SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
SBA-K1, our main strategic research endeavor, has been granted continued funding for the period 2017-2025 under the FFG COMET (Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies) K1-Centres program line. The first four years of our current COMET period (2017 – 2021) have been tremendously successful. We were able to… Read More
Despite being held online-only, this year’s General Assembly of the H2020 project Feature Cloud was a great success and helped to move the project forward, discussing open issues and setting next goals. SBA Research chaired two sessions on work packages we are leading: WP:… Read More
Watch Stefan Jakoubi and Thomas Konrad (both SBA Research) on “I am a hacker” – expert tips for parents to encourage their children’s digital curiosity. The story is featured in the E-MINT app, recently released by the… Read More
SBA’s Aljosha Judmayer presented two papers at this years 5th Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts (held in association with Financial Cryptography 2021). The videos are now available on the WTSC workshop YouTube Channel. Talk… Read More
Meet three of SBA Research’s inspiring female colleagues! Although still a minority, women have tenaciously worked their way back to the center of ICT. SBA Research is proud to be the professional home to distinguished female experts and promising young talent alike, while also partaking in a wider network of women… Read More
Markus Klemen (founder and managing director of SBA Research) held an impulse talk on Digital Sovereignty at a virtual workshop organized by the Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development. The Workshop focused on two aspects of the topic of… Read More
Philipp Schindler (SBA Research) presented SBA’s paper at NDSS 2021! Missed it? The video is now available on the NDSS YouTube channel. Also available online: the full paper, the… Read More
The third edition of the sec4dev conference & bootcamp was a big success! 300 attendees from 16 countries grabbed the opportunity to boost their security skills. The packed 4 day program included 3 bootcamps, 2 special sessions free… Read More
Modern container orchestrators like Kubernetes, Docker or LXC work like magic. We run a simple command or submit a declaration file and the system pops up the requested application – but what is happening behind the curtains? What Linux features are leveraged to create something we call a container? In… Read More
At today’s sec4dev Conference & Bootcamp, Rudolf Mayer and Tanja Šarčević (both SBA Research) held a great talk on Adversarial Machine Learning, giving an overview on various attacks (backdoors, evasion, inference/inversion), and… 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. ∞