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What to do if your account has been hacked? Stefan Jakoubi gives advice in futurezone interview.

May 22, 2020

Email, online banking, Facebook and shopping portals all require the creation of an account and this must be protected with a password. Ideally this is not “123456” or “hello”. But even a strong password can be hacked by professionals. The attackers also get the data directly from a company. Only… Read More

What to do if your account has been hacked? Stefan Jakoubi gives advice in futurezone interview.

Christian Kudera in ZIB 1 about the Stopp Corona-App review

April 23, 2020

Christian Kudera talked in ZIB 1 (watch here) about the findings of our Stopp Corona-App review regarding datasecurity and privacy. The analysis was a joint effort of epicenter.works, SBA… Read More

Christian Kudera in ZIB 1 about the Stopp Corona-App review

Evaluation of the Stopp Corona app of the Austrian Res Cross – “Immediate improvements through expert report”

April 22, 2020

German version below Experts from epicenter.works, noyb.eu and SBA Research evaluated the Stopp Corona app of the Austrian Red Cross (ÖRK) with regards to data security and privacy. No critical security gaps were found, but there… Read More

Evaluation of the Stopp Corona app of the Austrian Res Cross – “Immediate improvements through expert report”

Source code review “Stopp Corona App”

April 11, 2020

The Austrian Red Cross and Accenture GmbH offered us access to the source code of the “Stopp Corona App”. We will take a deeper look into the app to provide a new technical statement with regard to security and privacy issues of the updated “Stopp Corona App” (Version 1.1). We… Read More

New Offer: Remote-Security Checks

April 8, 2020

Check the effectiveness of your remote security capabilities – together, let’s have a look at all the aspects of an effective cyber defense, from employee awareness to the technical entry points into your company. Especially in these times of home office, the availability and protection of… Read More

Christian Kudera interviewed by Kronen-Zeitung

April 7, 2020

As a follow up to the recently published technical statement of SBA Research about the Stopp Corona-App (press release), Christian Kudera (Security Analyst and Researcher at SBA Research) was interviewed by krone.at. In the Interview the most important features… Read More

Stop Corona App Christian Kudera Krone Interview

SBA Research joined the Disaster Competence Network Austria

April 7, 2020

The Disaster Competence Network Austria (DCNA) is a non profit association that aims to transfer scientific insights into practice in the area of security and disaster research. Within this network, several expert groups are formed… Read More

HydRand: Efficient Continuous Distributed Randomness Paper accepted at IEEE S&P 2020 Conference

April 3, 2020

Philipp Schindler, Aljosha Judmayer, Nicholas Stifter and Edgar Weippl get HydRand: Efficient Continuous Distributed Randomness paper accepted at the IEEE S&P 2020 conference. Watch introduction video Paper AbstractA reliable source of randomness is not only an essential building block in various cryptographic, security, and distributed systems protocols, but… Read More

HydRand: Efficient Continuous Distributed Randomness Paper accepted at IEEE S&P 2020 Conference

Dimitris Simos appointed as Guest Researcher with US NIST

April 1, 2020

As of March 13, 2020, Dimitris Simos holds a Guest Researcher appointment with US NIST and is affiliated with the Applied Computational Mathematics Division (ACMD) of the Information Technology Lab (ITL) [1]. In his capacity as an off-site collaborator, Dimitris will further strengthen the ties between SBA’s MATRIS group [2]… Read More

Stop Corona app reviewed by SBA Research security researchers

March 27, 2020

German version below SBA Research experts use reverse engineering to analyze the Android version of the Red Cross Stop Corona app for data security. Technical statement on the analysis. The Stop Corona app of the Austrian Red Cross has been raising questions since it went online some… Read More

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