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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.

Upcoming Events:

IEEE Euro S&P 2024
08.07.2024 - 12.07.2024
ARES 2024
30.07.2024 - 02.08.2024
Training: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) – Prüfungsvorbereitungskurs – Teil 1
30.09.2024 - 02.10.2024

Recent News:

D-A-CH Security

On Sep 21 and 22, SBA and the Vienna University of Technology host the D-A-CH Security conference. The proceedings have been edited by Peter Schartner and Edgar Weippl (more…)

Edgar Weippl joined the editorial board of Computers & Security (COSE)

Elsevier Advanced Technologies publishes 8 issues of Computers & Security (COSE) annually; the journal began publication in 1981, and is concluding publication of volume 29.  It is the oldest journal in print in the area of computing and information security and privacy.   Beginning in 1983, COSE became the official… Read More

Security in Social Networks

Sep 14, Edgar Weippl presents a summary of SBA’s research on social networks in Zurich (Der Standard)

Wiener Forschungsfest

SBA is part of the Wiener Forschungsfest, an outreach program to make research results accessible to the general public (more…)

Verification, Validation, and Evaluation in Information Security Risk Management

Our article “Verification, Validation, and Evaluation in Information Security Risk Management” (Authors: Stefan Fenz and Andreas Ekelhart) got accepted at IEEE Security & Privacy. Check out the preprint at the IEEE Digital Library. Abstract: Over the last four decades, various information security risk management (ISRM) approaches have emerged. However,… Read More

Markus Huber at CMU

Markus Huber will work this summer on his research in Social Networking Privacy and Security at Carnegie Mellon University with Alessandro Acquisti.

Technical report: Friend-In-The-Middle (FITM) Attacks

Abstract. In the ongoing arms race between spammers and the multi-million dollar anti-spam industry, the number of unsolicited e-mail messages (better known as “spam”) and phishing has increased heavily in the last decade. In this paper, we show that our novel friend-in-the-middle attack on social networking sites (SNSs) can be… Read More

“INFORM” awarded 2nd place

The SBA FIT-IT proposal “INFORM” (Internet Forensic Framework) has been awarded the 2nd place in the competition for the best proposal among all proposals for “Trust in IT-Systems” in 2009. The goal of “INFORM” is to study current challenges in computer forensics and to produce tools that enricht the toolset… Read More

Social Engineering Bot and Porn Sites

Our researchers of ISecLab have recently released some nice papers that are quoted on slashdot (see 1 and 2). More news reports on PCWorld, BBC and darkreading.