SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
The ARES 2020 Conference, hosted by SBA Research, is currently taking place as all-digital conference. We are very happy to presenting a diverse program to more than 300 participants from over 43 countries, including: 27 full papers (acceptance rate: 21.26%) and 6 short papers 82 workshop… Read More
While taking a university course on security, Philipp Danzinger discovered two critical related vulnerabilities in KeePassRPC, an addon for the popular password manager KeePass. Both vulnerabilities allow a malicious web site to read and leak (unlocked) KeePass databases, while being very hard or impossible to detect, provided the KeePassRPC addon is… Read More
In the online attack / defense CTF competition ENOWARS4, We_0wn_Y0u got the 2nd place out of 154 teams! A big thanks to ENOFLAG and TU Berlin for hosting the event! Congratulations to all members of… Read More
SBA Research, the Vienna Competence Center for Information Security, will be funded for another four years within the framework of COMET – Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies Report of the FFG On 16 June 2020, the mid-term evaluation of SBA-K1, the COMET flagship research program of SBA Research, took… Read More
Security in the digital world is not only one of the main 2020 topics of the association fit4internet in cooperation with the Federal Ministry for Digitalization and Business Location (BMDW), but is also centrally dealt with in the new Digital Action Plan Austria. Respective future steps were presented by the… Read More
Since 1980, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for presenting developments in computer security and electronic privacy, and for bringing together researchers and practitioners in the field. For the first time, the 2020 Symposium took part as a full virtual conference. Despite the challenges… Read More
German version below Experts from epicenter.works, noyb.eu and SBA Research evaluated the Stopp Corona app of the Austrian Red Cross (ÖRK) with regards to data security and privacy. No critical security gaps were found, but there… Read More
As of March 13, 2020, Dimitris Simos holds a Guest Researcher appointment with US NIST and is affiliated with the Applied Computational Mathematics Division (ACMD) of the Information Technology Lab (ITL) [1]. In his capacity as an off-site collaborator, Dimitris will further strengthen the ties between SBA’s MATRIS group [2]… Read More
German version below SBA Research experts use reverse engineering to analyze the Android version of the Red Cross Stop Corona app for data security. Technical statement on the analysis. The Stop Corona app of the Austrian Red Cross has been raising questions since it went online some… Read More
We are all asked to stay home for the time being. Invest your home office time in further educating yourself with the SBA Live Academy Be sure to join in! Tuesday – Thursday from 13:00 to… Read More
Our colleague Sebastian Raubitzek, researcher at SBA Research and a member of the Security and Privacy Research Group at the University of Vienna, has published a journal article titled Classification of Obfuscation Techniques in LLVM IR: Machine Learning on Vector Representations in MDPI's journal Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction. ... ∞