SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
A Retrospect. One and a half decades of company history offer a lot of official milestones and not-so-official anecdotes to be picked from. Not an easy, but very fun task which we gladly fulfilled, presenting you in the following with some selected highlights and snippets from the past 15 years. Read More
Our colleagues Aljosha Judmayer, Andreas Kern, Philipp Schindler, Nicholas Stifter from our research group DECSYS – Decentralized Systems Group have provided a commentary for the upcoming “Ökosoziale Steuerreform” as there will be a change to the way Austria currently taxes Cryptocurrencies. The changes proposed by… Read More
The paper “Precisely and Persistently Identifying and Citing Arbitrary Subsets of Dynamic Data” was published in Harvard Data Science Review 3 (4). Lead author was our Key Researcher Andreas Rauber, one of the Co-Authors was our Senior Researcher Tomasz Miksa. Abstract Precisely identifying arbitrary subsets of data… Read More
Tomasz Miksa held a talk at the 18th RDA Plenary: Biomedical Research Data Management and Sharing: From Policies to Culture Change on November 10, 2021. Title: Fostering cultural change in data sharing on the example of machine actionable Data Management Plans Tomasz was one of the invited speakers whose… Read More
On November 23, 2021 our key researcher Johanna Ullrich was interviewed for the Radio Ö1 program Journal-Panorama. The topic was “Cybercrime” and the increasing importance of Cyber Security. Here is the link to the article about the program and the record which is online until November 30,… Read More
On November 11th, Sebastian Schrittwieser, senior researcher at SBA Research and University of Vienna, gave the keynote at the 7th International Conference on Software Security and Assurance on the topic of Software Protections. Title Software Protections – Theory, practice, and recent advances Abstract The area of Man-At-The-End (MATE) software… Read More
On November 18, 2021 Sebastian Schrittwieser, senior researcher at SBA and Uni Wien, gave a talk on the security of remote collaborations tools at the Herbst-ERFA of the Institut für Interne Revision Österreich. Together with Mag. Raoul Rumplmayr, auditor at ASFINAG, a risk assessment for collaboration tools such… Read More
On November 11th Tanja Sarcevic held an online talk for 70 participants about “WellFort: Auditable Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis Platform for SMEs”. The talk was part of the “DataSHIELD conference 2021”. Title “WellFort: Auditable Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis Platform for SMEs” Description Small and medium-sized organisations face challenges in acquiring,… Read More
The paper “When legacy code turns into senescent code: Assessing software aging and its implications” by Philip König, Kevin Mallinger and Alexander Schatten was accepted for the 5th European Technology Assessment and will be presented there in March 2022. It will also be published in Digital… Read More
Edgar Weippl is one of the four organizers of the Dagstuhl seminar 21451: “Managing Industrial Control Systems Security Risks for Cyber Insurance“ that will be held next week, November 7-12, 2021. The aim of this seminar is to develop the basis of a cyber cat… 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. ∞