SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
3 years of collaboration within the IoT4CPS project is coming to an end: 16 consortium partners (including SBA Research) nearly 100 project team members involved 45+ deliverables achieved (+30 public documents) 7 white papers written, 6 posters illustrated… Read More
SBA Research and the Austrian Institute of Technology hosted the workshop “Cyber Resilience of Critical Infrastructures” during the CODE annual conference 2020 with around 60 participants. Resilience was specifically discussed in the context of hyperconnected software systems and what challenges and opportunities we face… Read More
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The FFG project SESC – Secure Execution of Smart Contracts – focused on research addressing the emerging requirements for supporting the whole lifecycle of smart contract infrastructures that are based on distributed ledger technology. At the time this project started in 2017, many of the characteristics and security guarantees of blockchain technologies… Read More
The bilateral KIRAS project SmartIdentification – Confident Identification by using Mobile Remote Devices – focused on the use of existing data on smartphones to analyse trends in human trafficking routes and to identify individuals, especially unaccompanied minors. Starting in 2017, in the aftermath of the European migrant crisis 2015/2016,… Read More
The 6th Euro S&P edition will be hosted by SBA Research, TU Wien and the University of Vienna on September 7-11, 2021 at the University Center Althanstraße. Since 1980, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for presenting developments in computer security and electronic privacy,… Read More
The ARES 2020 Conference, hosted by SBA Research, is currently taking place as all-digital conference. We are very happy to presenting a diverse program to more than 300 participants from over 43 countries, including: 27 full papers (acceptance rate: 21.26%) and 6 short papers 82 workshop… Read More
While taking a university course on security, Philipp Danzinger discovered two critical related vulnerabilities in KeePassRPC, an addon for the popular password manager KeePass. Both vulnerabilities allow a malicious web site to read and leak (unlocked) KeePass databases, while being very hard or impossible to detect, provided the KeePassRPC addon is… Read More
In the online attack / defense CTF competition ENOWARS4, We_0wn_Y0u got the 2nd place out of 154 teams! A big thanks to ENOFLAG and TU Berlin for hosting the event! Congratulations to all members of… Read More
SBA Research, the Vienna Competence Center for Information Security, will be funded for another four years within the framework of COMET – Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies Report of the FFG On 16 June 2020, the mid-term evaluation of SBA-K1, the COMET flagship research program of SBA Research, took… Read More
Professor Violet Syrotiuk from Arizona State University visited the MATRIS Research Group for two days of intensive research discussions and exchange from October 24-25, 2024. Prof. Syrotiuk is a distinguished researcher in mathematical system dynamics modeling, wireless networks, and algorithm development. ... ∞
The best digitalization projects from business and administration were honoured at the eAward 2024 business prize ceremony and we are proud to announce that Shecurity - Hackerinnen Training won the eAward 2024 in the category "Education and Social"! ... ∞