SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
The IT sector in Austria makes a substantial contribution to the Austrian economy. Due to a shortage of skilled, it is in danger of running out of steam. The fact that there are not enough female technicians is mainly due to the traditional role model in IT. In the interview… Read More
DECSYS, SBA’s Decentralized Systems Group, and their BRIDGE project SESC – Secure Execution of Smart Contracts have recently been featured as an FFG Success Story. DECSYS conducts research beyond hype topics like cryptocurrencies in order to achieve a better understanding of DLT requirements, identify… Read More
In this episode of “Mayrs Magazin” covering the Pegasus affair, Edgar Weippl explains why end user devices are the best attack points in mobile communication.
Starting today, the 26th conference on Applications of Computer Algebra (ACA’2021) takes place in a virtual setting until next Tuesday, July 27, 2021. Dimitris Simos, the leader of SBA Research’s MATRIS research group, serves as the program chair. The conference is organized… Read More
On July 6th, as part of the TU Wien course “Digitale Kompetenzen @ Parlament”, our Key Researchers Martina Lindorfer and Johanna Ullrich gave lectures for members and staff of the Austrian parliament. They covered the topics security, networks and cyber-physical systems. … Read More
Today, Klaus Kieseberg of the MATRIS research group presented the paper “On the applicability of combinatorial methods to disaster exercise generation”, a joint work between Bernhard Garn, Klaus Kieseberg, Dominik Schreiber and Dimitris E. Simos (all MATRIS… Read More
SBA and AIT are hosting the workshop “Is this you? Identity and Authenticity in the Digital Age” at the annual CODE conference of the Bundeswehr University Munich on the 21st July 2021 (09:30-12:30). The CODE Annual Conference is an excellent medium for presenting current scientific developments to a… Read More
Johanna Ullrich (SBA Research) and Otmar Lendl (CERT.at) were guests in “Punkt Eins” (Ö1) and answered questions from the audience. Cybercrime is increasing in quantity as well as quality, and everyone who is connected via the Internet may… Read More
Rudolf Mayer, head of our Machine Learning and Data Management Group (MLDM), is one of the guest editors of ERCIM News’ current issue on privacy-preserving computation. He and his team also contributed an article about WellFort, a… Read More
Within just one week, Michael Wagner attended IWOCA2021 and the 2021 World Congress on Global Optimization (WCGO 2021). Scientists, engineers, mathematicians and practitioners from a variety of related disciplines exchanged ideas and presented original research results in the theory and applications of… 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. ∞