Security in Social Media – Talks at BildungOnline

June 6, 2011

Managing director Markus Klemen gave two talks at the BildungOnline conference in Hall in Tirol focusing on Security in Social Media. The Austrian Computer Society (OCG) organized the talk. The target audience were teachers, students and parents.

Ivona Brandic, Energy Efficient Clouds

May 31, 2011

Ivona Brandic, Energy Efficient Clouds May 31, 10am SBA Cloud computing is a promising technology for the realization of large, scalable, and on-demand provisioned computing infrastructures. Currently, many enterprises are adopting this technology to achieve high performance and scalability for their applications while maintaining low cost. Service provisioning… Read More

IMPACT 2011

May 17, 2011

Im Rahmen von IMPACT 2011 fanden vier interessante Vorträge statt. Prof. Dr. Stefan Katzenbeisser – TU Darmstadt – Privacy by Design – Technischer Datenschutz für hochsensible Daten Prof. Davide Balzarotti, Ph.D. – EURECOM Sophia Antipolis – G-Free: Defeating Return-Oriented Programming through Gadget-less Binaries Prof. Dr. Günther Pernul –… Read More

Seminar on Social Network Security at DSV Forum

May 10, 2011

Markus Huber will hold a seminar on Social Network Security at the DSV Form in Stockholm on the 19th of May.

Research Talk: Designing Truthful Mechanisms

May 10, 2011

May 10, 2011, 10am @ SBA: Designing Truthful Mechanisms Angelina Vidali In this talk I will present my work on many different aspects of one of the most fundamental problems in algorithmic game theory (and more specifically algorithmic mechanism design), the problem of scheduling unrelated machines to… Read More

Leak in Tor for Android (Orbot)

May 2, 2011

While performing traffic analysis on the current development version of Orbot, the official Android for Tor app, Manuel Leithner (Junior Researcher, SBA Research gGmbH) discovered that certain types of traffic (including VPN, GPS and videos) were not tunnelled through Tor. He subsequently developed a patch that enables full and… Read More

Talk by Daniel S Yeung on “Sensitivity Based Generalization Error for Single and Multiple Classifier Systems with Applications”

April 26, 2011

Sensitivity Based Generalization Error for Single and Multiple Classifier Systems with Applications Abstract Generalization error model provides a theoretical support for a classifier’s performance in terms of prediction accuracy. However, existing models give very loose error bounds. This explains why classification systems generally rely on experimental validation for their claims… Read More

Martin Mulazzani now works on Trudie

April 24, 2011

Martin Mulazzani now works on Trudie (TRUDIE – Trust Relationships in the Underground Economy, Sponsor: FIT-IT Trust in IT-Systems 3. Call, Austria)

USENIX Security ’11: Paper accepted

April 18, 2011

Our paper Dark Clouds on the Horizon: Using Cloud Storage as Attack Vector and Online Slack Space was accepted. Unfortunately we cannot provide a preprint because the affected vendor(s) still need the time to fix some things…… Read More

SBA master student discovers flaw in Ruby on Rails

April 9, 2011

Rails 3.0.5 doesn’t validate the input for the X-Forwarded-For field in the header sent by clients with a class C remote-addr. (see: TRUSTED_PROXIES). (Security Focus, more details…)

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