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funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.

Recent News:

Johanna Ullrich at DBT#1 “IT-Security”

Johanna Ullrich joined DBT´s first event of the year dealing with IT-Security. Source: APA Fotoservice https://www.apa-fotoservice.at/galerie/9978/ In conversation with other experts she made interconnection of physical and automation systems as well possible consequences a subject of discussion. Read full article here Press: DiePresse… Read More

Future of Online Anonymity: FWF Project accepted

Wilfried Mayer and Edgar Weippl will work on our newly accepted FWF project “FuOnA: Future of Online Anonymity” This project aims to (i) understand the foundations of online anonymity, (ii) study the proposed technical mechanisms in detail, and (iii) further extend the schemes which are able to work at scale… Read More

SBA at USENIX Security & Usenix Magazine

‘Securing the Internet, One HTTP 200 OK at a Time’ (Login, Usenix Magazine Winter 2017, Vol. 42, No. 4) is a summary of our recent Usenix Security paper ‘“I Have No Idea What I’m Doing” – On the Usability of Deploying HTTPS‘, and you’ll be soon able to… Read More

Cybercrime Busters: About CERTs and the cybercriminals of Vienna

At this event, organized by the OCG Forum Privacy and the OCG-working group IT-security, the project consortium presents three significant results of the KIRAS project CERT-Komm II. This project, for the federal chancellery of Austria, consists of SBA Research as the consortium leader and the following project partners: University of Vienna,… Read More

SBA Research among partners of Austrian lead project IoT4CPS

IoT4CPS will develop guidelines, methods and tools to enable safe and secure IoT-based applications for automated driving and for smart production. The project will address safety and security aspects in a holistic approach both along the specific value chains and the product life cycles.   Click here… Read More

Botnets and Electrical Grids

Heise picked up on our recent ACSAC Paper. DerStandard.at also reads Heise. Gamestar.de and Ad-hoc-news.de also published articles. Summary on futurezone.at. The paper “Grid Shock: Coordinated Load-Change Attacks on Power Grids” by Adrian Dabrowski, Johanna Ullrich, and Edgar Weippl was recently presented at the 2017 Annual Computer… Read More

Empirical Research for Software Security

Our new book on empirical research for software security is available. Empirical Research for Software Security: Foundations and Experience, Lotfi ben Othmane, Martin Gilje Jaatun, Edgar Weippl (eds), CRC Press, ISBN 9781498776417. Read More