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SBA Research is a research center for Information Security
funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.

Recent News:

Bernhard Garn and Dimitris Simos @ ACA 2015

At the Applications of Computer Algebra Conference (ACA 2015), Bernhard Garn and Dimitris Simos give a talk about “Algebraic Modelling of Covering Arrays”. They present a novel approach to model Covering Arrays, which are at the center of their research field Combinatorial Testing. This theoretical result can be directly used… Read More

Katharina Krombholz @ SOUPS 2015

Katharina Krombholz is currently attending SOUPS 2015 (Symposium on usable privacy and security) in Ottawa, Canada. Today, she presented a position paper at the Workshop on Inclusive Privacy and Security and participated in a panel discussion on methods.

Markus Klemen über seine Ziele in der OCG

“Die OCG hat über die Arbeit des Österreichischen Integrationsfonds den ECDL Best Practice Award in der Kategorie “ECDL in Society” gewonnen. Das zeigt, dass Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen wie ECDL und ECDL Advanced für Personen mit Migrationshintergrund von grundlegender Bedeutung sind. Sich hier als OCG in Bezug auf IT aktiv, konstruktiv und unterstützend… Read More

RC4 in HTTPS

RC4 is no longer considered secure, and should not be used anymore according to RFC7465 (RFC draft). New attacks can be used to decipher the communication content within days, like session cookies. The past weeks we have been busy scanning more than 2 million HTTPS servers… Read More

Mission für mehr IT-Security

Katharina Krombholz im Standard über ihre Forschung zur Verbesserung der Benutzerfreundlichkeitvon Technologien. Den Artikel gibt es hier zu lesen. Read More

Prize Competition: “Start Secure 2015”

SBA Research, the Federal Ministry of the Interior, futurezone.at and the Kuratorium Sicheres Österreich are organising a competition for IT security Start-ups and ideas for cybersecurity solutions. The deadline for submissions (in German or English) is September 30, 2015. Competition entries are to be send to redaktion@futurezone.at. A jury… Read More

Details on Internet-wide Scans from SBA

To clarify what we are scanning on the Internet, here are some details on the project and which tools we use. Most importantly: if you want your IP to be excluded from future scans, please send an email to abuse@sba-research.org. For quite some time now we scan Internet-wide for well-known… Read More

Katharina Krombholz awarded as Fem Tech Expert

Katharina Krombholz, researcher at SBA Research, has been awarded as Fem Tech Expert of the month July by the Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology. The goal of this initiative is to promote successful female scientists in technical fields. See the interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgc9rN91TGM&feature=youtu.be… Read More

Dimitris Simos @ INRIA

Dimitris Simos is visiting INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt during 6 – 11 July. He is hosted by the project team SECRET.