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Manuel Leithner: Book Review “Coding for Penetration Testers by Jason Andress and Ryan Linn”

February 17, 2012

” (Without meaning to advocate over-reliance on it, penetration tests usually require a certain suite of tools. While standard utilities such as nmap, dirbuster and sqlmap tend to meet the needs of testers in most situations, some tricky assessments call for custom development or at least a skilled combination of… Read More

1st Young Researcher’s Day – 01.03.2012

February 15, 2012

Ingrid Schaumüller-Bichl and Edgar Weippl cordially invite to the 1st Young Researcher’s Day which will take place during the OCG working group „IT security“ on 01/03/2012. The basic idea behind this event is the desire that every Austrian institution that offers a security course or teaching focus, provides their best… Read More

ARES 2011 Special Issue: Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks,…

February 12, 2012

Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous computing, and Dependable Applications. ARES 2011 Special Issue Volume 2, Number 4 (December, 2011), Advances in Applied Security. http://jowua.yolasite.com/vol2no4.php… Read More

Media coverage of our NDSS paper

February 7, 2012

futurezone, 20min.ch & pctipp.ch have a story about our work.

Gravierende Schwachstellen in Kurznachrichtendiensten für Smartphones gefunden

February 6, 2012

Smartphone-Applikationen zum Versenden von kostenlosen Kurznachrichten erfreuen sich auch in Österreich zunehmender Beliebtheit, allen voran WhatsApp, das auf bereits mehr als 180 000 Smartphones in Österreich installiert ist. Die einfache Konfiguration – das Anlegen eines Benutzerkontos ist nicht erforderlich – trägt einerseits zu dieser rasanten Verbreitung bei, andererseits sorgt dieses… Read More

Paper “Guess Who’s Texting You? Evaluating the Security of Smartphone Messaging Applications”

February 6, 2012

We will present a paper on smartphone message application security at NDSS 2012. You can find a preprint of the paper here: Guess Who’s Texting You? Evaluating the Security of Smartphone Messaging Applications. From the abstract: In recent months a new generation of mobile messaging and VoIP applications… Read More

Web Salon 2012

February 1, 2012

Heute (1. Februar) um 19 Uhr bietet Manuel Leithner im Rahmen des Web Salon 2012, veranstaltet von saferinternet.at, in Form eines Webinars praktische Tips und Informationen zum Thema Sicherheit auch für Computerunvertraute an. Die Teilnahme ist frei, Anmeldung jedoch erforderlich.

Guest talk: John Tait on Semantic Search: New Developments

January 31, 2012

Semantic Search: New Developments John Tait, Jan 31, 14:30 SBA Research The term Semantic Search is becoming fashionable, but there are a number of problems with the term. 1) There are at least two forms of semantic search. One is based more-or-less hand programmed knowledge sources, like domain ontologies or… Read More

IEEE Spectrum: A Cloud you can trust

January 25, 2012

“In a paper they presented at the Usenix Security Symposium in August, Martin Mulazzani and his colleagues at SBA Research [PDF], in Vienna, described several ways in which deduplication could be used to access files uploaded to Dropbox. ” (quoted verbatim from Christian Cachin et al., A Cloud you… Read More

BSidesVienna Public Transport Talk

January 23, 2012

At BSidesVienna 2012, Manuel Leithner gave a talk on public transport titled “Hackers on a train – Toying with transportation”, detailing equipment and possible flaws in the on-board network infrastructure and ticketing system of WESTbahn.

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