panel discussion organized by Ali Aydin Selcuk. … 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. ∞