SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Today Peter Kieseberg is giving a talk on „ IT-Compliance in der Praxis – Quo Vadis?” at the “GI Rechtsinformatik Treffen – LegalTech” at the Technical University of Munich.
Our paper ‘“I Have No Idea What I’m Doing” – On the Usability of Deploying HTTPS’ has been accepted for publication at the USENIX Security Symposium 2017, to take place in Vancouver this August. 85 out of 522 submissions (acceptance rate 16%) have been accepted. Kudos to Katharina and Willi!… Read More
On May 11, Edgar Weippl talks about research challenges and research methods in applied information security at the Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2017) in Brighton, UK. Read More
CERT.at veranstaltet einmal pro Monat, jeden zweiten Mittwoch im Monat, einen “IT-Security Stammtisch” (Vortrag und anschliessendes Networken bei Speis und Trank im alten AKH). Im Mai haben wir Dr. Martin Schmiedecker (SBA) als Vortragenden gewinnen können. Titel: Moderne Incident Response Datum: 10.5.2017, 18:30 Ort: im Seminarraum des ZID, 1.Stock, Neues… Read More
Edgar Weippl presents insights on software security research at a workshop held today in Feldkirch, organized by Bachmann electronic GmbH. More information here… Read More
Katharina Krombholz will present today at the UXCamp+ Vienna on usable security and privacy challenges in a connected world. You can find the full program here.
Members of SBA Research are at Ruhrsec, happening today and tomorrow in Bochum. You can find the program here and might follow @Fr333k for live updates. Read More
Last Sunday, students and faculty of SBA Research and TU Wien participated in the 2017 RuCTF Finals competition held in Yekaterinburg, Russia, as members of the team We_0wn_Y0u. Students are primarily recruited from our “(Advanced) Internet Security” lecture series which is taught together with the Secure Systems Lab of TU… Read More
We are proud to announce that we joined the Linux Foundation Europe, further strengthening our role within the international open-source community. With this step, we are reinforcing our commitment to advancing security and resilience in digital infrastructures. ... ∞
David Schmidt, PhD student at CD-Lab AsTra, Sebastian Schrittwieser, key researcher at SBA Research and head of the CD-Lab, and Edgar Weippl, scientific director at SBA Research and full professor for security & privacy at the University of Vienna, received the Distinguished Paper Award at ACM CCS 2025 (A*-rated) for their work Leaky Apps: Large-scale Analysis of Secrets Distributed in Android and iOS Apps. ... ∞