SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Christian Kudera was selected as one of 15 NGI Explorers from a total of 130 applicants. NGI Explorers is the program to launch Europe’s best Internet talent into technology expeditions to the United States, catalyzing the impact of their disruptive… Read More
Yesterday evening, the sec4dev Conference & Bootcamp, hosted the special event Women in IT – we are no Aliens! – with 50+participants including SBA’s Stephanie Jakoubi, Johanna Ullrich and… Read More
45+ participants joined this year’s sec4dev Bootcamps! Mathias Tausig and Martin Grottenthaler (both SBA Research) gave an overview on the most widely used cloud services and their specific security threats and best practices during their Hands-on AWS Cloud Security Bootcamp,… Read More
Today, 170 participants attended the Software Security 101: Secure Coding Basics Session at sec4dev Conference & Bootcamp! Thomas Konrad (SBA Research) held the 3-hour training on the basics of secure coding giving a good overview… Read More
Made for the makers!The 2021 edition of the sec4dev conference (22-25 Feb´21) starts today with 300+ participants! It comes with numerous exciting topics and special sessions covering application security, security testing & automation, cloud & container, machine learning & AI security and much more. As an additional… Read More
ACCSA aimed to enable comprehensive and innovative training, exercise and evaluation concepts for all actors in state cyber crisis management and the like and thereby reduced response times and error rates in the event of a real cyber crisis. In the course of this project, SBA Research was working on threat scenarios used as… Read More
Edgar Weippl (SBA Research) co-organizes the Dagstuhl seminar SiPS – Managing Industrial Control Systems Security Risks for Cyber Insurance at the distinguished Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. This Dagstuhl seminar aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum to analyze and discuss open questions and… Read More
Since our entire working life runs on software, security is essential for almost every business operation; what is more, customer trust largely depends on whether security incidents happen and if so, how they are handled. To strongly root security in your company culture. Read the full article on the concept… Read More
Congratulations to Dimitris E. Simos (Key Researcher at SBA Research) for completing his Habilitation at Graz University of Technology. As of Jan.1st 2021, Dimitris is now Associate Professor (non-tenured track, venia docendi for Applied Computer Science) with… Read More
Congratulations to Stefanie Rinderle-Ma (Key Researcher at SBA Research) for joining the Technical University of Munich as of February 1st. She takes over the newly created Chair for Information Systems and Business Process Management. 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. ∞