SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
The six papers in this special issue focus on availability, reliability, and security. Some of the topics covered include prevention of identity theft, biometric technology and authentication, and security considerations for RF identification. Guest editors: Ravi Sandhu, A Min Tjoa, Edgar Weippl. (more…)… Read More
Our article “Verification, Validation, and Evaluation in Information Security Risk Management” (Authors: Stefan Fenz and Andreas Ekelhart) got accepted at IEEE Security & Privacy. Check out the preprint at the IEEE Digital Library. Abstract: Over the last four decades, various information security risk management (ISRM) approaches have emerged. However,… Read More
Abstract. In the ongoing arms race between spammers and the multi-million dollar anti-spam industry, the number of unsolicited e-mail messages (better known as “spam”) and phishing has increased heavily in the last decade. In this paper, we show that our novel friend-in-the-middle attack on social networking sites (SNSs) can be… Read More
Our researchers of ISecLab have recently released some nice papers that are quoted on slashdot (see 1 and 2). More news reports on PCWorld, BBC and darkreading.
quoted from ACM Queue: “European researchers have deposited a “digital genome” time capsule inside a data storage facility known as the Swiss Fort Knox, which contains a blueprint that future generations can use to read data stored using obsolete technology. The capsule is the result of the four-year Planets… Read More
This year’s ARES conference was a great success. We really enjoyed our two keynotes; the videos of Gene Spafford and Ross Anderson are now online! (more on keynotes…)