SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Our second newsletter was sent out today. Check it out here! We introduce you to ISIS, our (I)IoT, Systems and Industrial Security Group. In our video we highlight their research in areas such as side-channel attacks, automating security risk assessments or injecting security features in firmware post… Read More
Today is Safer Internet Day! To support our partners and customers, we have compiled our Home Office top tips for employees and for organizations for keeping their IT infrastructure secure and available. Stay secure during Home Office! Security Tips for Home Office SBA Live Academy on YouTube:… Read More
From Bad-Cop Culture to Sustainable Security Integration 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 More
SBA’s paper “On the Usability of Authenticity Checks for Hardware Security Tokens” by Katharina Pfeffer, Alexandra Mai, Adrian Dabrowski, Matthias Gusenbauer, Philipp Schindler, Edgar Weippl, Michael… Read More
Edgar Weippl (SBA Research) co-organizes a new Dagstuhl seminar Digital Twins for Cyber-Physical Systems Security at the distinguished Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. This Dagstuhl seminar aims to provide insights into the opportunities and limitations of the digital-twin concept for CPS… Read More
Christian Kudera (SBA Research) recently gave an interview on smart-lock systems to Kurier, in which he focuses on their functionality and security. Smart-lock systems use digital code as a key. They are locked and unlocked with the smartphone via app. Read… Read More
Congratulation to Kevin Mallinger (SBA Research) for having his journal paper published at the Anthropocene Review! As part of his interdisciplinary resilience research, Kevin is looking into social-ecological and technological systems and their links to anthropogenic activities. The global iron industry… Read More
Tomasz Miksa, SBA Research, presented the Research Data Alliance (RDA) recommendation on machine-actionable Data Management Plans (DMPs) at the latest the Science Europe Meeting. The recommendation was developed by… Read More
Wilfried Mayer & Gabriel Gegenhuber, both SBA Research, just started their new research project MobileAtlas – an international measurement platform for cellular networks that takes roaming measurements to the next level. Find out more about the project!
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. ∞