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SBA Research is a research center for Information Security
funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.

Recent News:

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

SBA Research @ WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2018!

We are happy to announce that SBA Research is hosting the security track „Private and Secure Development“ of WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2018, the biggest development conference in Europe (Twitter). We are supporting WeAreDevelopers with our information security and secure development experience. Read More

Securing the Internet, One HTTP 200 OK at a Time

HTTPS is the most commonly used cryptographic protocol on the Internet. It protects communication content and provides endpoint authenticity at scale. However, deploying HTTPS in a truly secure fashion can be a challenging task even for experienced admins. To explore why this is the case and how these challenges can… Read More

RIPE article on IPv6 addressing

Johanna Ullrich has contributed a post on IPv6 Address Security and Privacy to RIPE Labs. For the full article please see here.

Unique Fingerprint for each Computer

Sebastian Schrittwieser (SBA Research) works on faster identification of cyber attacks by making the hacking process more obvious. Schrittwieser and his team are designing highly complex program codes in order to prevent damage. Full article

Promotio sub auspiciis Praesidentis for Dr. Johanna Ullrich

Johanna Ullrich finally got her PhD officially awarded sub auspiciis Praesidentis in presence of the Austrian president Dr. Alexander Van der Bellen. This type of promotion is the highest honor for achievement, and the laureates receive a gold ring from the president. The tradition dates back to the 17th… Read More

500 attendees joined Blockchain Summit at WU

500 participants discussed and prepared pilot projects at several workshops on Tuesday, December 5. SBA Research is among the cooperation partners of WU´s newly founded Research Department of Crypto Economy that is in charge of accompanying the pilot projects. ©Blockchain Austria… Read More