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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:

Linux Security for Embedded Systems Workshop
05.12.2024
Vienna Unikraft Workshop 2024
07.12.2024 - 08.12.2024
Training: SOC (Security Operation Centers) – Basis Kurs
09.12.2024 - 13.12.2024

Recent News:

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.

“Digital Genome” Safeguards Dying Data Formats

quoted from ACM  Queue: “European researchers have deposited a “digital genome” time capsule inside a data storage facility known as the Swiss Fort Knox, which contains a blueprint that future generations can use to read data stored using obsolete technology. The capsule is the result of the four-year Planets… Read More