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Nicholas Stifter presents paper at RAID 2018

September 11, 2018

Yesterday, Nicholas Stifter presented their paper: Johanna Ullrich, Nicholas Stifter, Aljosha Judmayer, Adrian Dabrowski and Edgar Weippl, “Proof-of-Blackouts? How Proof-of-Work Cryptocurrencies Could Affect Power Grids” at RAID 2018 in Heraklion, Crete The paper analyzes the potential impact cryptocurrency mining and its large power consumption could have on the reliable operation… Read More

Edgar’s Keynote at SIN’18 on Distributed Ledger Technology, Blockchain & Crypto Currencies

September 10, 2018

Photo by Atilla Elçi The morning session started with Edgar’s Opening Keynote on Distributed Ledger Technology, Blockchain & Crypto Currencies. The topic is not only a hype area but also well-suited for graduate students to start with focused research. In the presentation Edgar showed three aspects that are… Read More

Security Rockstars Wettbewerb geht in die dritte Runde

September 10, 2018

KSÖ, SBA Research und KPMG suchen die besten Ideen rund um Security Zum Artikel

Aljosha Judmayer to present full paper at CBT 2018

September 5, 2018

Aljosha Judmayer will be presenting his full paper at CBT 2018 in Barcelona: Aljosha Judmayer, Nicholas Stifter, Philipp Schindler and Edgar Weippl. “Enforcing rule changes through offensive forking- and consensus techniques” Full paper Moreover Alexei Zamyatin had his poster accepted at the CBT´18 workshop, held as part as… Read More

ARES 2018 (Hamburg) breaks all previous records

September 4, 2018

With a total of 308 participants from over 50 countries this year´s ARES & CD-MAKE broke all previous records. An acceptance rate of 22,3% along with 18 workshops, 6 of them held within the EU Projects Symposium, and 14 keynote speakers reflect the obtained success and impact. In proper ARES… Read More

PhD defense: Adrian Dabrowski

September 4, 2018

Adrian Dabrowski successfully defended his PhD thesis “Security and Privacy in Large-scale Infrastructure”. Thorsten Holz and Stefanie Rinderle-Ma were the external evaluators, Matteo Maffei the committee chair and Edgar Weippl the supervisor. Congratulations!… Read More

Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction, Holzinger, Kieseberg, Tjoa, Weippl (eds.)

August 28, 2018

Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction (Springer LNCS) is available. Read More

One step ahead of hackers…

August 27, 2018

The computer scientists Edgar Weippl and his team calculate threat scenarios for critical infrastructure and industrial plants. The findings are used to improve protection. Read more in the DiePresse. Die Presse – printed edtion… Read More

Edgar Weippl at 2018 Alpbach Technology Symposium: EU NIS directive and NIS act – what now?

August 24, 2018

Edgar Weippl gave a presentation on Security Research in the context of NIS at Alpbach Technology Symposium’s breakout session ‘EU NIS directive and NIS act – what now?‘… Read More

SBA Security Advisory – phpWhois – PHP Code Injection (CVE-2015-5243)

August 2, 2018

phpWhois and some of its forks in versions before 5.1.0 are prone to a code injection vulnerability due to insufficient sanitization of returned WHOIS data. This allows attackers controlling the WHOIS information of a requested domain to execute arbitrary PHP code in the context of the application. We recommend to update phpWhois to version jsmitty12: 5.1.0 or later. For further details, see the full security advisory. Read More

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