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 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
The ERCIM News No. 106 has just been published at http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en106 The Special Theme presents a variety of research results that show the richness and range of Cybersecurity issues and their application domains. This special theme has been coordinated by the guest editors Fabio Martinelli (IIT-CNR) and Edgar Weippl… Read More
Submission deadline is 15 July 2016! Security Rockstars – the European Information Security Start-up Competition is organized by SBA Research and supported by partners from the public and private sector. The competition’s goal is to find and support innovative ideas and solutions in the area of… Read More
The “Strengthening European Network Centres of Excellence in Cybercrime” project is funded by the European Commission under Internal Security Fund-Police 2014-2020 (ISFP). The main goal of the project is to create a single point of Reference for EU national Cybercrime Centres of Excellence and develop further the… Read More
The general objective of the Association is to support all types of initiatives or projects that aim to develop, promote, encourage European cybersecurity. Yesterday, July 5th 2016, the cybersecurity contractual Public-Private Partnership (cPPP) has been signed at the European Parliament of Strasbourg, in presence of the VP… Read More
The paper “The Beauty or The Beast? Attacking Rate Limits of the Xen Hypervisor” by Johanna Ullrich and Edgar Weippl has been accepted for publication at the 21st European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) which takes place from September, 26th-30th, 2016 in… Read More