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Dimitris Simos highlight the great need to ensure an attack-free environment of software implementations by giving a talk about “Improving the Quality Assurance of Secure Software through Combinatorial Methods” at the Faculty of Informatics at TU Wien. The Abstract can be found… Read More
Better late than never: late last year already, Katharina defended her PhD thesis and graduated with distinction. Her thesis is substantial for the field of usable security and privacy. It spans user-centric research on a variety of topics such as smartphone authentication, Bitcoin and its user expectations, and TLS deployments. Read More
The ERCIM News No. 108 has just been published at with a special theme “Machine Learning” (The issue is available in PDF here). SBA Research contributed the article “Forensics using Internal Database Structures” by Peter Kieseberg, Edgar Weippl, and Sebastian Schrittwieser.
“Wir untersuchen das ganz genau”, betont Dabrowski, der zu den führenden IT-Sicherheitsexperten Österreichs zählt. – derstandard.at/2000050143907/Russische-Hacker-nutzten-laut-FBI-auch-Rechner-in-Wien (mehr)
Numerous members of SBA are at the CCC Congress in Hamburg. 33C3 takes place from December 27 – 30, 2017 in Hamburg, Germany and is the biggest non-commercial hacker conference worldwide with more than 11.000 people attending ever year. Martin Schmiedecker gives a talk on “Everything you always wanted to… Read More
SBA Research wünscht Ihnen im Namen aller Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter frohe Weihnachten, einen guten Rutsch ins Jahr 2017 und erholsame Feiertage! Events Overview 2017: In unserer Event-Roadmap 2017 finden Sie auf einen Blick alle SBA Konferenzen, Kurse und weitere Event-Termine. Die Roadmap wird laufend ergänzt. Read More
Elias Tsigaridas, POLSYS team, INRIA Paris, France, gave a guest talk about “Exact Algorithms for Stochastic Games and Polynomial System Solving”. Abstract This event is hosted by the IEEE CS/SMCS Austria Chapter. Read More
The results for the H2020-ECSEL-2016-2-IA call of ECSEL JU are now out and we are glad that the project proposal “SCOTT: Secure Connected Trustable Things” is ranked the second best among all submitted and is retained for co-funding by the EU H2020 program. The SCOTT consortium brings together 57 partners… Read More
The paper “Coveringcerts: Combinatorial Methods for X.509 Certificate Testing” by Kristoffer Kleine and Dimitris Simos has been accepted for publication in the 10th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2017). ICST is one of the leading conferences for software testing and validation. The results of this… Read More
From September 19 to 21, around 65 talented and curious women and FINTA* immersed themselves in the exciting world of cybersecurity at the University of Vienna. This continuing education and networking program is unique in Europe and is designed to make it easier to enter and advance in IT security. ... ∞
The 20th International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security (ARES 2025) took center stage in Ghent, Belgium, from August 11-14, 2025, offering a platform for experts and enthusiasts to explore the latest developments in the field. Co-located with ARES 2025 was the 8th International Symposium for Industrial Control System & SCADA Cyber Security Research.... ∞