SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Edgar Weippl, research director of SBA Research and full professor at the University of Vienna, recently visited the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo. He attended a master seminar led by Prof. Isao Echizen, who works on fake… Read More
End of February, our colleague Florian Holzbauer, researcher at SBA Research, gave a talk on "From Austria to Ukraine and back: Active measurements to detect Internet outages" at the AT:NOG event in Linz. Read More
In December, our colleague Gabriel Gegenhuber, researcher at SBA Research and University of Vienna, and Adrian Dabrowski (FH Campus Wien) held a talk together on WiFi Calling: Revealing Downgrade Attacks and Not-so-private private Keys at Black Hat Europe 2024. Read More
At the 35th International Conference on Principles of Diagnosis and Resilient Systems (DX’24), an event co-organized by TU Graz and Ben Gurion University, and sponsored by AIJ, Dimitris Simos gave a keynote titled “Combinatorial Methods beyond Testing: Optimizing Disaster Scenarios to Strengthen Disaster Preparedness and Resilience”. In his keynote, Dimitris… Read More
Professor Violet Syrotiuk from Arizona State University visited the MATRIS Research Group for two days of intensive research discussions and exchange from October 24-25, 2024. Prof. Syrotiuk is a distinguished researcher in mathematical system dynamics modeling, wireless networks, and algorithm development. ... Read More
In September, Gabriel Gegenhuber, researcher at SBA Research and PhD candidate at the University of Vienna, presented his work on Telecommunication Security in 4G/5G Networks at the Mobile Security Conference in Stralsund, Germany. His talk focused on methodologies for active… Read More
We're excited to announce that Michael Pucher, a researcher at SBA Research, delivered a compelling talk titled "Here Be Dragons: Ghidra Decompiler API Adventures" at this year's BalCCon. Read More
At the beginning of September, Sebastian Schrittwieser, key researcher at SBA Research, gave this year's keynote on Firmware Forensics: Semantic Functionality Identification Through Symbolic Execution and Program Simulation. Read More
On June 14, 2024, Matthias Eckhart attended the DCNA Young Scientists Networking Event and pitched his research on “Security-by-Design for Industrial Control Systems (ICSs).” The event was organized by the Disaster Competence Network Austria (DCNA) and hosted by the… Read More
On May 15, 2024, Antonis Troumpoukis from one of the prominent research centers of Greece, NCSR-Demokritos, gave a remote talk at the MATRIS seminar. His talk titled “Preference Representation using Higher-Order LP” addressed extensions of logic programming for preference representation. ... 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. ∞