SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
futurezone.at interviewed Edgar Weippl, covering a wide array of topics from the advancement of young talents to Blockchain to critical infrastructures. In the light of the increasing digitalization, two issues are more important than ever: protecting privacy and securing the integrity of information. The systems we build today are… Read More
The second virtual ARES & CD-MAKE conference was held from August 17 to August 20, 2021. We were proud to welcome over 340 participants from 39+ countries to this second all-digital ARES & CD-MAKE conference! The four conference days were filled with internationally renowned keynote speakers,… Read More
The Cyber Security Quiz, a learning and gaming app for learning security and privacy, is nominated in the category “Education and human resources development” of this year eAward. We are all online almost every day. But few know the footprint we leave on the internet and the dangers… Read More
As one of four experts, Edgar Weippl was interviewed for the most recent issue of South Tyrol’s “Zett” am Sonntag. In his statement, he sheds light on cyber espionage on state level and illustrates some worrying consequences of the – due to the pandemic – hastened digitalization of businesses. Furthermore,… Read More
SBA Research is happy to announce that the KIRAS project “G-Star: Gesamtstaatliche Erfassung der Resilienz im Kontext komplexer Krisenszenarien“ was granted. Kevin Mallinger and Johanna Ullrich (SBA Research) will be working on the project in cooperation with the BKA (Federal Chancellery Republic Austria), BMI… Read More
The IT sector in Austria makes a substantial contribution to the Austrian economy. Due to a shortage of skilled, it is in danger of running out of steam. The fact that there are not enough female technicians is mainly due to the traditional role model in IT. In the interview… Read More
DECSYS, SBA’s Decentralized Systems Group, and their BRIDGE project SESC – Secure Execution of Smart Contracts have recently been featured as an FFG Success Story. DECSYS conducts research beyond hype topics like cryptocurrencies in order to achieve a better understanding of DLT requirements, identify… Read More
In this episode of “Mayrs Magazin” covering the Pegasus affair, Edgar Weippl explains why end user devices are the best attack points in mobile communication.
Starting today, the 26th conference on Applications of Computer Algebra (ACA’2021) takes place in a virtual setting until next Tuesday, July 27, 2021. Dimitris Simos, the leader of SBA Research’s MATRIS research group, serves as the program chair. The conference is organized… Read More
On July 6th, as part of the TU Wien course “Digitale Kompetenzen @ Parlament”, our Key Researchers Martina Lindorfer and Johanna Ullrich gave lectures for members and staff of the Austrian parliament. They covered the topics security, networks and cyber-physical systems. … Read More
A new paper, “Automated Reasoning for Indistinguishability in the CCSA,” co-authored by Laura Kovács, key researcher at SBA Research and full professor at the Faculty of Informatics of the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), and Matteo Maffei, key researcher at SBA Research and Professor at TU Wien, has been accepted for presentation at the 33rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS). ∞
The 21th International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security (ARES 2026) took center stage in Linköping, Sweden, from August 24 - 27, 2026, offering a platform for experts and enthusiasts to explore the latest developments in the field. The conference was jointly organised by Linköpings universitet (LiU) and SBA Research. ∞
New paper “Send and Pretend: Exploiting Transcript Consistency Issues in End-to-End Encrypted Group Chats”, was recently accepted for the 35th USENIX Security Symposium. The paper is a collaboration between SBA, the University of Vienna, and the Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria (IT:U). It was authored by Gabriel K. Gegenhuber, Moritz Grefner, Maximilian Günther, Matthäus Wininger, David Schmidt, and Aljosha Judmayer. ∞