SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
From September 21-23, 2022 the Privacy in Statistical Databases 2022 (PSD 2022) conference took place in Paris. Tanja Šarčević, researcher at SBA Research, held a talk about Anonymisation and Fingerprinting of Microdata. Title of the Talk Anonymisation and Fingerprinting of Microdata: A Genetic Algorithm for Finding the Optimal Set… 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. ∞