SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
On the 20th of September Anja Klauzer had the pleasure to have a talk about open-source intelligence and energy infrastructure at the International Digital Security Forum Vienna 2023. The IDSF dedicated the week between the 19th and 21st of September to bring together international and national leadership and… Read More
After the resounding success of last year’s forum, which attracted over 250 international participants and featured more than 100 speakers from 41 different countries, today the 3rd International Digital Security Forum (IDSF), hosted by the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, takes place… Read More
On July 6, the 3rd Conference of the Research Network Young Digital Law took place, which was co-organized by the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law, the Research Platform Governance of Digital Practices, and the Research Group Security and Privacy at the University of Vienna. Read More
On the 5th of July, Dimitris Simos gave a plenary talk on “Disaster scenarios with discrete sequences: Using combinatorics for enhanced disaster preparedness” at the 6th International Conference on Dynamics of Disasters (DoD 2023). Klaus Kieseberg and… Read More
On June 26, the ERIS Team had the opportunity of attending the TMA Conference. Johanna Ullrich served as the TPC chair, ensuring a well-organized and fruitful event. During the conference, Markus Maier, Gabriel… Read More
On the 23rd of June the Monerokon took place again and our colleague Simin Ghesmati had the pleasure to give a talk there. The Monero Konferenco is an annual gathering that attracts privacy advocates, scientists, and philosophers from around the world. This event is purposefully designed to disseminate… Read More
On the 22nd of June, the VIP Security Round Table by Tems Security was held as an internal event for employees as well as partners and concerned itself with current as well as future topics in security. Caroline Lawitschka was the second of two talks, the first one… Read More
On June 6th, 2023, Anja Klauzer and Veronika Nowak participated in the TA|23, the annual conference of the Institute of Technology Assessment at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. They presented Anja’s work “Power Grid… Read More
On the 13th of April, SBA Research hosted a seminar for the Vienna DevOps & Security Meetup group with a topical focus on Cloud Native technologies, DevOps, and Security. Reinhard Kugler, a security expert of MATRIS, contributed to this Meetup with an… Read More
On Febuary the 21st, Tomasz Miksa and his master student at TU Wien Moritz Staudinger got into the meeting by invitation from German colleagues via RDA WGs. Moritz talked about the project with International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN) network. In short, he… 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. ∞