SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Artemios Voyiatzis has been nominated as a MC Member to the COST Action RECODIS and Stefan Brunthaler has been nominated as a MC Member to the COST Action EUTYPES. Peter Kieseberg has been nominated as MC Substitute to both Actions. COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology)
SBA Research welcomes and supports the initiative of the European Commission and the recommendations given in „The European Charter for Researchers“ and „The Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers“. Although SBA Research already has many of these recommendations in place, we will promote further implementations to support the work of… Read More
The ERCIM News No. 104 has just been published at http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en104/ SBA Research contributed with two articles: Women in IT Security Research: The Case of SBA Research by Veronika Nowak Trust for the Doctor in the Loop… Read More
Prof. Dr. Joachim Posegga, Chair of IT Security, University of Passau, Germany gives a guest talk about “Alice in the Sky – On Security of Air Traffic Control Communication”. Abstract Thursday, 14.01.2016, 15.00-16.45 This event is hosted by the Vienna ACM SIGSAC Chapter. Read More
Numerous members of SBA Research are currently at the Chaos Communication Congress (32c3) in Hamburg. If you happen to be there and spot one of us, approach us – we love to chat! Here are some pictures from derstandard.at and some more (random) pictures on flickr. This… Read More
Aaron Zauner will present our findings on the usage of TLS in the email ecosystem and counter-measures for secure mail transport at Real World Crypto 2016 in January. You can find the detailed results here, while the program of RWC’16 is already available online.
Yet another paper was accepted at the International Conference of Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC’16): “CuriousDroid: Automated User Interface Interaction for Android Application Analysis Sandboxes” by Patrick Carter, Collin Mulliner, Martina Lindorfer, William Robertson, and Engin Kirda. CuriousDroid was developed in collaboration with Northeastern University in Boston and provides… Read More
Katharina Krombholz, Aljosha Judmayer, Matthias Gusenbauer and Edgar Weippl got their paper “The Other Side of the Coin: User Experiences with Bitcoin Security and Privacy” accepted at the International Conference of Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC’16) which will be held in February 2016 in Christ… Read More
Last Friday, students and faculty of SBA Research and the Vienna University of Technology participated as members of the team We_0wn_Y0u in the 2015 edition of the international capture-the-flag contest iCTF. Within 8 hours we managed to exploit 15 services, and finished 8th place with a very thrilling last-minute… Read More
We are proud to announce that we joined the Linux Foundation Europe, further strengthening our role within the international open-source community. With this step, we are reinforcing our commitment to advancing security and resilience in digital infrastructures. ... ∞
David Schmidt, PhD student at CD-Lab AsTra, Sebastian Schrittwieser, key researcher at SBA Research and head of the CD-Lab, and Edgar Weippl, scientific director at SBA Research and full professor for security & privacy at the University of Vienna, received the Distinguished Paper Award at ACM CCS 2025 (A*-rated) for their work Leaky Apps: Large-scale Analysis of Secrets Distributed in Android and iOS Apps. ... ∞