SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Cloud Speicherdienste als Angriffsvektoren. based on our Usenix Security 2011 Paper (Dark Clouds on the Horizon: Using Cloud Storage as Attack Vector and Online Slack Space), we will present some recent updates at the Sicherheitskonferenz Krems
Manuel found and reported a vulnerability. Excerpt from the changelog (Piwik 1.6): “Security: we would like to thank the following people for their responsible disclosure: […] Secure Business Austria […] Thank you to all these people for disclosing security issues to the Piwik team, ensuring a healthy and safe… Read More
Securing XML archives for Search Based Applications (Talk by John Tait; Oct 19; 10am SBA) There has been a recent trend to produce what are known as Search Based Applications. One strand of this work is based on the observation that many organisation keep legacy transaction orientated systems up and… Read More
Clemens Kolbitsch recently finished his PhD supervised by Engin Kirda and Chris Kruegel. Tomorrow, he will present his paper “The Power of Procrastination: Detection and Mitigation of Execution-Stalling Malicious Code” at CCS 2011. Clemens will shortly join our partner company TLLOD.
“Die letzten Veröffentlichungen sind zwar relativ gewichtig, weil es sich um sensible Daten handelt, aber technisch gesehen nicht unbedingt aufwendig”, sagt Martin Mulazzani von SBA Research, einem Wiener Forschungsinstitut für IT-Security (derstandard.at)… Read More
Guest speaker Melanie Volkamer: Usable Security in the Context of Electronic Elections The subject of electronic voting has enjoyed several years of considerable interest both from election officials and IT security and cryptography researchers. The interest of election officials is based especially on the possibility to obtain fast and… 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). ∞