SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
While performing traffic analysis on the current development version of Orbot, the official Android for Tor app, Manuel Leithner (Junior Researcher, SBA Research gGmbH) discovered that certain types of traffic (including VPN, GPS and videos) were not tunnelled through Tor. He subsequently developed a patch that enables full and… Read More
Our manuscript “Friend-in-the-middle Attacks: Exploiting Social Networking Sites for Spam” has been accepted for the upcoming special issue on Security and Privacy in Social Networks in the IEEE Journal of Internet Computing in May/Jun 2011. Preprint is available here. In this article we have introduced… Read More
We kindly ask you to participate in our information security knowledge management survey. The survey is conducted by publicly-funded research institutions SBA Research (AT), Newcastle University (UK), and Vienna University of Technology (AT). We conduct the survey to explore potential ways of enabling companies and professionals to share information security… Read More
The SBA FIT-IT proposal “INFORM” (Internet Forensic Framework) has been awarded the 2nd place in the competition for the best proposal among all proposals for “Trust in IT-Systems” in 2009. The goal of “INFORM” is to study current challenges in computer forensics and to produce tools that enricht the toolset… Read More
Guest lecture by Prof. Rinderle-Ma on “Evolution von organisatorischen Strukturen und deren Effekte in prozessorientierten Informationssystemen” (Feb 2, 10 am, SBA)… Read More
From January to March 2010, Stefan Fenz will work as a visiting scholar at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research at Stanford University. He will develop and implement novel methods for the ontology-based generation of Bayesian networks.
A group of dedicated young researchers presented their work at the 22st ICT Security Conference on 16 and 17 September 2026, which was organized by the Austrian Armed Forces. ∞
A new paper, “Automated Reasoning for Indistinguishability in the CCSA,” co-authored by Laura Kovács, key researcher at SBA Research and full professor at the Faculty of Informatics of the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), and Matteo Maffei, key researcher at SBA Research and Professor at TU Wien, has been accepted for presentation at the 33rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS). ∞
The 21th International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security (ARES 2026) took center stage in Linköping, Sweden, from August 24 - 27, 2026, offering a platform for experts and enthusiasts to explore the latest developments in the field. The conference was jointly organised by Linköpings universitet (LiU) and SBA Research. ∞