SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Sebastian Schrittwieser presented a talk on ethics in computer security research at the Chaos Communication Congress (29c3) in Hamburg. You can watch the recording on Youtube. Read More
Towards a Secure DNS (Dec 13, 2pm, SBA) Most caching DNS resolvers still rely for their security, against poisoning, on validating that the DNS responses contain some ‘unpredictable’ values, copied from the request. These values include the 16 bit identifier field, and other fields, randomised and validated by different… Read More
The last FemTech internships were very successful. The work of Katharina Krombholz led to a journal publication (‘Fake Identities in Social Media – A case study on the sustainability of the Facebook business model’) which was adopted by Springer Journal of Service Science Research.
On 09/11/2012 SBA Research presents at the IT-SeCX an der FH St. Pölten. at FH St. Pölten. Sebastian Schrittwieser talks about “WhatsApp and Co.: Attack Vectors in Smartphone Messengers”. … Read More
After a successful 1st Young Researcher’s Day in March 2012, we now start in round two! Ingrid Schaumüller-Bichl and Edgar Weippl cordially invite to the 2nd Young Researcher’s Day which will take place during the OCG working group „IT Security“ on 29/11/2012. The basic idea behind this event is the… Read More
Researchers of SBA Research and the SecLab of the Vienna University of Technology participated successfully in the world’s most recognized capture the flag tournament at DEFCON 2012 in Las Vegas Following a tough qualification with hundreds of competing teams, our team “We_Own_You” made its way to the final round with… Read More
Alexander Schatten, senior researcher at SBA Research and Marco Reiser published an interesting article on "What programming at prompt level leads to". Where can AI systems really help programmers and is the approach taken here really new? This article takes a look at their role. ... ∞
Michael Koppmann, senior information security consultant and Alexander Schatten, senior researcher at SBA Research, published an interesting article regarding KI Assistants and LLMs and how to check the code quality on heise online. ... ∞