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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:

Security Considerations in ICOs

Edgar Weippl presents the technical perspective of security in ICOs at IRIS 2018 in Salzburg on Stefan Eder’s panel (E-Commerce – Währungen & Token Panel)… Read More

SBA supports ABC – Austrian Blockchain Center

true to our vision statement, being the crystallization point of security research in Austria, we support the proposal for a new K1 research center. SBA Research (Edgar Weippl) coordinates jointly with the University of Vienna (Stefanie Rinderle-Ma) the fundamental research activities in Area 2 “Cryptography, Technology & Security”. (ABC,… Read More

SBA @ Cyber Security Cluster Austria

National and international companies presented their cyber security related portfolios and discussed potential safety-solutions for energy infrastructure and smart cities. Among 21 other exhibitors, SBA Research introduced current projects and research. Quelle: APA ots. Read more: Cyber Security Cluster Austria präsentiert Sicherheitslösungen Cyber Security Cluster… Read More

IoT4CPS Public Kick-off

The public kick-off of the Austrian flagship project IoT4CPS took place at TU Vienna on February 1, 2018. After some welcome notes from Johannes Fröhlich (Vice Rector, TU Vienna), Helmut Leopold (Head of Center for Digital Safety and Security, AIT) and Andreas Eckel (Team Lead Grants, TTTech) we looked into… Read More

FIT 2018 – Security

Today we presented how exiting it can be to study information security. Katharina Pfeffer and Edgar Weippl gave an introduction to cryptography and showed how hackers are portrayed in movies in contrast to how they really work. FIT (Frauen in die Technik) is an initiative to encourage female high… Read More

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