SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Many students attended our presentation on our teaching focus Security at TU Wien. We offer classes ranging from introductory classes for Bachelor students to technically demanding classes at Master level and research-focused lectures for our PhD students. Read More
Today our Researcher Peter Kieseberg joins the APWG.EU eCrime CyberSecurity Symposium 2016 in Bratislava in the panel discussion on the eCrime Data Exchange. Furthermore, we are proud to be part of the APWG.EU Scientific Committee that took place today.
Edgar Weippl gave a presentation on how to engage students in information security research and explained some of the current research challenges. Read More
Casting one’s ballot is not just a right but a duty; one might argue that privacy protection requires a similar approach. Edgar Weippl in an interview with Factor. Read More
The ERCIM News No. 107 has just been published at with a special theme “Machine Learning” (The issue is available in PDF here). SBA Research contributed the article “Privacy Aware Machine Learning and the Right to be Forgotten” by Bernd Malle, Peter Kieseberg, Sebastian Schrittwieser, and Andreas… Read More
Edgar Weippl explained why applied security research is important to solve today’s and future problems; Jan Camenisch (IBM Research) showed some of his fundamental work that later lead to his Advanced ERC Grant and Dirk Helbing (ETH Zurich) picked up on the topic of New Enlightenment and emphasized… Read More
Today is the first day of the 21th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2016). Two of our researchers, Stefan Brunthaler and Johanna Ullrich, are attending; Johanna is presenting her paper on attacks exploiting Xen rate limits tomorrow. ESORICS 2016… Read More
Last Friday our researcher Peter Kieseberg presented our work in the area of “Testing Algorithms in Sensitive Data Driven Research” and related security issues on the 14th installment of the “Anwenderkonferenz Softwarequalität, Test und Innovation” (ASQT 2016) at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (University Klagenfurt). Read More
SBA Research was delighted to welcome FFG Managing Director Karin Tausz and Head of Division Structural Programmes Silvia Laimgruber to the SBA-K1 NGC COMET Center in Vienna. ... ∞
Our colleague Nicholas Stifter, researcher and security analyst at SBA Research, presented his conference paper titled Reuse of Public Keys Across UTXO and Account-Based Cryptocurrencies at the Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2026 in St. Kitts, USA. ... ∞
Tanja Sarcevic, Daryna Olyinyk, and Yelyzaveta Klysa, all MLDM research group members, and Sabina Khazari participated in the European Cybersecurity & AI Hackathon Championship organized by CISPA, one of Europe’s leading research centers in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. Congratulations to them, they won 2nd place and qualified themselves to the grand finale that will be held in St. Ingbert, Germany, in June 2026. ... ∞