SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Gabriel Gegenhuber’s new paper “Why E.T. Can’t Phone Home: A Global View on IP-based Geoblocking at VoWiFi” was recently accepted to the MobiSys conference happening in Tokyo in June 2024. The paper exposes existing blocking practices within worldwide mobile network operators that prevent customers from using Wi-Fi calling during roaming. Read More
Tomasz Miksa, senior researcher at SBA Research, gave an interesting talk on “Turning Machine-actionable DMPs into FAIR Digital Objects” at the International FAIR Digital Objects Implementation Summit in Berlin. Transition to FDOs requires significant changes in the design of existing tools and… 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
As every year, the Faculty and Student Representation Computer Science and Chemistry (University of Vienna) would like to join forces to do good together and invites cordially to this year’s charity concert. SBA Research joins in too and all donations from the benefit concert will go to the Ukrainehilfe of… Read More
During the kick-off meeting in Innsbruck in the end of January, the strategic research program was refined, and a detailed short-term implementation plan created. SBA Research participated in the meeting with Anastasia Pustozerova, Andrea Siposova, Daniela Martinez, and Rudolf Mayer. In a significant stride towards… Read More
Rudolf Mayer joins the Scientific Advisory Board of the Horizon Europe project Microb-AI-ome, and will advice the project consortium in data privacy and security in the context of federated databases and machine learning. About the project Microb-AI-ome aims to advance early identification of colorectal cancer… Read More
We congratulate Aljosha Judmayer to successfully defending his PhD thesis “Pay to Win – Algorithmic Incentive Manipulation Attacks on Permissionless Cryptocurrencies” and thank Rainer Böhme and Bryan Ford for their service as examiners. The digital exchange of units of financial value, commonly referred to as money,… Read More
Alexander Schatten, senior researcher at SBA Research, published two cover articles regarding the ESG software market in heise iX. The ESG reporting obligations are coming In 2024 and 2025, many SMEs will be subject to new non-financial reporting obligations on the environmental and human… Read More
CloudLinux CageFS 7.0.8-2 or below insufficiently restricts file paths supplied to the sendmail proxy command. This allows local users to read and write arbitrary files of certain file formats outside the CageFS environment. We recommend to update CloudLinux CageFS to version 7.1.1-1 or later. For further details, see the full security advisory. Read More