SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
SBA Research was instrumental in the founding of the (ISC)² Austrian Chapter which will be used as an exchange and networking platform for Austrian IT security experts. (press release) (website (ISC)2 Austria Chapter) The foundation of the (ISC)2 Austria Chapters in the media:… Read More
The Team “We_0wn_Y0u”, consisting of members of iseclab and SBA Research, has won the second place in the iCTF which took place last Friday (see scoreboard). “Critial infrastructure” was the theme, and the scenario was completely different to previous years. In total, nine services had to be attacked and defended… Read More
In an advertisement of bmvit and FFG in the newspaper “Heute” Katharina’s internship is listed as a successful example for the promotion of women. Subsequent to the internship her employment continued on a permanent basis and she began working on her dissertation. Within the cooperation with the NII Katharina is… Read More
Sebastian Schrittwieser presented a talk on ethics in computer security research at the Chaos Communication Congress (29c3) in Hamburg. You can watch the recording on Youtube. Read More
Towards a Secure DNS (Dec 13, 2pm, SBA) Most caching DNS resolvers still rely for their security, against poisoning, on validating that the DNS responses contain some ‘unpredictable’ values, copied from the request. These values include the 16 bit identifier field, and other fields, randomised and validated by different… Read More
The last FemTech internships were very successful. The work of Katharina Krombholz led to a journal publication (‘Fake Identities in Social Media – A case study on the sustainability of the Facebook business model’) which was adopted by Springer Journal of Service Science Research.
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. ∞