SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Today our Researcher Peter Kieseberg joins the APWG.EU eCrime CyberSecurity Symposium 2016 in Bratislava in the panel discussion on the eCrime Data Exchange. Furthermore, we are proud to be part of the APWG.EU Scientific Committee that took place today.
Edgar Weippl gave a presentation on how to engage students in information security research and explained some of the current research challenges. Read More
Casting one’s ballot is not just a right but a duty; one might argue that privacy protection requires a similar approach. Edgar Weippl in an interview with Factor. Read More
The ERCIM News No. 107 has just been published at with a special theme “Machine Learning” (The issue is available in PDF here). SBA Research contributed the article “Privacy Aware Machine Learning and the Right to be Forgotten” by Bernd Malle, Peter Kieseberg, Sebastian Schrittwieser, and Andreas… Read More
Edgar Weippl explained why applied security research is important to solve today’s and future problems; Jan Camenisch (IBM Research) showed some of his fundamental work that later lead to his Advanced ERC Grant and Dirk Helbing (ETH Zurich) picked up on the topic of New Enlightenment and emphasized… Read More
Today is the first day of the 21th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2016). Two of our researchers, Stefan Brunthaler and Johanna Ullrich, are attending; Johanna is presenting her paper on attacks exploiting Xen rate limits tomorrow. ESORICS 2016… Read More
Last Friday our researcher Peter Kieseberg presented our work in the area of “Testing Algorithms in Sensitive Data Driven Research” and related security issues on the 14th installment of the “Anwenderkonferenz Softwarequalität, Test und Innovation” (ASQT 2016) at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (University Klagenfurt). Read More
ADV organized an expert discussion on Big Data and Data Analytics jointly with the researchers from China. Edgar Weippl presented current and upcoming security and privacy challenges. 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). ∞