SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
SBA Research is holding the current workshop for the international DIAMONDS project in Vienna (http://www.itea2-diamonds.org/index.html). This meeting brings together specialists from all over europe to discuss current developments on the security testing sector.
“Arguably, one of the major shortcomings of many organizations today is an inherent division between the security team and the network and system administration staff. To bridge this gap, and also to enable administrators in smaller companies to perform their duties in a more security-oriented fashion, Timothy “Thor” Mullen’s Microsoft… Read More
International Journal of Secure Software Engineering (IJSSE), Special Issue Call for Papers “Lessons learned in engineering secure & dependable Web applications” Special Issue Editors: Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF ICT, Norway Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria Riccardo Scandariato, KU Leuven, Belgium Cfp… Read More
Dynamix: A Community-centric, Plug-and-Play Context Framework Mobile users increasingly expect software applications to adapt fluidly across a broad range of everyday situations, environments and hardware platforms. Although contextual information is widely recognized as an essential foundation of self-adapting software, existing context modeling and management techniques presuppose significant domain expertise in… Read More
The Vienna ACM SIGSAC Chapter has been chartered by ACM’s Chief Operating Officer on February 13, 2012. SBA Research is strongly involved in this chapter. … Read More
” (Without meaning to advocate over-reliance on it, penetration tests usually require a certain suite of tools. While standard utilities such as nmap, dirbuster and sqlmap tend to meet the needs of testers in most situations, some tricky assessments call for custom development or at least a skilled combination of… Read More
We are proud to announce that we joined the Linux Foundation Europe, further strengthening our role within the international open-source community. With this step, we are reinforcing our commitment to advancing security and resilience in digital infrastructures. ... ∞
David Schmidt, PhD student at CD-Lab AsTra, Sebastian Schrittwieser, key researcher at SBA Research and head of the CD-Lab, and Edgar Weippl, scientific director at SBA Research and full professor for security & privacy at the University of Vienna, received the Distinguished Paper Award at ACM CCS 2025 (A*-rated) for their work Leaky Apps: Large-scale Analysis of Secrets Distributed in Android and iOS Apps. ... ∞