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Recent News:

Katharina Krombholz defended her PhD

Better late than never: late last year already, Katharina defended her PhD thesis and graduated with distinction. Her thesis is substantial for the field of usable security and privacy. It spans user-centric research on a variety of topics such as smartphone authentication, Bitcoin and its user expectations, and TLS deployments. Read More

ERCIM News No.108

The ERCIM News No. 108 has just been published at with a special theme “Machine Learning” (The issue is available in PDF here). SBA Research contributed the article “Forensics using Internal Database Structures” by Peter Kieseberg, Edgar Weippl, and Sebastian Schrittwieser.

Adrian Dabrowski im Standard-Interview

“Wir untersuchen das ganz genau”, betont Dabrowski, der zu den führenden IT-Sicherheitsexperten Österreichs zählt. – derstandard.at/2000050143907/Russische-Hacker-nutzten-laut-FBI-auch-Rechner-in-Wien (mehr)

Talk at 33C3

Numerous members of SBA are at the CCC Congress in Hamburg. 33C3 takes place from December 27 – 30, 2017 in Hamburg, Germany and is the biggest non-commercial hacker conference worldwide with more than 11.000 people attending ever year. Martin Schmiedecker gives a talk on “Everything you always wanted to… Read More

Frohe Weihnachten!

SBA Research wünscht Ihnen im Namen aller Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter frohe Weihnachten, einen guten Rutsch ins Jahr 2017 und erholsame Feiertage! Events Overview 2017: In unserer Event-Roadmap 2017 finden Sie auf einen Blick alle SBA Konferenzen, Kurse und weitere Event-Termine. Die Roadmap wird laufend ergänzt. Read More

Paper accepted @ ICST 2017

The paper “Coveringcerts: Combinatorial Methods for X.509 Certificate Testing” by Kristoffer Kleine and Dimitris Simos has been accepted for publication in the 10th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2017). ICST is one of the leading conferences for software testing and validation. The results of this… Read More

SBA @ MPM4CPS

This week Peter Kieseberg from SBA Research joined a meeting of the MPM4CPS COST-action in Malaga. The MPM4CPS action deals with multi-paradigm modelling in the area of cyber-physical systems and SBA will bring a more security-related perspective to the consortium, especially since cyber-physical systems have been identified as… Read More