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Matthias Eckhart received Critical Infrastructure Award

Matthias Eckhart, junior researcher at SBA Research, has received the Critical Infrastructure Award for his ongoing PhD thesis. This award recognizes his research contributions to the field of cyber-physical systems security. The Critical Infrastructure Award was awarded for the first time by the Austrian… Read More

CTF team We_0wn_Y0u at saarCTF

November 18, 2023, SBA Research participated in saarCTF with their CTF team We_0wn_Y0u. This CTF is organized annually by information security students and researchers from Saarland University, supported by the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. As one of the few… Read More

Gabriel Gegenhuber @GSMA FASG#27 Plenary

On the 7th of November, Gabriel Gegenhuber took the stage at the GSMA FASG#27 Plenary, showcasing his expertise in the dynamic field of mobile fraud and security. As an esteemed speaker, Gabriel presented an open-source framework for rapid distributed security testing and measurements, leveraging SIM tunneling technology. The… Read More

SBA @KIRAS Fachtagung

On October 24, 2023, the 13th KIRAS symposium took place, hosted by the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) and the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG). Anja Klauzer presented the project “Gesamtstaatliche Erfassung der Resilienz im Kontext komplexer Krisenszenarien“ (G-Star), as well as a respective poster. It… Read More

SBA @HaPoC

On the 20th of October, Caroline Lawitschka from the University of Vienna and Philip König of SBA Research, gave the talk titled “Empowering Intellectual Workers Through AI-Generated Content,” which was entirely composed by ChatGPT at the HaPoC 2023 in Warsaw, Poland. This provocative endeavor showcased the potential… Read More

SBA @ITSecx

On the 13th of October, Fabian Obermann presented the talk with the title “Lessons from the Past: Using Git History to Detect Software Aging and Code Weaknesses” at FH St. Pölten’s IT-Security Community Exchange (IT-SECX). This study, conducted in collaboration with Dennis Toth, Philip König and Alexander… Read More

Doctoral Thesis Defense of Bernhard Garn

On Monday, October 9, 2023, Bernhard successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled ‘Design Theory Methods and their Applications to the Science of Security’ in his defensio. The committee was chaired by Martina Lindorfer (TU Wien) and in addition consisted of Edgar Weippl (University of Vienna), Rachel… Read More

Sebastian Schrittwieser @PriSec

On the 9th of October, Sebastian Schrittwieser had the pleasure to give a talk with the topic “ChatGPT und Co.: Revolution in der Arbeitswelt oder der neue Security-Albtraum?” at this years PriSec. The strategy forum for decision-makers from information security and data protection. PriSec brings together the… Read More

Bernhard Garn @COST Action

Bernhard Garn from the DEFSYS team has joined the management committee of two COST Actions, where he will represent MATRIS/SBA and Austria: On the 17 of October the CA22164 – european Network on Extreme fiRe behaviOr (NERO) Action CA22164 – COST started and on the 26th of September the CA22168… Read More

SBA @IKT

On the 3rd of October the successful Young Researchers’ Day (YRD) at the IKT Security Conference 2023 was held at Design Center Linz. With over 3,000 participants, 80+ Talks, and Workshops, the IKT Conference was a resounding success. Young researchers seamlessly integrated into the main ICT program,… Read More