SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
This year’s WeAreDevelopers Congress 2024, held in Berlin from July 17th to 19th with intriguing sessions covering the latest trends and advancements across the industry. Reinhard Kugler, lead of the MARC team, contributed to the congress with his standout presentations titled “A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Container… Read More
The International Workshop on Dynamics of Disasters: Hybrid Threats (DoD 2024) took place from July 30 to August 1, 2024, in Vienna, Austria, alongside the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security (ARES 2024). Hosted by the University of Vienna’s Faculty of Computer Science, this event brought together leading… Read More
The annual international IT security event, Troopers 2024, recently marked its 15th anniversary in the historic city of Heidelberg. This milestone event took place from the 24th until the 28th of June, bringing together security experts, researchers, and enthusiasts from around the globe to share cutting-edge developments in the field… Read More
We are thrilled to announce that, Dimitris Simos (Key Researcher, MATRIS lead, and Head of Strategic Research) has been awarded the prestigious 2024 Applications of Computer Algebra Early Researcher Award (ACA-ERA). Recognized as “one of the most dynamic and active researchers” by the award committee,… Read More
On May 15, 2024, Antonis Troumpoukis from one of the prominent research centers of Greece, NCSR-Demokritos, gave a remote talk at the MATRIS seminar. His talk titled “Preference Representation using Higher-Order LP” addressed extensions of logic programming for preference representation. ... Read More
We are pleased to share that Dhirendra Singh from CSIRO recently concluded a successful research visit at SBA Research. Invited by MATRIS Research Group of SBA, spent the end of May engaging in a productive collaboration with our researchers, especially the disaster research team, DEFSYS. Read More
At the beginning of April, the NERO COST Action members came together for the Working Group Assembly (April 3rd and 4th) and Management Committee meeting (April 5th) at the Impact Hub in Athens, Greece. DEFSYS Team lead Bernhard Garn participated as a Working Group and Management Committee… Read More
The project cooperation and partnership between Matris Applied Research Consulting (MARC) and Commend received a spotlight in the April issue of one of the most globally prominent magazines in cybersecurity: the Security System News. Last year, the lead of MARC, Reinhard Kugler, started… Read More
We are happy to share the outstanding news that Irene Hiess, part of the MATRIS Research Group, has successfully defended her master’s thesis on the fascinating topic “Exact Methods of Generation of Covering Arrays”. On March 13th, Irene Hiess showcased her expertise, dedication, and unwavering commitment… 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. ∞