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 Hot Topics in the Science of Security Symposium (HotSoS 2024) was hosted by the NSA and took place virtually between April 2-4. Representing the CST team of MATRIS Research Group, Dominik Schreiber presented a poster titled “A Combinatorial Perspective towards Security Testing of Anonymity Networks”. Read More
On April 8, 2024, the MATRIS Research Group and the Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) research program members of IIASA convened for the ECE Seminar at the headquarters of IIASA at Schloss Laxenburg, while approximately 25 members from both parties participated remotely. Read More
🔍 Exploring Global Solutions:The PH-US-UNCTAD Harnessing STI for DRR Workshop convened in Manila, Philippines from February 29 to March 1, 2024. With delegates from 44 UNCSTD member states, Dr. Dimitris Simos,... Read More
In early March, the MATRIS Applied Research Consulting Team organized the second meetup of the Automotive Security Meetup series for the automotive community at SBA Research. The meeting format of the Automotive Security Research Group (ASRG Vienna) aims to foster discussion about ideas, methods,… Read More
On Oct 17, 2023, Bernhard Garn joined as MC member of Austria the meeting MC1 of the COST Action NERO (CA22164 – european Network on Extreme fiRe behaviOr). Copyright: MATRIS This meeting marks the start of this COST Action, which focuses… Read More
On Monday, October 9, 2023, Bernhard successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled ‘Design Theory Methods and their Applications to the Science of Security’ in his defensio. The committee was chaired by Martina Lindorfer (TU Wien) and in addition consisted of Edgar Weippl (University of Vienna), Rachel… Read More
Bernhard Garn from the DEFSYS team has joined the management committee of two COST Actions, where he will represent MATRIS/SBA and Austria: On the 17 of October the CA22164 – european Network on Extreme fiRe behaviOr (NERO) Action CA22164 – COST started and on the 26th of September the CA22168… Read More
On the 13th of July, Marlene Koelbing from the DEFSYS team of MATRIS attended the 4th International Conference on Mathematical Research and Blockchain Economy (MARBLE) for a talk about a paper on a mathematical approach to the use of integer partitions for… Read More
Professor Lucia Moura from the University of Ottawa, Canada, visited the MATRIS Research Group for two days focusing on research discussion and mutual exchange, from the 29th-30th of June 2023. Prof. Moura is a distinguished researcher in the… 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. ∞