SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Bernhard Garn and Dimitris Simos from SBA’s MaTRIS research group (https://matris.sba-research.org/) join the 15th Workshop on Advances in Model Based Testing (A-MOST) @ ICST 2019, 22nd April 2019 (https://amost2019.github.io/). Bernhard and Dimitris also present their paper ‘Weighted Combinatorial Sequence Testing for the TLS Protocol’… Read More
Christian Kudera gave a talk “All your Fitness Data belongs to you: Reverse Engineering the Huawei Health Android App” on Easterhegg 2019. -> more Information The talk described the reversing process of the Huawei Health App. In this context, the proprietary BLE Huawei Link Protocol v2 was disclosed, which… Read More
Alexandra Mai, Stephanie Jakoubi and Nicolas Petri had a good time at the Security Forum 2019, representing SBA Research. The Security Forum took place from April 11-12, 2019 at the Fachhochschule Oberösterreich, Campus Hagenberg.
Dimitris Simos (SBA Research, MaTRIS research group) and Rick Kuhn (NIST, Computer Security Division) were invited to jointly present a tutorial on combinatorial security testing at the Defense and Aerospace Test and Analysis workshop (DataWorks 2019) on April 11th, 2019. The event takes place at Springfield, VA,… Read More
Adrian Dabrowski holds a “myth busters session” on hacking, tracking of IP addresses, secure data transfer and numerous other hot topics at the 10th IT Businesstalk in Salzburg on April 11, 2019. More information
A new study conducted by WU researchers that has been published in March 2019 provides novel insights how shootings and terror attacks affect the emotions and the corresponding communication behavior of social media users. For the study, five shootings and terror events have been analyzed that happened in… Read More
Senior researcher Johanna Ullrich has been interviewed by Austrian Broadcasting (ORF). In the TV show Eco, she explained potential security and privacy pitfalls of smart meters that are mandated by EU legislation. The show can be watched in ORF’s TVthek within the next 7 days. Link: https://tvthek.orf.at/profile/Eco/11523082/Eco/14009521
Bernhard Garn and Dimitris Simos visit the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) [NIST] during April 4-8, 2019. The purpose of the visit is to jointly host with NIST researchers (Raghu Kacker, Rick Kuhn) the 3rd SBA/NIST workshop on combinatorial security testing [CST], and to… Read More
Johanna Ullrich has been interviewed by demographieberatung.at on diversity in the field of information technology. The interview is part of the current newsletter, and can also be found here: Link: https://www.demografieberatung.at/uncategorized/das-alter-entscheidet-nicht-darueber-ob-jemand-gut-in-informatik-ist/… Read More
We are proud to celebrate the outstanding achievements of our researchers, who were recognized at the University of Vienna Faculty of Computer Science's Best-of-the-Best Awards on June 24. ∞
SBA Research was delighted to welcome FFG Managing Director Karin Tausz and Head of Division Structural Programmes Silvia Laimgruber to the SBA-K1 NGC COMET Center in Vienna. ... ∞
Our colleague Nicholas Stifter, researcher and security analyst at SBA Research, presented his conference paper titled Reuse of Public Keys Across UTXO and Account-Based Cryptocurrencies at the Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2026 in St. Kitts, USA. ... ∞