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SBA Research is a research center for Information Security
funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.

Recent News:

INMOTOS website online

Interdependencies among Critical Infrastructures, both inside the ICT domain and between ICT and other sectors (e.g. Oil&Gas and Transport), are complex to be understood. Critical Infrastructures risks always change due to new threats, interdependencies and possible scenarios. Read More

ADV Seminar on Virtualization

ADV organized a seminar on virtualization at SBA Research. Edgar Weippl gave a presentation on security foundations.

Gilbert Wondracek in the Economist

“Gilbert Wondracek at the Vienna University of Technology in Austria and his colleagues built a history-stealing website aimed at groups on Xing, a business-orientated social network. Mr Wondracek’s analysis of over 6,500 Xing groups, containing a total of more than 1.8m users, suggested that his rogue site would be able… Read More

Invited Talk at NII

Edgar Weippl gives an invited talk at NII. Whenever data is being processed, there are many places where parts of the data are temporarily stored; thus forensic analysis can reveal past activities, create a (partial) timeline and restore deleted data. While this fact is well known for computer forensic and… Read More

IPhone privacy

Our partners at ISecLab have a nice paper on privacy and IPhones (German heise Article)

Guest talk / Seminar: John Tait

Guest talk: John Tait 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 thesauri. The other is based on emergent… Read More