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 will be present at USENIX Security and co-located workshops like WOOT or FOCI to cover them for our PRIME partner program. If you run into them, don’t be shy to say hi.
Sebastian and Martin will present two research papers at DFRWS USA, the leading conference in digital forensics. The first one is on using nano-second timestamps for embedding steganographic information securely, titled “Time is on my side: Steganography in filesystem metadata”. You can find a preprint of the paper,… Read More
The 2016 IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability & Security (QRS 2016) was held from 01 – 03 August 2016 in Vienna, Austria, supported by SBA Research. QRS 2016 Team Mayor´s Reception Mayor´s Reception Mayor´s Reception… Read More
Dimitris Simos (SBA Research), Rick Kuhn (NIST), Jeff Yu Lei (University of Texas at Arlington) and Raghu Kacker (NIST) give a tutorial on Combinatorial Security Testing at QRS 2016. The tutorial is comprised of two parts focusing on combinatorial testing methods and their usage to security… Read More
Dimitris Simos gives a talk on August, 1 at QRS 2016 about “TLS Cipher Suites Recommendations: A Combinatorial Coverage Measurement Approach” joint work with Kristoffer Kleine (SBA Research), Artemios Voyiatzis (SBA Research), Rick Kuhn (NIST), Raghu Kacker (NIST). QRS 2016 takes place from August 1 –… Read More
Members of SBA will be present at Blackhat and Defcon. Aaron’s work with Hanno Böck, Philipp Jovanovic and Sean Devlin on nonce re-uses in TLS is scheduled to be presented at Blackhat on August 3rd, 11:30. This work is also nominated for the Pwnie for Best Cryptographic… Read More
The quarterly meeting of the SPLIT (Security Protocol Interaction Testing in Practice) project took place on July 29th, 2016 at SBA Research. SPLIT is funded under the Bridge Early Phase programme of the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG). The project aims to provide quality assurance of security… Read More
Wilfried Mayer was today on national TV and explained Tor, the dark web and how it is used world-wide by dissidents and journalists, not only by perpetrators. You can watch the segment here for the next few days. Alternatively, you can find it here. Read More
The interplay between discrete mathematics and computer science is crucial for the successful deployment of real-world applications but also necessary for the advancement of theoretical approaches and methodologies. Recently, the combinatorial security testing team of SBA Research has marked significant contributions in this regard: The paper “Algebraic Modelling… Read More
Artemios G. Voyiatzis presents today our paper “Whom you gonna trust? A longitudinal study on TLS notary services” at the 30th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2016) held in Trento, Italy. He is chairing one of the conference’s… Read More
We are proud to announce that we joined the Linux Foundation Europe, further strengthening our role within the international open-source community. With this step, we are reinforcing our commitment to advancing security and resilience in digital infrastructures. ... ∞
David Schmidt, PhD student at CD-Lab AsTra, Sebastian Schrittwieser, key researcher at SBA Research and head of the CD-Lab, and Edgar Weippl, scientific director at SBA Research and full professor for security & privacy at the University of Vienna, received the Distinguished Paper Award at ACM CCS 2025 (A*-rated) for their work Leaky Apps: Large-scale Analysis of Secrets Distributed in Android and iOS Apps. ... ∞