SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Senior researcher Johanna Ullrich has been interviewed by Austrian Broadcasting (ORF). In the TV show Eco, she explained potential security and privacy pitfalls of smart meters that are mandated by EU legislation. The show can be watched in ORF’s TVthek within the next 7 days. Link: https://tvthek.orf.at/profile/Eco/11523082/Eco/14009521
Bernhard Garn and Dimitris Simos visit the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) [NIST] during April 4-8, 2019. The purpose of the visit is to jointly host with NIST researchers (Raghu Kacker, Rick Kuhn) the 3rd SBA/NIST workshop on combinatorial security testing [CST], and to… Read More
Johanna Ullrich has been interviewed by demographieberatung.at on diversity in the field of information technology. The interview is part of the current newsletter, and can also be found here: Link: https://www.demografieberatung.at/uncategorized/das-alter-entscheidet-nicht-darueber-ob-jemand-gut-in-informatik-ist/… Read More
Do you have a Yubikey or a cryptocurrency hardware wallet and want to play an active part in a research project from SBA Research to improve current methods for authenticity checks? Then please fill out our online survey (https://de.surveymonkey.com/r/YPH2FSX) and take part in a… Read More
Edgar Weippl introduced ABC AREA 1 at this year´s Anon Blockchain Summit Austria. Also Nicolas Stifter presented Echoes of the Past: Recovering Blockchain Metrics From Merged Mining (Nicholas Stifter, Philipp Schindler, Aljosha Judmayer, Alexei Zamyatin, Andreas Kern, Edgar Weippl). Full paperBlockchain Summit Austria 2019… Read More
Bernhard Garn and Dimitris Simos from SBA’s MaTRIS research group (https://matris.sba-research.org/) join the 6th Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security (HotSoS) (https://cps-vo.org/group/hotsos), April 2-3 in Nashville, Tennessee. Bernhard and Dimitris also present their paper ‘Browser Fingerprinting using Combinatorial Sequence Testing’ (Bernhard Garn (SBA… Read More
Edgar Weippl gives a talk at the Workshop: Autonomous and Remotely Operated Systems: Benefits and Challenges to Nuclear Security hosted by WINS (World Insitute for Nuclear Security) on April 3, 2019. More information… Read More
Wilfried Mayer presenting “Measuring Cookies and Web Privacy in a Post-GDPR World” (Adrian Dabrowski, Georg Merzdovnik, Johanna Ullrich, Gerald Sendera, Edgar Weippl) at the Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM) 2019 in Puerto Varas,… Read More
Bernhard successfully defended his Master Thesis “Algebraic Methods for Experimental Design Theory” advised by Dimitris E. Simos at the Faculty of Mathematics and Geoinformation of TU Vienna. Bernhard gave an excellent presentation.
Last weekend SBA hosted the CTF Team “We_0wn_Y0u” (https://w0y.at) for another round of iCTF (International Capture the Flag), organized by UCSB. After a bumpy start, they were able to secure the 2nd place in the competition. Congratulations also to Bushwhackers and [SPbCTF] Kappa, for scoring 1st… Read More
SBA Research was delighted to welcome FFG Managing Director Karin Tausz and Head of Division Structural Programmes Silvia Laimgruber to the SBA-K1 NGC COMET Center in Vienna. ... ∞
Our colleague Nicholas Stifter, researcher and security analyst at SBA Research, presented his conference paper titled Reuse of Public Keys Across UTXO and Account-Based Cryptocurrencies at the Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2026 in St. Kitts, USA. ... ∞
Tanja Sarcevic, Daryna Olyinyk, and Yelyzaveta Klysa, all MLDM research group members, and Sabina Khazari participated in the European Cybersecurity & AI Hackathon Championship organized by CISPA, one of Europe’s leading research centers in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. Congratulations to them, they won 2nd place and qualified themselves to the grand finale that will be held in St. Ingbert, Germany, in June 2026. ... ∞