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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.

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Recent News:

Edgar Weippl joins University of Vienna as full professor

We are proud to announce that our research director Edgar Weippl got accepted as full professor for security & privacy at the University of Vienna. In addition to his role at SBA Research, he will take up his new responsibilities in early January 2020. Congratulations!… Read More

From Austria to America – PEZ love

Meet Brandon – a passionate PEZ collector! After a long journey from Austria to the US, the SBA Research PEZ candy packs have arrived at Brandon’s home. We are very happy that we were able to support Brandon with his collection! 
From Austria to America – PEZ love

Rudolf Mayer @ workshop “AI for Production”

Rudolf Mayer was one of five experts that gave input and practical experience at the workshop “AI for Production”, hosted by the platform Industrie 4.0 in cooperation with the Mechatronik Cluster. He chaired the discussion group on the topic “is machine learning safe?”. Read More
Rudolf Mayer @ workshop “AI for Production”

SBA supports BSides 2019

Supporting BSides enables us to emphasize the emerging need for IT-Security in Austria and Europe. BSides features a series of international events promoting independent security research and education as well as discourse and collaboration within the community. Bringing this year´s edition to Vienna provided a great opportunity… Read More

SBA Research hosts two Charity Punsch Sessions!

As every year SBA Research is going to host two punch sessions at Graben 31, 1010 Vienna. Come and visit us, every punsch you drink will be donated to Lions Club Wien Vindobona. With your help many different projects and people in need can be supported. So join… Read More
SBA Research hosts two Charity Punsch Sessions!

Markus Klemen @ FinanzTalk of Forum Finanzen

CEO Markus Klemen gave a keynote about cybercrime, economic fraud and other threats at the FinanzTalk of the Finance Forum. The event was hosted by voestalpine. Other speakers were Robert Kastil providing his financial forecast for 2020 and Gilbert Wondracek. Read More
Markus Klemen @ FinanzTalk of Forum Finanzen

SBA hosts 3rd CONCORDIA General Assembly

As partner of the CONCORDIA project SBA Research is hosting the CONCORDIA General Assembly on November 27-28, 2019 at Europahaus Wien. Find out more about the Concordia project
SBA hosts 3rd CONCORDIA General Assembly

We_0wn_Y0u CTF Team scores 9th Place at RuCTFE

We_0wn_Y0u, a CTF team comprised of SBA researchers and students/alumni of TU Wien, secured the 9th place at RuCTFE, out of almost 400 registered participants. This was made possible by the support of 40 students from the Capture the Flag SE LVA at TU Wien, despite RuCTFE being the first… Read More
We_0wn_Y0u CTF Team scores 9th Place at RuCTFE

Platform Industry 4.0 – How to do Social Engineering?

At the security and safety practice day of Platform Industry 4.0 Alexander Schatten talked about social engineering and how to enter IT systems, steal money or trick someone to get into an office building without getting recognized as an intruder.
Platform Industry 4.0 – How to do Social Engineering?