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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.

Upcoming Events:

IEEE Euro S&P 2024
08.07.2024 - 12.07.2024
ARES 2024
30.07.2024 - 02.08.2024
Training: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) – Prüfungsvorbereitungskurs – Teil 1
30.09.2024 - 02.10.2024

Recent News:

Dimitris Simos @ HCSS 2016

Dimitris Simos gives a talk on May, 11th about “Combinatorial Coverage Analysis of Subsets of the TLS Cipher Suite Registry” joint work with Kristoffer Kleine (SBA Research), Rick Kuhn (NIST), Raghu Kacker (NIST). HCSS 2016 takes place from May 10th to May 12th in Annapolis,… Read More

Browser Fingerprinting: you are (de-facto) alone

Recently there were numerous papers on browser fingerprinting i.e. measuring the entropy of browser configurations to make them uniquely stand out among all others. Usually these methods run analysis on UserAgent strings, canvas fingerprinting, system fonts or the installed plugins. SBA Research has now setup its own fingerprinting website, which… Read More

SBA @ Linuxwochen 2016

Researchers from SBA Research are presenting these days at the Linuxwochen Wien 2016: Today at 3:30pm, Katharina Krombholz will present the findings of the user study on security and privacy in Bitcoin. On Saturday, 12am Martin Schmiedecker will talk about digital forensics on Linux and recently published tools that… Read More

SBA Research at Ruhrsec

Today and tomorrow, researchers from SBA are attending Ruhrsec which is a new & non-profit security conference in Bochum. Well-known presenters from the community include Mario Heiderich, Sebastian Schinzel, Daniel Gruss from IAIK Graz, Marion Marschalek and a keynote from Thorsten Holz. © RuhrSec… Read More

RACVIAC CyberSecurity

Edgar Weippl gives a presentation on cybersecurity education and training at the RACVIAC CyberSecurity meeting in Zagreb. Read More

Two papers at DFRWS’16 accepted

Two papers have been accepted at the DFRWS USA ’16 conference on digital forensics, to be held from August 7th to 10th, 2016 in Seattle, WA: Time is on my side: Steganography in filesystem metadata PeekaTorrent: Leveraging P2P Hash Values for Digital Forensics You can find pre-prints of… Read More

Paper accepted @ DBSec16

The paper “Whom You Gonna Trust? A Longitudinal Study on TLS Notary Services” by Georg Merzdovnik, Klaus Falb, Martin Schmiedecker, Artemios Voyiatzis and Edgar Weippl has been accepted for publication in the 30th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2016)… Read More

Cryptocurrencies Tutorial at WWW 2016

Aljosha Judmayr’s Tutorial on Cryptocurrencies at WWW 2016 was very well received. WWW’s keynote speakers Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Mary Ellen Zurko attended and you can read Mary Ellen’s tweets (tweet (Tweet, more ) Other positive comments by Tactika and Surya Kallumadi. Read More

Katharina Krombholz @ “Lange Nacht der Forschung” kick-off event

Katharina Krombholz was invited to participate in the kick-off event and press conference of “Lange Nacht der Forschung” together with Gerald Klug (technology minister), Hannes Androsch (Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development) and Clara Eibensteiner (bmvit-research trainee). In front of the ‘Research-Tram”: Gerald Klug, Clara Eibensteiner,… Read More