Gilbert Wondracek joined SBA research as senior researcher

March 28, 2011

We are happy to have Gilbert Wondracek as a senior researcher on our team. His last two IEEE S&P papers: Gilbert Wondracek, Thorsten Holz, Engin Kirda, and Christopher Kruegel. 2010. A Practical Attack to De-anonymize Social Network Users. In Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy… Read More

INMOTOS website online

March 17, 2011

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

March 15, 2011

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

Markus Huber received grant for Einsteins in the City 2011

March 14, 2011

Markus Huber received a grant from the Vienna University of Technology to attend the Einsteins in the City 2011 conference in New York. He will present our latest research results on social network forensic.

Gilbert Wondracek in the Economist

March 13, 2011

“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

Sebastian Schrittwieser post graduate research at NII

March 4, 2011

Sebastian will stay 5 months at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo, Japan.

Invited Talk at NII

March 1, 2011

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

Österreichs Rolle im IT-Markt der Dach-Region (Future Networks)

February 21, 2011

Markus Klemen and Edgar Weippl are panelists at Future-Network’s event on “Austria’s role in IT markets in Germany, Austria and Switzerland”.

IEEE Internet Computing Special Issue on Security and Privacy in Social Networks

February 2, 2011

Our manuscript “Friend-in-the-middle Attacks: Exploiting Social Networking Sites for Spam” has been accepted for the upcoming special issue on Security and Privacy in Social Networks in the IEEE Journal of Internet Computing in May/Jun 2011. Preprint is available here. In this article we have introduced… Read More

IPhone privacy

February 1, 2011

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

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