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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:

SBA Research – securepizza.club – 2025
10.04.2025
SBA @ ISACA TrendTalks
08.05.2025
Training: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) – Prüfungsvorbereitungskurs – Teil 1
02.06.2025 - 04.06.2025

Recent News:

USENIX Security ’11: Dark Clouds on the Horizon

In August we will present our work on cloud storage security at the 20th USENIX Security Symposium in San Francisco. The paper, in essence, outlines new attacks on cloud storage services that use server-side data deduplication. It includes a security analysis of Dropbox, a popular cloud storage service. By… Read More

Jan Svab: FPGA-based Computer Vision Embedded Module

The presentation firstly covers the basics properties of image local feature extraction algorithms. Then a little bit closer description of algorithm selected for the implementation – SURF – and the platform – FPGA. Then it contains a summary of reasons why a new completely custom solution has been developed. The… Read More

John Tait: Patent Search- a Challenging Problem!

1030 am: Guest talk by John Tait Patent Search – a Challenging Problem! To be valid a patent has to show that it it describes a novel and useful idea. The test of novelty is that at the date of filing there does not exist in the public… Read More

Security in Social Media – Talks at BildungOnline

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

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

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

Research Talk: Designing Truthful Mechanisms

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)

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