SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
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.
“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 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
Katharina Krombholz im Standard über ihre Forschung zur Verbesserung der Benutzerfreundlichkeitvon Technologien. Den Artikel gibt es hier zu lesen. Read More
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
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, 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
Antitza Dantcheva, post-doctoral fellow at the STARS team, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France, gives a guest talk about “Soft Biometrics: Applications in Security, Beauty Estimation and Healthcare”. Abstract Tuesday, 07.07.2015 , 14:00-15:00 This event is hosted by the Vienna ACM SIGSAC Chapter.
Edgar Weippl was on a panel discussion on new business models, technology and legal constraints. “Cloud solutions allow startups to scale their technical infrastructure quickly, but scaling is hard when it comes to different national legal systems” (OTS, Video statements, Photos). Photos: APA-Fotoservice/Preiss… 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. ... ∞