SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
The paper “Swimming with Fishes and Sharks: Beneath the Surface of Queue-based Ethereum Mining Pools” by Alexei Zamyatin, K. Wolter, S. Werner, C.E.A. Mulligan, P.G. Harrison and W.J. Knottenbelt was accepted for publication at the 25th IEEE International Symposium on the Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication… Read More
Johanna Ullrich visited the 3. AG CYSIS Symposium in Frankfurt, Germany. CYSIS is initiated by Deutsche Bahn and TU Darmstadt to develop secure railway infrastructures. At the symposium, the results of the working groups “Resilient Architectures”, “Business Continuity Management”, “Security for Safety”, and “ETCS with Security” were presented.
The ERCIM News No. 110 has just been published with a special theme on “Blockchain Engineering“. SBA Research contributes two articles in this issue. The first article is by Aljosha Judmayer, Alexei Zamyatin, Nicholas Stifter and Edgar Weippl on “Bitcoin – Cryptocurrencies and Alternative Applications“. The second article… Read More
At the Autonomous Machines World Edgar Weippl chairs a Security Cafe Session, 2.5 hours discussion on security on autonomous production machines. Read More
Today at ‘International Conference on Algebraic Informatics’ [CAI], Dimitris Simos is chairing a session on Design Theory, where Ludwig Kampel is presenting a paper titled ‘Covering Arrays as Set Covers’ (Ludwig Kampel, Bernhard Garn, and Dimitris E. Simos). CAI brings together researchers from mathematics and computer science, with topics discussed… Read More
We are proud to host Daniel Gruss today (website, @lavados) to show us how to rowhammer! Rowhammer is an very interesting attack that can be used to flip bits in RAM, and can be used among other things to elevate privileges. Read More
The Josef Ressel Center for Unified Threat Intelligence on Targeted Attacks (TARGET) is being expanded in its third year. A new module is added, which is executed SBA Research, an external partner from Vienna, and the existing modules scope is extended. Georg Merzdovnik and Edgar Weippl work on security aspects… Read More
Markus Klemen gives the keynote speech “Employee Loyalty – a Feasible Goal?” at the (ISC)² Secure Summit DACH in Zürich today. Further details can be found here.
Artemios G. Voyiatzis is representing SBA Research at the Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings on Digital Forensics (DF) and Teaching/Learning (TL) of the EU-funded project “Strengthening European Network Centres of Excellence in Cybercrime” (SENTER). The meetings take place on June 26-27, 2017 in Esslingen, Germany.