SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Aaron Zauner, one of our researchers, has gotten a talk accepted at Blackhat USA 2016. Together with Sean Devlin, Hanno Böck and Philipp Jovanovic they identified a nonce re-use attack in the TLS GCM modes that can be used to inject additional content in the worst case. Overall, they identified… Read More
Dimitris Simos gives a talk on May, 11th about “Combinatorial Coverage Analysis of Subsets of the TLS Cipher Suite Registry” joint work with Kristoffer Kleine (SBA Research), Rick Kuhn (NIST), Raghu Kacker (NIST). HCSS 2016 takes place from May 10th to May 12th in Annapolis,… Read More
ERCIM News No. 106 (July 2016) DEADLINE FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Tuesday 17 May 2016 Please read the guidelines below before submitting an article The Special Theme and the Research and Innovation sections contain articles presenting a panorama of European research activities. The Special Theme focuses on a sector which has… Read More
Recently there were numerous papers on browser fingerprinting i.e. measuring the entropy of browser configurations to make them uniquely stand out among all others. Usually these methods run analysis on UserAgent strings, canvas fingerprinting, system fonts or the installed plugins. SBA Research has now setup its own fingerprinting website, which… Read More
Researchers from SBA Research are presenting these days at the Linuxwochen Wien 2016: Today at 3:30pm, Katharina Krombholz will present the findings of the user study on security and privacy in Bitcoin. On Saturday, 12am Martin Schmiedecker will talk about digital forensics on Linux and recently published tools that… Read More
Two papers have been accepted at the DFRWS USA ’16 conference on digital forensics, to be held from August 7th to 10th, 2016 in Seattle, WA: Time is on my side: Steganography in filesystem metadata PeekaTorrent: Leveraging P2P Hash Values for Digital Forensics You can find pre-prints of… Read More
The paper “Whom You Gonna Trust? A Longitudinal Study on TLS Notary Services” by Georg Merzdovnik, Klaus Falb, Martin Schmiedecker, Artemios Voyiatzis and Edgar Weippl has been accepted for publication in the 30th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2016)… Read More
Aljosha Judmayr’s Tutorial on Cryptocurrencies at WWW 2016 was very well received. WWW’s keynote speakers Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Mary Ellen Zurko attended and you can read Mary Ellen’s tweets (tweet (Tweet, more ) Other positive comments by Tactika and Surya Kallumadi. 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. ... ∞