SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Stephanie Jakoubi, SBA’s Head of Strategic Partner Management, has collected 200 inspiring stories from women in IT. We are also proud to welcome our 56th FEMtech intern and are piloting a new initiative for female STEM students. Read more here (in German). Read More
In this episode of the podcast Zukunft Denken, Alexander Schatten talks about deep fakes. He discusses the historical background of technical innovations, how essential information was conveyed before the 20th century and where we are heading today. He is asking the question what Deep… Read More
The 15th Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference (LION15), hosted by SBA Research, is currently taking place as all-digital conference. Panos Pardalos (General Chair), Dimitris E. Simos (TPC Chair) and Ilias Kotsireas (Local Organizing Chair) are welcoming contributors from 29 countries and are happy… Read More
In an interview with Mayrs Magazin – the new ORF science magazine – Edgar Weippl talks about the possibility of intercepting encrypted communications, using the example of the current investigative success with regard to the messenger app Anom. The broadcast is available for 6 days… Read More
Listen to the latest Cybersecurity Magazine Podcast with Edgar Weippl (SBA Research & University of Vienna) talking about his work in security and production systems, and the upcoming ARES Conference 2021 (August… Read More
We are proud to announce the confirmed keynote speakers for our annual ARES & CD-MAKE conferences. ARES 2021 Keynote Speakers Sonia Chiasson, Canada Research Chair in User Centric Cybersecurity, Carleton University, Canada Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Head of Laboratory for Data Security (LDS), EPFL – Station 14,… Read More
In this episode of Nikolaus Forgó’s podcast, Edgar Weippl (SBA Research & University of Vienna) talks about information security requirements in the Covid-19 crisis, home office, and the issues of centralized health data processing. Watch the full video on… Read More
In the pioneering days of information technology, women played an essential role – well-known examples are Ada Lovelace, who developed an algorithm and is considered the first female programmer ever, or Dorothy Vaughan, whose work contributed significantly to… Read More
Kick-start your Secure Software Development Lifecycle! Did you ever wonder what it takes to ensure holistic and manageable software security? Would you like to be compliant to laws and regulations that demand action in that area, maybe via your customers? Or do you simply want to drive software quality… Read More
From intern to full-time researcher Tanja Šarčević (researcher at SBA Research) is featured in the latest edition of FFG’s FEMtech Success Stories. Tanja started her research career as a FEMtech intern, working on a project on data anonymisation and machine learning methods. 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. ∞