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“Make sure you have all the updates; make sure you use a browser that is not standard; and pursue more training—talk about the threat.”

Engin Kirda et al. analyzed nearly 1,500 suspicious e-mail messages targeting a human-rights NGO. “The team found that, while the malware managed to reliably evade detection by many antivirus programs, the attacks were relatively unsophisticated, using known vulnerabilities that had already been patched.” Read the whole article here. The paper will be presented… Read More

SACMAT 2015 in Vienna

SACMAT 2015 will be held in Vienna from June 1-3; SBA Research is the local organizer.      

This was DBSec’14

The 28th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec’14) was held in Vienna, Austria from 14-16 July 2014, organized by SBA Research. Keynote by Chris Clifton Conference Dinner Award Ceremony Special Coffee Break… Read More

TechNIKE Workshop in Cooperation with the „wienXtra-Ferienspiel“

Katharina Krombholz and Martina Lindorfer of SBA Research organize a TechNIKE workshop on “Security on the Internet: Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagramm & Co” at the TU Wien. The aim is to enthuse girls aged between 10 and 14 years for technology. This is an initiative of the TU Wien (project genderfair)… Read More

Adrian Dabrowski and Alexej Strelzow accepted at NII for an internship

Adrian Dabrowski and Alexej Strelzow are accepted at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo for an internship. Alexej Strelzow will participate in the research area of Artificial Intelligence/Web Informatics which is headed by Prof. Hideaki Takeda. Alexej’s research focus will be Semantic Web and Linked (Open) Data. Adrian Dabrowski… Read More

IMPACT 2014

The IMPACT 2014 was a great success: exciting expert lectures, posters and lightning talks on our latest research as well as plenty to eat and drink. The program, slides and some pictures are available here. We thank you for your participation!… Read More

Heartbleed Threat Situation in Austria

Since April 9, SBA Research performs a daily scan of all Austrian IP addresses (approximately 12 million) due to the acute threat situation. Thereby, 121,420 IP addresses have been identified that respond to an HTTPS request for a webpage. Each server can be home to one or multiple sites. Of… Read More