SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
As we set value on social events at SBA, we try to even meet in pandemic times. And what would fit better as doing some hiking in the nature? Today we all met again for a SBA Hiking Day and took the Vienna hiking trail number 5 around the Bisamberg… Read More
We are happy to announce that our paper „Better Keep Cash in Your Boots – Hardware Wallets Are the New Single Point of Failure” from Adrian Dabrowski (University of California, Irvine), Katharina Pfeffer (SBA Research), Markus Reichel (Vienna University of Technology), Alexandra Mai (SBA… Read More
The 6th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE EuroS&P 2021), organized by SBA Research, TU Wien and the University of Vienna was held from September 6 – 10, 2021 as all-digital conference. We welcomed more than 280 participants from 42 countries. The first two days were dedicated to… Read More
On October 1st, 2021 SBA Research will be at the IT-SECX, the annual conference of UAS St. Pölten. You will have the opportunity to chat with us at the SBA booth and attend the expert talks of Philipp Reisinger and Martin Grottenthaler; they will give… Read More
Authors from SBA Research & TU Wien (Anastasia Pustozerova, Andreas Rauber, Rudolf Mayer) published the paper “Training Effective Neural Networks on Structured Data with Federated Learning” at the AINA-2021 conference. Visit the FeatureCloud project and… Read More
futurezone.at interviewed Edgar Weippl, covering a wide array of topics from the advancement of young talents to Blockchain to critical infrastructures. In the light of the increasing digitalization, two issues are more important than ever: protecting privacy and securing the integrity of information. The systems we build today are… Read More
The second virtual ARES & CD-MAKE conference was held from August 17 to August 20, 2021. We were proud to welcome over 340 participants from 39+ countries to this second all-digital ARES & CD-MAKE conference! The four conference days were filled with internationally renowned keynote speakers,… Read More
The Cyber Security Quiz, a learning and gaming app for learning security and privacy, is nominated in the category “Education and human resources development” of this year eAward. We are all online almost every day. But few know the footprint we leave on the internet and the dangers… Read More
As one of four experts, Edgar Weippl was interviewed for the most recent issue of South Tyrol’s “Zett” am Sonntag. In his statement, he sheds light on cyber espionage on state level and illustrates some worrying consequences of the – due to the pandemic – hastened digitalization of businesses. Furthermore,… Read More
SBA Research is happy to announce that the KIRAS project “G-Star: Gesamtstaatliche Erfassung der Resilienz im Kontext komplexer Krisenszenarien“ was granted. Kevin Mallinger and Johanna Ullrich (SBA Research) will be working on the project in cooperation with the BKA (Federal Chancellery Republic Austria), BMI… 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. ∞