SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
This year’s (ISC)² ISACA Conference 2023 on the 20th of April was themed: “…imagine the problem of IT is solved…. “Real Life” approaches to solving the issue of resource and skills shortages” We were not able to solve… Read More
On Sunday, April 16, 2023, the 12th International Workshop on Combinatorial Testing (IWCT 2023) was held co-located with the 16th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) 2023 in Dublin, Ireland. Angelo Gargantini (University… Read More
Senior Researcher Sebastian Schrittwieser was interviewed for the P.M. Wissen magazine on ServusTV. Sebastian shared his knowledge about the use of AI in Social Engineering attacks. He showed how a human voice can be easily cloned and then used for a CEO scam, for example. Furthermore, he explained what… Read More
On March 3rd, 2023 roughly 100 employees of SBA Research gathered at the Kardinal König Haus, Vienna, for a one-day roadmap seminar. Our management gave a glimpse into SBA Research´s past to illustrate how the research center has developed so far. Presentations of all research groups and the professional services… Read More
The third strategic workshop between MATRIS and the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) took place virtually on the 11th, 13th, and 14th of October. MATRIS and NIST have been part of a successful and scientifically fruitful partnership for many years and officially cooperating… Read More
On September 15, 2022, SBA Research hosted the first round table for women-in-IT networks organized by the city of Vienna and DigitalCity.Wien. An impressive number of 30 networks, represented by 42 women, presented themselves, their mission, goals, and activities. Stephanie Jakoubi (SBA Research and… Read More
sec4dev 2022 is over and wow wow wow - we are more than happy after having 4 days of great bootcamps, interesting talks and more than 170 participants, making the sec4dev Conference & Bootcamp a fantastic event!! From September 6-9, 2022 the TU Wien was turned into THE place to be for developers and everybody interested in security. Read More
From September 13-16, 2022, the European Cyber Security Challenge took place in Vienna, Austria. The ECSC is the culmination of cyber security challenges in European countries, with all participating countries striving to send the best security talents to the ECSC finals. With over 30… Read More
As part of the ICT Security Conference (September 14-15, 2022), a group of nine dedicated young researchers presented their scientific work in front of 1800 participants on the main stage of the Conference. A big thanks to the OCG IT Security Working… 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. ∞