SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Members of SBA Research are at the Hagenberg IT Security Forum 2017. Peter Kieseberg will present about Security in Industry 4.0 and IoT. The description of his talk can be found here. See also the full agenda. Read More
Last Thursday, Katharina Krombholz visited Srdjan Capkun’s group at ETH Zurich and gave a talk on her research in usable security and privacy in the course of the ZISC lunch time seminar series. The abstract of her talk can be found here. Read More
Numerous members of SBA Research are at TROOPERS17, happening this week in Heidelberg. You can find the agenda here. If you spot one of us, chat us up!
The project “Secure Execution of Smart Contracts” (SESC) started on January 1, 2017. SESC is an R&D project supported by the BRIDGE 1 Programme of the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG). The first project consortium meeting was hosted by SBA Research on March 21, 2017. SESC focuses on research… Read More
Dimitris Simos gives a talk on “Coveringcerts: Combinatorial Methods for X.509 Certificate Testing”, a joint work with Kristoffer Kleine, on March 14, 2017 at the 10th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2017). ICST 2017 takes place during March 13-18, 2017 in Tokyo, Japan at… Read More
SBA Research will offer a series of evening trainings focusing on the hot topic “Blocks & Chains”. We will discuss specialized contents such as smart contracts, blockchain interlinking, privacy, and regulations attempts regarding cryptocurrencies. The series starts with a tutorial, covering general information about cryptocurrencies and their underlying technology. During… Read More
Dimitris Simos chairs the Sixth International Workshop on Combinatorial Testing (IWCT 2017) on March 13, 2017. He is also giving a talk on “Combinatorial Methods for Modelling Composed Software Systems” (joint with Ludwig Kampel and Bernhard Garn). IWCT 2017 takes place in Tokyo, Japan and is collocated with… Read More
Today starts the Android Security Symposium at the Technical University of Vienna, courtesy of the Josef Ressel Center u’smile. The upcoming three days are packed with presentations surrounding the entire Android security ecosystem, ranging from presentations about the security architecture of Android by Google and AT&T right this morning,… Read More
Last weekend, the SBA-supported CTF team “We_0wn_Y0u” (W0Y) of the TU Wien again showcased its outstanding capabilities. In the academic International Capture the Flag (iCTF) contest they secured the third place out of 78 participating universities worldwide in an 8-hour race. W0Y started receiving points late in the… 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). ∞