SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
CERT.at veranstaltet einmal pro Monat, jeden zweiten Mittwoch im Monat, einen “IT-Security Stammtisch” (Vortrag und anschliessendes Networken bei Speis und Trank im alten AKH). Im Mai haben wir Dr. Martin Schmiedecker (SBA) als Vortragenden gewinnen können. Titel: Moderne Incident Response Datum: 10.5.2017, 18:30 Ort: im Seminarraum des ZID, 1.Stock, Neues… Read More
Edgar Weippl presents insights on software security research at a workshop held today in Feldkirch, organized by Bachmann electronic GmbH. More information here… Read More
Katharina Krombholz will present today at the UXCamp+ Vienna on usable security and privacy challenges in a connected world. You can find the full program here.
Members of SBA Research are at Ruhrsec, happening today and tomorrow in Bochum. You can find the program here and might follow @Fr333k for live updates. Read More
Last Sunday, students and faculty of SBA Research and TU Wien participated in the 2017 RuCTF Finals competition held in Yekaterinburg, Russia, as members of the team We_0wn_Y0u. Students are primarily recruited from our “(Advanced) Internet Security” lecture series which is taught together with the Secure Systems Lab of TU… Read More
Martin Schmiedecker passed the exam to become a certified expert witness for the judicial system, for the areas of digital forensics (68.62) and computer security (68.60). Congratulations!
Scientific director Edgar Weippl has been interviewed by Austrian Broadcasting (ORF) radio channel OE1 on how to cope with password issues. The abstract of the interview can be found at www.orf.at, mobile version here.
Tomasz Miksa co-authored a whitepaper on machine-actionable data management plans (maDMPs). The whitepaper was used to seed the discussions at the 9th RDA Plenary in Barcelona, Spain and will lead to the establishment of new RDA groups. The paper is published in the open-access Research Ideas and Outcomes… Read More
The ERCIM News No. 109 has just been published at with a special theme on “Autonomous Vehicles“. SBA Research contributes two articles in the “Research and Innovation” section of the issue. The first article is by Peter Kieseberg, Peter Frühwirt, and Sebastian Schrittwieser on “Security Testing for Mobile… 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). ∞