SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Today is the first day of the TRUST 2013 Conference, which is hosted by the Imperial College London and supported by SBA Research. The TRUST 2013 Conference takes place from 17-19 June 2013 in London, UK. Website
Two positions are currently open at TU Darmstadt: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter “Sichere Kritische Infrastrukturen” and Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter “Privacy By Design” (more…). If you are interested you can either contact Edgar Weippl at SBA or Stefan Katzenbeisser directly. Joint supervision (TU Wien and TU Darmstadt) of the PhD thesis is possible.
Special Issue: ARES 2012 7th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security; Information Security Technical Report, Elsevier, Volume 17, Issue 4, Pages 129-252 (May 2013), edited by Shujun Li and Edgar Weippl is online.
Katharina Krombholz und Adrian Dabrowski setzen die Tradition der Zusammenarbeit mit dem National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokio fort. Sebastian Schrittwieser besuchte 2011 das Institut im Herzen Tokios, Martina Lindorfer war Anfang 2013 dort und Edgar Weippl hielt im Februar 2013 eine Gastvortragsreihe. Katharina Krombholz ist von März 2013… Read More
We were at IEEE S&P last week. Sebastian presented his paper “Ethics in Security Research: Which lines should not be crossed?” at the Cyber-security Research Ethics Dialog & Strategy Workshop (CREDS 2013) and Martin presented “Fast and Reliable Browser Identification with JavaScript Engine Fingerprinting” at Web 2.0 Security &… Read More
Im Rahmen der 3. KIRAS Fachtagung präsentiert Heidi Hobel heute am 22.5.2013 im Austria Trend Hotel Park Royal Palace Vienna ein Poster zum Projekt „Malware in Silicon – Studie zu Schadroutinen in Hardware-Komponenten“. Im Rahmen dieser Studie wurde eine Analyse der heutigen Hardware-Produktionsprozesse durchgeführt sowie mögliche Bedrohungsmodelle und Gegenmaßnahmen… Read More
Im Rahmen der Veranstaltung “Wirtschaftsimpulse durch Forschung” sprechen Christian Platzer, Peter Frühwirt und Edgar Weippl über Sicherheitsaspekte bei Big Data und Cloud-Computing (Details…)
Sebastian Schrittwieser presented our paper on malware obfuscation through covert computation at AsiaCCS 2013 in Hangzhou, China. Sebastian Schrittwieser and Stefan Katzenbeisser and Peter Kieseberg and Markus Huber and Manuel Leithner and Martin Mulazzani and Edgar R. Weippl, “Covert Computation – Hiding Code in Code for Obfuscation Purposes,” in Proceedings… Read More
SBA Research was instrumental in the founding of the (ISC)² Austrian Chapter which will be used as an exchange and networking platform for Austrian IT security experts. (press release) (website (ISC)2 Austria Chapter) The foundation of the (ISC)2 Austria Chapters in the media:… 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). ∞