SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Today starts the 9th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2014). ARES 2014 is organized by SBA Research in cooperation with the University of Fribourg and takes place from 8 – 12 September 2014 in Fribourg, Switzerland. Website… Read More
The Andrubis app is now available in Google Play Store. The work has been partly funded by uSmile and COMET. The work is part of Martina’s PhD research.
Today, SBA Research releases SSNOOB, a simple Java tool to create Social Snapshots of Facebook accounts, into the public domain. SNOOB serves three main purposes: Digital Forensics (Extract Facebook account data from forensic images via valid Facebook session cookies) Research (Extract Facebook account data for scientific studies ranging… Read More
Edgar Weippl gives a keynote on Advanced Persistent Threats & Social Engineering at the 11th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2014), wich takes place from 28 – 30 August 2014 in Vienna.
We are proud to announce, that our paper “IMSI-Catch Me If You Can: IMSI-Catcher-Catchers” has been accepted to the 2014 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC). In this paper, we identify and describe multiple methods for detecting artifacts in the mobile network produced by IMSI Catchers. IMSI Catchers are used… Read More
Dr. Artemios G. Voyiatzis, Associate Researcher, Industrial Systems Institute, “Athena” Research and Innovation Center in ICT, Greece gives a talk about “Security challenges in industrial systems”. Abstract Tuesday, June 26, 2014, 10.00 – 11.30 This event is hosted by the Vienna ACM SIGSAC Chapter. 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). ∞