SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
SBA Research attended the IT-SeCX, the annual security exchange event of the FH St. Pölten, which took place on November 4th 2016. Researchers of SBA Research presented multiple talks at the IT-SeCX 2016, including Peter Kieseberg, Martin Schmiedecker, Damjan Buhov, and Adrian Dabrowski. You can find the subset of the… Read More
Today is the official start of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’16) in the Hofburg, Vienna, Austria. The first keynote was held by Dr. Hellman, recipient of the 2015 ACM A.M. Turing Award. Numerous members of SBA are around as well as staffing our info… Read More
The European Cybersecurity Talks – boosting the Cybersecurity Industry event took place during the ACM CCS Conference on October, 24 at Hofburg Vienna. The event was organized by SBA Research in cooperation with KSÖ and BM.I, supported by the City of Vienna (Vienna Business Agency)… Read More
Our paper titled “Block Me If You Can: A Large-Scale Study of Tracker-Blocking Tools” has been accepted for publication at IEEE EuroS&P 2017. The paper is a joint work of SBA Research (G. Merzdovnik, D. Buhov, S. Neuner, M. Schmiedecker, and E. Weippl), FH St. Pölten (M. Huber), and… Read More
Ludwig Kampel presents the paper „Set-based Algorithms for Combinatorial Test Set Generation” (joint work with Dimitris E. Simos) at ICTSS 2016 taking place October 17 – 19 2016, in Graz. This paper proposes a modular algorithmic framework for the generation of covering arrays based on… Read More
Kristoffer Kleine and Bernhard Garn presented the paper „A Combinatorial Approach to Analyzing Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerabilities in Web Application Security Testing” at ICTSS 2016 taking place October 17 – 19 2016, in Graz. This work is a joint contribution between SBA Research (Dimitris E. Simos,… Read More
Today is the first day of the 21th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2016). Two of our researchers, Stefan Brunthaler and Johanna Ullrich, are attending; Johanna is presenting her paper on attacks exploiting Xen rate limits tomorrow. ESORICS 2016… Read More
The second joint workshop between NIST and SBA Research on combinatorial security testing was held at SBA Research, Vienna on August 4th, 2016. The scope of the workshop was to strengthen the existing and already high successful cooperation between the Combinatorial Security Testing team of SBA Research and the ACTS… Read More
Adrian Dabrowski talking at the “#heiseshow” about the finale of the Cyber Grand Challenge, the world´s first all-machine hacking tournament, which took place at the DefCon 2016 conference. Watch it here: The full article/ show can also be at heise online or YouTube. Read More
Alexander Schatten, senior researcher at SBA Research and Marco Reiser published an interesting article on "What programming at prompt level leads to". Where can AI systems really help programmers and is the approach taken here really new? This article takes a look at their role. ... ∞
Michael Koppmann, senior information security consultant and Alexander Schatten, senior researcher at SBA Research, published an interesting article regarding KI Assistants and LLMs and how to check the code quality on heise online. ... ∞