SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Alexander Schatten, senior researcher at SBA Research, was interviewed by journalist Daphne Hruby for the current podcast episode "How to become a scientist". ... Read More
Alexander Schatten, senior researcher at SBA Research, got interviewed by journalist Daphne Hruby for the podcast episode "Science under stress: When science is under time pressure", in October. ... Read More
Whether and how the cell phone listens in The phenomenon that you talk about something and then you get on your smartphone the appropriate advertising on the topic. “ZIB Magazin” took a look at whether and how cell phones listen in. Edgar Weippl, research director of SBA Research and full… Read More
Christian Kudera (SBA Research) recently gave an interview on his research project AutoHoney(I)IoT to DiePresse, in which he focuses on IT-security related challenges arising from “Internet of Things” (IoT) and “Industrial Internet of Things” (IIoT) networks. Read the full article &… 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. ∞