SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Our paper on software obfuscation has been published with ACM Computing Survey (CSUR). You can find the paper in the ACM digital library here. Protecting Software through Obfuscation: Can It Keep Pace with Progress in Code Analysis? Sebastian Schrittwieser, Stefan Katzenbeisser, Johannes Kinder, Georg Merzdovnik, Edgar Weippl Software… Read More
Edgar Weippl and Katharina Krombholz are currently attending GI Sicherheit 2016 in Bonn, Germany. On Thursday, April 7, Katharina will present the findings from our comprehensive Bitcoin User Study, that were published in a recent paper at Financial Crypto, to a German audience of researchers and practitioners. The detailed program… Read More
Andreas Tomek gave a talk with the title “Von klassischer Malware zu Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) – Bedrohungen und Lösungsansätze” at the 11. heise Security Tour today in Vienna. More Information can be found here.
The paper “’Weight Distribution of the Syndrome of Linear Codes and Connections to Combinatorial Designs” by Christoph Pacher (AIT), Philipp Grabenweger (AIT) and Dimitris Simos (SBA Research) has been accepted for publication in the 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) which takes place from July, 10th-15th, 2016 in… Read More
Dimitris Simos is invited to Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz on 4 April 2016 to give a colloquium talk at the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC) in Hagenberg. Colloquium announcement see here. Title: Information Security through Combinatorial Designs and Symbolic Computation: Recent Results and Challenges Ahead Abstract: In last 50 years,… Read More
Nimbusec GmbH is introduced in a TV spot in the ORF series “oö Exportchampions”. In this series the Export Center OÖ is introducing 52 Austrian “export companies”. Nimbusec GmbH is part of the SBA Research Accelerator Program. The full TV spot can be found here.
These days numerous researchers of SBA Research attend the first IEEE Euro S&P in Saarbrücken. The keynote will be held by Adi Shamir, you can find the full program online. Robert Annessi will present our paper on Tor path simulations, you can find a preprint of the paper… Read More
Adrian Dabrowski gives a talk about Hollywood Hacking at the Troopers16 in Heidelberg. Abstract: Why did it take 15 Years to finally being able to transfer a Winword file between Mac and PC without troubles, but one can write a 0-day virus for an alien computer system invading the earth… Read More
Today Adrian Dabrowski gives his talk “Towards Carrier Based IMSI Catcher Detection” at the TelcoSecDay 2016. Abstract: In this presentation we discuss multiple detection capabilities of IMSI Catchers (aka Stingray) from the network operator’s point of view. We draw a comprehensive picture on current threats against mobile… Read More