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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:

SBA Security Meetup I November Security Bytes & Bites
26.11.2024
Panorama24
28.11.2024
Linux Security for Embedded Systems Workshop
05.12.2024

Recent News:

Adrian Dabrowski @ MoST 2016

Adrian Dabrowski gives a talk about “Browser History Stealing with Captive Wi-Fi Portals” at the Mobile Security Technologies (MoST) 2016, held as part of the IEEE Computer Society Security and Privacy Workshops, in conjunction with the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in San José. Read More

ITEA2-action DIAMONDS received EUREKA-award

We are proud to announce that the ITEA2-action DIAMONDS where SBA Research participated through the MobseTip project received the prestigious EUREKA-award. For more information on relevant project aspects please contact Dimitris Simos.

SBA Research at IFIP Networking 2016

Damjan Buhov presents today our paper “Pin It! Improving Android Network Security At Runtime” (by Damjan Buhov, Markus Huber, Georg Merzdovnik, and Edgar Weippl) at the IFIP Networking 2016 Conference. IFIP Networking is a CORE A-ranked conference. Read More

Talk at Blackhat USA 2016 accepted

Aaron Zauner, one of our researchers, has gotten a talk accepted at Blackhat USA 2016. Together with Sean Devlin, Hanno Böck and Philipp Jovanovic they identified a nonce re-use attack in the TLS GCM modes that can be used to inject additional content in the worst case. Overall, they identified… Read More

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