SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
The first International Summer School on Security & Privacy for Blockchains and Distributed Ledger Technologies started with the official opening remarks from Edgar Weippl and Brigitte Lutz (City of Vienna). Philipp Schindler then kicked off the main track with his talk on “Building Blocks for Blockchains and Distributed… Read More
How a free data transfer can connect with IT-Security will be discussed at the Privacy and Ethics at Forum Alpbach. TU Austria, a merge of the Technical University Vienna, Technical University Graz and the University of Leoben, is organizing a highly engaged Breakout Session and Workshop. Several Topics are covering… Read More
Katharina Pfeffer joined the Seminar on Software Protection Decision Support and Evaluation Methodologies taking place from August 11-16 at Schloss Dagstuhl. This Dagstuhl Seminar on Software Protection Decision Support and Evaluation Methodologies addressed open challenges in developing a holistic, generally applicable methodology and tool support to model and evaluate… Read More
Artificial Intelligence – certainly one of the most hyped topics of our time – has been the motto of this year´s IMPACT. Bestseller author Karl Olsberg´s highly anticipated keynote on “Artificial Intelligence and Human Stupidity” opened the door for a lively discussion shedding light on myth and reality. Read More
Kathrin is a medical oncologist at the Center of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Wilhelminenspital, Wien. Kathrin is the medical lead of the project “Semantische Suche” run by the Clinical Research Center of Wiener Krankenanstaltenverbund. The goal of this project is to extract data (diagnoses, medication, services etc.) from unstructured… Read More
We had a great time at the 5th security Meetup @ SBA Research! +50 participants 6 Application Security Design Patterns Good time at our terrace Don’t miss our next meetup on 04 September!Topic: “Secure Credential Management with Vault in Kubernetes”… Read More
Tomasz Miksa, acting as the co-chair of the DMP Common Standards working group, presented a new standard for machine-actionable DMPs at the webinar organised by Research Data Alliance (RDA). The webinar attracted more than 230 participants from all around the world. The webinar focused on RDA groups and… Read More
Researchers have developed a program that enables identification of almost every American through anonymized data.Maha Sounble gave a talk on “pseudonymization vs anonomyzation” at the 2019 sec4dev conference + bootcamp. Read more
Topic: Blockchain applications in mobility, transport and logistics and IoT On the 23rd of July, Stephanie Jakoubi represented SBA at the 7th Vienna Blockchain Chapter Meeting which was held at the ÖBB Open Innovation Lab. Over 100 participants used the chance to get an overview of mobility and logistics… Read More
6 Application Security Design Patterns You Should Know In this Meetup, we will have a look at 6 application security design patterns that, if considered early, will make your life easier in terms of securing your application. More information!… Read More
We are proud to announce that we joined the Linux Foundation Europe, further strengthening our role within the international open-source community. With this step, we are reinforcing our commitment to advancing security and resilience in digital infrastructures. ... ∞
David Schmidt, PhD student at CD-Lab AsTra, Sebastian Schrittwieser, key researcher at SBA Research and head of the CD-Lab, and Edgar Weippl, scientific director at SBA Research and full professor for security & privacy at the University of Vienna, received the Distinguished Paper Award at ACM CCS 2025 (A*-rated) for their work Leaky Apps: Large-scale Analysis of Secrets Distributed in Android and iOS Apps. ... ∞