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funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.

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SBA Research is hosting an ERCIM Postdoc Fellow

In the context of the ERCIM Research Exchange Programme, SBA Research is hosting between February 23 and March 1, 2017 Dr. Zeeshan Ali Khan. Zeeshan is an ERCIM Postdoc Fellow with the Department of Telematics of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) working under the… Read More

SBA Research at RECODIS meetings

Artemios G. Voyiatzis from SBA Research represents Austria in the Management Committee (MC) and the Working Group (WG) meetings of the COST Action RECODIS on February 13-14, 2017 in Wroclaw, Poland. The objective of the COST Action “Resilient Communication Services Protecting End-user Applications from Disaster-based Failures” (RECODIS) is to… Read More

Network-Based Secret Communication in Clouds: A Survey

Our journal article “Network-Based Secret Communication in Clouds: A Survey” from Johanna Ullrich, Tanja Zseby, Joachim Fabini and Edgar Weippl has been published in the high-impact journal IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. It is now available online. You can find a preprint here. Read More

Project TRUC started

Last week, project TRUC was officially started, with the first lectures happening at SBA. Focus of this FFG “Qualifizierungsnetz” will be to teach partner companies the state-of-the-art regarding cybersecurity, and defense-in-depth, to enable them towards developing secure software for e.g. Industrie 4.0 or cyber-physical systems. German abstract: Trusted Code (TRUC)… Read More

Martin Schmiedecker at HackPra, Bochum

Today, Martin Schmiedecker presents at the HackPra lecture at RUB, Bochum. He joins an impressive list of previous speakers, among others Mario Heiderich, Stefan Esser, Ange Albertini or Felix ‘FX’ Lindner. Title: Turning Incident Response to Eleven Abstract: We’ve all been there – this one course at… Read More

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.