SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
We are proud to announce, that our paper “IMSI-Catch Me If You Can: IMSI-Catcher-Catchers” has been accepted to the 2014 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC). In this paper, we identify and describe multiple methods for detecting artifacts in the mobile network produced by IMSI Catchers. IMSI Catchers are used… Read More
Dr. Artemios G. Voyiatzis, Associate Researcher, Industrial Systems Institute, “Athena” Research and Innovation Center in ICT, Greece gives a talk about “Security challenges in industrial systems”. Abstract Tuesday, June 26, 2014, 10.00 – 11.30 This event is hosted by the Vienna ACM SIGSAC Chapter. Read More
Adrian Dabrowski, Martina Lindorfer and Johanna Ullrich visited the flagship conference Usenix Security Symposium, held from 20-22 August in San Diego, California. As usual, the conference hosted a variety of interesting talks covering a vast amont of different aspects in computer security. Johanna presented her paper on IPv6 Security at… Read More
A delegation of professors and researchers from the Changwon National University in South Korea visited SBA Research to learn about the successful COMET model where industry and researchers collaborate tightly in long-term research projects.
Edgar Weippl gave the opening lecture of the TechCamp Summer School that is organized in cooperation with the Vienna University of Technology and our partner company LBS, funded by the European Union. The TechCamp takes place from 19 – 28 August, 2014 at the Vienna University of Technology. 30 students… Read More
derStandard.at berichtet “Dafür soll ein Nachfolgeprojekt namens “Diango” sogar in der Lage sein, Bilder auszuwerten. Genau wie “Diana” wird es von Verteidigungs- und Innenministerium gefördert und unter Leitung der SBA-Research GmbH entwickelt.”… Read More
Engin Kirda et al. analyzed nearly 1,500 suspicious e-mail messages targeting a human-rights NGO. “The team found that, while the malware managed to reliably evade detection by many antivirus programs, the attacks were relatively unsophisticated, using known vulnerabilities that had already been patched.” Read the whole article here. The paper will be presented… Read More
Andreas Tomek im Gespräch mit Futurezone über den kürzlich bekannt gewordenen Diebstahl von 1,2 Millionen Zugangsdatensätzen: “Die Wiederverwendung von Passwörtern ist sehr gefährlich”, meint Andreas Tomek. “Wenn das bei Bezahlwebseiten oder Online-Geldbörsen passiert, hat man ein Problem.” Lesen Sie den ganzen Artikel hier.
Malware in Silizium wird ein zunehmend wichtigeres Thema. Da die Aufrechterhaltung eines Fabs sehr teuer ist, verlagern immer mehr Unternehmen Ihre Chip Produktion zu Auftragsfertigern ins Ausland. Doch wer garantiert, dass nicht absichtliche Backdoors oder Datenlecks in die Chips eingeschleust werden? Das Projekt “Malware in Silicon II”* präsentiert seine Ergebnisse… Read More