SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Yesterday, Nicholas Stifter presented their paper: Johanna Ullrich, Nicholas Stifter, Aljosha Judmayer, Adrian Dabrowski and Edgar Weippl, “Proof-of-Blackouts? How Proof-of-Work Cryptocurrencies Could Affect Power Grids” at RAID 2018 in Heraklion, Crete The paper analyzes the potential impact cryptocurrency mining and its large power consumption could have on the reliable operation… Read More
Photo by Atilla Elçi The morning session started with Edgar’s Opening Keynote on Distributed Ledger Technology, Blockchain & Crypto Currencies. The topic is not only a hype area but also well-suited for graduate students to start with focused research. In the presentation Edgar showed three aspects that are… Read More
Aljosha Judmayer will be presenting his full paper at CBT 2018 in Barcelona: Aljosha Judmayer, Nicholas Stifter, Philipp Schindler and Edgar Weippl. “Enforcing rule changes through offensive forking- and consensus techniques” Full paper Moreover Alexei Zamyatin had his poster accepted at the CBT´18 workshop, held as part as… Read More
With a total of 308 participants from over 50 countries this year´s ARES & CD-MAKE broke all previous records. An acceptance rate of 22,3% along with 18 workshops, 6 of them held within the EU Projects Symposium, and 14 keynote speakers reflect the obtained success and impact. In proper ARES… Read More
Adrian Dabrowski successfully defended his PhD thesis “Security and Privacy in Large-scale Infrastructure”. Thorsten Holz and Stefanie Rinderle-Ma were the external evaluators, Matteo Maffei the committee chair and Edgar Weippl the supervisor. Congratulations!… Read More
The computer scientists Edgar Weippl and his team calculate threat scenarios for critical infrastructure and industrial plants. The findings are used to improve protection. Read more in the DiePresse. Die Presse – printed edtion… Read More
Edgar Weippl gave a presentation on Security Research in the context of NIS at Alpbach Technology Symposium’s breakout session ‘EU NIS directive and NIS act – what now?‘… Read More
The aim of this special issue is to gather latest research results concerning blockchain technology and its application on relevant scenarios, such as the ones previously listed. Researchers, experts, and scholars from both industry and academia are encouraged to present their recent achievements and research directions in this area Manuscript… 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). ∞