SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
“Oft sind es erstaunlich simple Sicherheitslücken, die im Internet für Datenklau-Attacken ausgenützt werden.” (Gastkommentar Edgar Weippl, Wiener Zeitung)
Manuel Leitner is holding a lesson about UCC Privacy & Security in cooperation with CON.ECT. The talk is centered on multidimensional communication including audio, video, text and files. Threats endangering the privacy of the transmitted data are shown and defense strategies are presented in this talk.
Internetsicherheit, Hacker und Datenschutz Der weltweite freie Datenverkehr hat auch seine Schattenseiten: Unbekümmerte Internetuser gehen viel zu unvorsichtig mit ihren Daten um, wichtige Webseiten weisen oft ernste Schwachstellen auf, Hacker finden immer wieder neue Methoden, in Computersysteme einzudringen. Edgar Weippl (Institut für Softwaretechnik und Interaktive Systeme, TU… Read More
A Bird’s-Eye View of Optimal Codes and Symmetric Cryptography from Combinatorial Designs Dimitris E. Simos, Department of Mathematics, National Technical University of Athens, Abstract: In the past few decades, combinatorial design theory has grown to encompass a wider variety of investigations, many… Read More
Ulrich Bayer did hold a lesson on secure development of web applications at the “IKT-Zentren Akademie” of 2011. The talk included a theoretical and practical introduction to secure web application development and the most common attack vectors. (mehr…)
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). ∞