Keynote at SECRYPT 2014

August 29, 2014

Edgar Weippl gives a keynote on Advanced Persistent Threats & Social Engineering at the 11th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2014), wich takes place from 28 – 30 August 2014 in Vienna.

Keynote at CRISIS 2014

August 28, 2014

Edgar Weippl gives a keynote on Empirical and Applied Research in Information Security at the CRISIS 2014 conference in Trento.

“Security Researchers Start Counter-Surveillance” – media coverage IMSI-Catcher-Catcher

August 27, 2014

The IMSI-Catcher-Catcher in the media: heise.de, derstandard.at short version / paper as preprint IMSI-Catcher-Catcher… Read More

IMSI-Catch Me If You Can: IMSI-Catcher-Catchers – paper accepted at ACSAC 2014

August 27, 2014

We are proud to announce, that our paper “IMSI-Catch Me If You Can: IMSI-Catcher-Catchers” has been accepted to the 2014 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC). In this paper, we identify and describe multiple methods for detecting artifacts in the mobile network produced by IMSI Catchers. IMSI Catchers are used… Read More

Guest talk: “Security challenges in industrial systems”

August 26, 2014

Dr. Artemios G. Voyiatzis, Associate Researcher, Industrial Systems Institute, “Athena” Research and Innovation Center in ICT, Greece gives a talk about “Security challenges in industrial systems”. Abstract Tuesday, June 26, 2014, 10.00 – 11.30 This event is hosted by the Vienna ACM SIGSAC Chapter. Read More

SBA Research @ USENIX

August 22, 2014

Adrian Dabrowski, Martina Lindorfer and Johanna Ullrich visited the flagship conference Usenix Security Symposium, held from 20-22 August in San Diego, California. As usual, the conference hosted a variety of interesting talks covering a vast amont of different aspects in computer security. Johanna presented her paper on IPv6 Security at… Read More

Visit at SBA Research

August 20, 2014

A delegation of professors and researchers from the Changwon National University in South Korea visited SBA Research to learn about the successful COMET model where industry and researchers collaborate tightly in long-term research projects.

TechCamp Summer School

August 19, 2014

Edgar Weippl gave the opening lecture of the TechCamp Summer School that is organized in cooperation with the Vienna University of Technology and our partner company LBS, funded by the European Union. The TechCamp takes place from 19 – 28 August, 2014 at the Vienna University of Technology. 30 students… Read More

Der Standard berichtet über Forschungsprojekte Diana und Diango

August 13, 2014

derStandard.at berichtet “Dafür soll ein Nachfolgeprojekt namens “Diango” sogar in der Lage sein, Bilder auszuwerten. Genau wie “Diana” wird es von Verteidigungs- und Innenministerium gefördert und unter Leitung der SBA-Research GmbH entwickelt.”… Read More

“Make sure you have all the updates; make sure you use a browser that is not standard; and pursue more training—talk about the threat.”

August 12, 2014

Engin Kirda et al. analyzed nearly 1,500 suspicious e-mail messages targeting a human-rights NGO. “The team found that, while the malware managed to reliably evade detection by many antivirus programs, the attacks were relatively unsophisticated, using known vulnerabilities that had already been patched.” Read the whole article here. The paper will be presented… Read More

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