SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
„Man muss sich gut überlegen, welche Daten wo gespeichert werden. Ich habe manche Daten unverschlüsselt in der Cloud, andere verschlüsselt und wieder andere überhaupt nicht. Hier gilt es, Datenschutz und Verfügbarkeit gegeneinander abzuwägen“, so Edgar Weippl (futurezone.at)… Read More
Christoph Falta spricht heute im Rahmen der Conect Informunity zum Thema “Security & Riskmanagement” über “APTs in der Praxis – Gefahren, Maßnahmen und Restrisiko”. 10. Oktober 2014 09.00 – 14.00 Uhr IBM Österreich weitere Infos
Heute findet der Security Day – Young Researchers’ Day trifft Kryptostammtisch statt, der im Rahmen des ACM SIGSAC Chapters Vienna und des OCG-Arbeitskreises IT-Sicherheit organisiert wird. Der Security Day findet gemeinsam mit dem Kryptostammtisch des IAIK TU Graz statt und bietet Vorträge von Young und Senior Researchers im Bereich IT… Read More
SBA Research participates with three topics at the European Researchers’ Night: Security on the Internet: Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagramm & Co. Hollywood Hacking: A Reality Check Digital Forensics – CSI in IT… Read More
What is Shellshock? On 24/09/2014, a security vulnerability was published as CVE-2014-6271 (also Shellshock or Bashbleed). The vulnerability is in the command line software bash which is used in practically all Linux systems as the default shell. Due to an error when parsing environment variables, it is possible to execute… Read More
Adrians ACSAC prepublication is picked up by the Washington Post: “There are rare occurrences when all these indicators are present without an IMSI catcher,” Dabrowski said. “But it’s a situation where you might say, ‘Let’s now be careful and not talk about sensitive things on the phone.’ It’s not… Read More
ARES 2014 was held from 8 – 12 September 2014 in Fribourg, Switzerland. Thanks to 133 participants from 30 countries for participating! ARES 2014 Opening Welcome Reception Keynote Bart Preneel Tiny Train through Fribourg ARES 2014 participants… Read More
Die Bedeutung von E-Government als Schnittstelle zwischen öffentlichen Einrichtungen und BürgerInnen im erweiterten Sinn ist bereits heute eine wichtige. Ziel der vorliegenden Studie ist, Sicherheit von E-Government-Anwendungen, Projekten und Einrichtungen durch die Definition eines entsprechenden Standards sowie eines potentiellen Zertifizierungsprozesses in den Mittelpunkt zu rücken und überprüfbar zu machen. Partner:… 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). ∞