SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
After a long pause with just-online-events it was a pleasure to once again organize the (ISC)2 / ISACA Conference on October 5, 2021 as a live event. Hosted in TU Wien´s wonderful TUtheSky Conference Room with a great view over Vienna we had 100 participants, 10 very interesting talks, a… Read More
At the //heise devSec conference on October 6-7, 2021 Mathias Tausig gave an online-workshop about “Hands-On Threat Modeling” for 18 participants and a talk (online) to 60 participants concerning the topic: “Reifegradbewertung für TechnikerInnen oder wie ich lernte OWASP SAMM zu lieben”. heise devSec is a conference with… Read More
On October 10th, Kevin Mallinger presented his research on novel ways to assess the impact of novel technologies in complex environments during the DiLaAg Days. Read More
This year’s PriSec conference took place from October 05.-06. in Rust am Neusiedlersee. Gerald Sendera held a talk about interface documentation (“Schnittstellendokumentation? TLDR *lol*”) to 40 participants. PriSec combines the topics of information security and data protection in the company: In the future, this growing area of… Read More
Rudolf Mayer and SBA Research hosted the 6th FeatureCloud Steering Committee Meeting on 29 September – 01 October 2021. Interesting science talks and an internal Hackathon were part of the meeting with about 25 participants. We are already looking forward to the next meeting!
The “Plattform Industrie 4.0” made a video about “Security by Design in the Industry”. In this video Edgar Weippl talks about the rising importance of information security in the industry.
Kevin Mallinger held the official Beyond Coding Kick-Off event on the 1st of October with 3 scientific partners and 20 company partners attending. This marks the start of a series of online teaching events organized by SBA Research and its teaching partners (FH St. Pölten, JKU, ÖBB, CMS Legal)… Read More
Markus Hittmeir, Senior Researcher at SBA Research, is collaborating with Igor Semaev from the Department of Informatics at the University of Bergen on mathematical problems related to cryptography. Read More
Tomasz Miksa was appointed by the EOSC Association as a member of the task force on “Technical Interoperability of Data and Services”. Thus, he will have a chance to make a contribution to shaping and realization of the European Open Science Cloud… Read More
SBA Research supports Vienna’s startup community with our expertise in information security.We offer professional experience in how to engage research opportunities and provide tailored consulting services to further increase the security standards in young companies. One of our main activities is to strengthen security awareness through workshops and talks. 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. ∞