SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Heute findet bereits zum zwölften Mal der internationale Safer Internet Day statt. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf einem „besseren Internet für Kinder und Jugendliche“, ganz nach dem Motto: „Let’s create a better internet together!“ Katharina Krombholz von SBA Research hat mit zwei Schulklassen Themen rund um “Privatsphäre, Verschlüsselung und co. Read More
Edgar Weippl organized a panel discussion (Günther Pernul, Stefan Furnell, and Bryan Ford) on Mon Feb 9, 2015 at the ICISSP conference. On Tuesday Edgar gave an invited talk on Research Challenges in Applied and Empirical Information Security Research (as an adhoc substitute for a… Read More
SBA Research invited Key Researchers and members of the Scientific Board to join us for the ball of the Vienna University of Technology on January 29, 2015 at Hofburg. Stefan Katzenbeisser, Volkmar Lotz, Davide Balzarotti, Engin Kirda and Christopher Kruegel spent this wonderful evening with us. Read More
We are taking part in Syssec's 10Kstudents initiative: "The goal of the 10KStudents challenge is to improve cyber security by teaching Ten Thousand University Students the basic concepts of software vulnerabilities and secure programming. " Read More
Stefan Katzenbeisser, Key Researcher bei SBA Research, spricht über die Vorratsdatenspeicherung als ungeeignetes Mittel zur Prävention von Terroranschlägen. 3SAT-TV nano-Beitrag
Die Mitarbeiter und Mitarbeiterinnen von SBA Research legten zusammen, um für unbegleitete jugendliche Flüchtlinge, die im Laura Gatner Haus der Diakonie leben, Winterjacken und Winterschuhe für die kalte Jahreszeit besorgen zu können. Im Rahmen der Weihnachtsfeier des Laura Gatner Hauses wurde der Scheck im Wert von 3710 € zusammen mit… Read More
“Weitaus ernsthafter ist ein Projekt der Wiener IT-Sicherheitsexperten Katharina Krombholz und Adrian Dabrowski. Sie wollen mit dem “P3F”-Projekt das Problem der “analogen Lücke” lösen. … Krombholz und Dabrowski haben schon Kontakte zu großen IT-Konzernen aufgenommen und ihr Projekt beispielsweise bei Facebook vorgestellt.” derStandard.at
Dimitris Simos, Bernhard Garn of the research team and Severin Winkler, Peter Aufner, Andreas Bernauer of the security testing team of SBA Research found a RXSS vulnerability in W3C online tidy services using combinatorial testing methodologies and demonstrated its applicability to web application security testing. These novel research methods have… Read More
Last week, our annual event for partners and friends of SBA Research, IMPACT, brought together experts, practitioners, and decision-makers from research, industry, and the open-source community. The afternoon provided an opportunity to discuss the latest developments in security, AI, and innovation, celebrate our long-standing relationships, and mark 20 years of SBA Research’s contributions to cutting-edge cybersecurity and trustworthy digital innovation. ∞
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). ∞