SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Today the 13th international Safer Internet Day took place. The focus of this day lies on “a better Internet for children and teenagers”. Security Experts from SBA Research together with the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) arranged one day for students from elementary school to high school and… Read More
The Austrian newspaper “Der Standard” released an interesting article about the monetary system Bitcoin and how it is often used in connection with crimes such as ransomware and money laundering. The German-Austrian project BITCRIME, with SBA Research as project partner, explores strategies against this kind of abuse. The project focuses on researching… Read More
Engin Kirda, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Northeastern University in Boston, and the director of the Northeastern Information Assurance Institute, gives a talk about “Hidden GEMs: Automated Discovery of Access Control Vulnerabilities in Graphical User Interfaces”. Abstract Tuesday, 02.025.2016, 11.00-12.00 This event… Read More
Sebastian Schrittwieser, Stefan Katzenbeisser, Johannes Kinder, Georg Merzdovnik and Edgar Weippl. Protecting software through obfuscation: Can it keep pace with progress in code analysis? ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), accepted for publication, 2016.
Rudolf Mayer and Andreas Rauber are currently participating in the prestigious Dagstuhl Seminar series, together with around 35 research fellows from Europe, Australia, Japan, Brazil and the USA. The seminar deals with the challenges in making experimental research in e-Science reproducible. Many issues concern the lack of proper documentation of… Read More
The Call for Papers for CCS 2016 is out. Submission Deadline: May 23, 2016 23:59 UTC-11 The 23rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security will be held from October 24 – 28, 2016 at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria and is organized by SBA Research. Read More
The time has come to become a TLS-Hipster. Thomas Konrad gave a talk on how to get the knack of managing your SSL/TLS landscape. Free certificates from Let´s Encrypt, OCSP Stapling, HTTP Public Key Pinning, HSTS and detailed instructions on how to finally configure your TLS in the right way. Compatibility included. Martin… Read More
Our Tutorial ‘Cryptographic Currencies Crash Course‘ (Aljosha Judmayer, Edgar Weippl) has been accepted at WWW2016. We also have a workshop on empirical research methods at the conference.
EURASIP Journal on Information Security welcomes submissions to the new special issue on ARES 2015 / Cyber-Physical Systems In this special issue we want to explore security aspects of cyberphysical systems (CPS). We invite submission that address security issues of CPS and look at some specific topics related to… Read More
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 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. ... ∞