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funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.

Recent News:

Web Salon 2012

Heute (1. Februar) um 19 Uhr bietet Manuel Leithner im Rahmen des Web Salon 2012, veranstaltet von saferinternet.at, in Form eines Webinars praktische Tips und Informationen zum Thema Sicherheit auch für Computerunvertraute an. Die Teilnahme ist frei, Anmeldung jedoch erforderlich.

Guest talk: John Tait on Semantic Search: New Developments

Semantic Search: New Developments John Tait, Jan 31, 14:30 SBA Research The term Semantic Search is becoming fashionable, but there are a number of problems with the term. 1) There are at least two forms of semantic search. One is based more-or-less hand programmed knowledge sources, like domain ontologies or… Read More

IEEE Spectrum: A Cloud you can trust

“In a paper they presented at the Usenix Security Symposium in August, Martin Mulazzani and his colleagues at SBA Research [PDF], in Vienna, described several ways in which deduplication could be used to access files uploaded to Dropbox. ” (quoted verbatim from Christian Cachin et al., A Cloud you… Read More

BSidesVienna Public Transport Talk

At BSidesVienna 2012, Manuel Leithner gave a talk on public transport titled “Hackers on a train – Toying with transportation”, detailing equipment and possible flaws in the on-board network infrastructure and ticketing system of WESTbahn.

Artikel zum IKT-Sicherheitsseminar

Die aktuelle Ausgabe der Zeitschrift Öffentliche Sicherheit enthält einen Artikel zum IKT-Sicherheitsseminar, wo Markus Klemen einen Vortrag zum Thema Soziale Netzwerke gehalten hat. Read More

Stefan Katzenbeisser at 28C3

The key researcher Stefan Katzenbeisser gave a talk at 28C3 (derStandard.at, heise.de, futurezone.at, diePresse.com, reuters.com, telegraph.co.uk, bbc.co.uk)

Femtech Praktika: Katharina Krombholz

Ein Praktikumsantrag im Rahmen des Femtech-Programms (http://www.ffg.at/femtech-praktika) wurde angenommen. Katharina Krombholz wird im Jänner ein Praktikum und eine Diplomarbeit zum Sicherheit in Sozialen Netzwerken beginnen und bestehende Forschungsarbeiten unterstützen.

NII Joint Research Seminar

Our researchers plan future research in cooperation with NII: Dr. N. Sonehara,  Information and Society Research Director at NII and Project Reader at ROIS/TRIC. Dr. Y. Ichifuji, ROIS/TRIC Dr. I. Echizen, Associate Professor at NII. Dr. S. Wohlgemuth, Associate Professor at NII and ROIS/TRIC  … Read More