SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
has been extended to March 29, 2016! Find the Call for Papers here. The ARES Conference will be held in Salzburg, Austria from August 31 – September 2, 2016.
Markus Klemen @ e-day 2016 SBA Research contributed two talks to this years’ e-day of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce. Markus Klemen talked about loyalty and motivation of employees with regard to ethical issues and psychological considerations. Peter Kieseberg described current social engineering tricks and attack vectors. Peter… Read More
Yesterday, a delegation of SBA Research visited the CSIRT team at Masaryk University and discussed project ideas and possibilities for collaboration. Their impressive cyberranch shown below is part of the KYPO project, and used for teaching and CTFs. Read More
Our paper Pin It! Improving Android Network Security At Runtime (by Damjan Buhov, Markus Huber, Georg Merzdovnik and Edgar Weippl) has been accepted at the A-rated conference IFIP Networking 2016. Read More
We had a great time at Financial Crypto and Ross Anderson’s group maintains a nice blog that also covered the conference. Read the comments to our paper.
Today a new attack against TLS was published, DROWN. In essence, it allows attackers to decrypt strong TLS connections using TLS 1.2 and other versions, if the deprecated protocol SSLv2 is supported by the server. Previous work by SBA Research has shown that this is… Read More
The kick-off meeting of the Management Committee (MC) for the new COST Action CA15217 “Resilient communication services protecting end-user applications from disaster-based failures (RECODIS)” is taking place on March 1, 2016 in the COST Association premises in Brussels, Belgium. Austria is among the 22 European countries that have already signed… Read More
SBA Research will be present at the Software Engineering (SE) conference this week in Vienna. Martin Schmiedecker will talk today about SBA Research and on the panel on technology transfer, hosted at SE FIT. You can find the detailed program of SE’2016 here. Read More